The Adventures of 'The Kidds'

Last week, Don’s uncle Jim came for a visit before we all went to a family reunion in West Virginia. Anyway, he brought with him a full rack of pork ribs (really 2 racks, still connected in the middle) for us to cook on the grill (took up the whole grill cooking surface!). There was a ton of leftovers…we had some for lunch but we still had a sizable amount left.

Because the smoky flavor of the yummy ribs (for some reason) brought to mind Chipotle’s carnitas burrito bowl, I thought it might be good to use the leftover ribs with the same flavors, but in soup form. It turned out great–here’s the recipe.

1 large onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
About 3 cups of leftover rib meat, chopped into small pieces
1 can (14.5 oz) RedGold petite diced tomatoes with chipotle
1 can (14.5) RedGold petite diced tomatoes
1 can black beans
1 can great northern beans
1 can golden sweet corn
4 cups of chicken broth

Saute onions and garlic in olive oil, add everything else, and simmer for about 30 minutes. Top with Fritos and cheese if desired.

It turned out great! If we weren’t making it for kiddos, we would probably have added more spice using diced jalapenos and possibly an actual chipotle pepper in adobe sauce. And added a dash of lime juice and some chopped cilantro. But these were the ingredients we had handy, and it worked pretty well Yummy.

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So Corrine and I have been trying all kinds of Pizza lately, probably, cause it’s so easy to just call the pizza place especially cause they are offering such cheap pizza deals, but we have also been trying frozen pizza.  Now we have had some pretty bad frozen ones, I know you know the ones we are talking about.  The ones that looks and almost taste like cardboard.

I got an email a few weeks ago, about Tony’s Pizza and they were giving away coupons for free pizza.  I jumped on that quick, I mean we just had a baby, I’ll go for anything that is cheap or free.  We were like that before Daniel, but we are even more frugal now.  Anyway I filled out the form and in the mail a few days ago arrived several coupons for free Tony’s Pizza, (I might send you some, if you tell me what you do for pizza night)  Anyway we got the coupons, and I took one to the store and tried it. Continue Reading »