Here is a recipe
that screams Utah.
It’s Cafe Rio Pork
and it’s so delicious.
I made up the recipe
because I couldn’t find one that was good enough.
Yeah, I’m an awesome cook.
What can I say?
I lived in the South for 10 years.
It gives me the advantage.
I also like to keep it simple in the kitchen.
Throw the following ingredients into a crock pot.
3 pounds pork roast
2 cans cola (you can use diet or regular. I prefer Dr. Pepper but Coke or Pepsi or Shasta or generic is fine.)
About 1 cup and a handful of brown sugar (just go with it, but you can omit this if you want pork less sweet)
3/4 cup water
2 cubes Chicken Boullion
3 Tablespoons minced garlic
1/2 cup dried onion
1/3 cup taco seasoning.
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Cook for 6 hours.
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Shred the pork into the liquids right inside the crockpot.
Cook another 2 hours.
Serve over hot fresh tortillas from Costco.
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Try the recipe.
And come back and tell me how amazingly Utah I’ve become.
I didn’t want to do it.
I didn’t want to turn into one of them.
But I have to admit
it ain’t half that bad.
I’m a Utah Mormon blogger.
Well, if you can still call me a blogger.
Since I don’t really blog anymore.
I took the following photo yesterday.
It pretty much tells the story.
I set up the photo myself
on MANUAL settings
because I have just loved my photography class.
You can’t be a good Utah Mormon lady
unless you are are enrolled in some kind of class,
right?
And you definitely can’t be a good
Utah Mormon mommy blogger
unless you know how to photograph.
I took the photo after running into the shot.
My camera was supported by a boulder
on the opposite side of the trail.
And look at us.
We are so cute.
Notice my Utah fashionable hat.
And my frame 35 pounds lighter
because I run every other day.
My kids are perfection.
Even my dog is perfection.
My husband is the bomb.
I love him so much,
and he’s perfection too.
Just for me.
Now, I wonder how many people
I’ve managed to annoy?
What I don’t want to tell you is
I set up the picture to hide my fat butt.
We went to the canyon
on a Sunday
NOT in our Sunday clothes
just to get a picture of the leaves.
Notice the photo
is lack of any oranges or reds.
My kids have rebelled against
family bike rides in the same canyon because
I made them ride all the way
to Bridal Veil from our house once.
Apparently 20 miles round trip is a bit much.
O.k. I don’t think its that far,
but still,
I can’t get them to want to go.
I threw the hat on because I took a photo
earlier that day at church
and my hair was atrocious.
Is that the right spelling of
atrocious?
I guess I have a ways to go
to be the perceived perfect Utah Mormon.
I think they all probably have a ways to go too.
alice w. gold 
1. You look so good!
2. Cracking me up with the perfect appearance, then you dish the behind the scenes imperfections.
3. Got the half-tee the other day and I love! Thank you!
I love your family photo! You look super skinny and your boobs are huge! Maybe if I lost weight my boobs could look huge but chances are they would just disappear entirely.
I am NOT a Cafe Rio girl… but the pork sounds yummy… especially since it's dinnertime.
ToOdLeS.
Love you Sheila. I wish my ladies would shrink with the rest of my body as they just seem to get bigger and bigger. LOL
I do want to try this recipe. By taco seasoning, do you mean the powder that I buy in envelope-packets, or taco sauce? AnneMarie
Thanks for sharing this recipe, Alice. It was very tasty, and easy too. My only complaint is that Removing the fat during the shredding process took me about an hour. Do you have a better method?