For breakfast, bacon and homemade buttermilk waffles found here
and for dinner, 3 hour slow braised texan carnitas with apple cabbage slaw found here.
in the cast iron pot simmering in orange & lime with salted water for 2 hours and browning in its own fat for 1 hour....
best way to cook fatty pork. ever.
i will mention that i sent jared out to get the groceries and he came back with 2 lbs of pork tenderloin...which i can't use for carnitas. he returned for pork butt or shoulder and came back with 7 lbs (!!) of pork shoulder. the next people to come visit us is getting some sort of pork dish because i had to cut the shoulder in half and now i have 2 lbs of tenderloin and 3 lbs of shoulder sitting in the freezer. yikes!!
after all that, plus a little studying on my part (topics : adolescence and transitions into adulthood) we took a quick walk around the neighborhood with the dog in the sun.
my doctor gave me his catholic version of a guilt trip for not exercising (at all) during my first trimester but it didn't affect me because i already had been feeling pretty bad already. this short 20 minute walk took a toll on my body. feet are currently propped, heating pad plugged in, hands held over my head, and hot tea. it's official, i am pregnant, my hands and feet got swollen from walking, and i can't bend over without grunting, if at all.
