The original recipe is here.

Ingredients

• 3-4 lbs pork
• 1/2 cup vinegar
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1 cup water
• 2-3 bay leaves
• 2 teaspoons whole peppercorns
• 4 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 large onion, chopped

Procedure

1. Put everything in crockpot. Cook on low for ten hours.
2. Remove meat. Shred. Remove the bay leaves from the sauce. Run the sauce through a strainer to remove the peppercorns. Recombine the sauce with the meat.

Results

This turned out okay. Next time I would put the peppercorns in cheese cloth so that they can be removed more easily. The original recipe adds some pepper and salt. I forgot them, but the recipe was quite salty enough as is. It's not my favorite recipe ever, but it is certainly edible.

I'm attempting to make green chile, and I decided on this recipe. You will notice the quantities of chile. It was only after I was half way through chopping the green chiles that I realized they probably meant canned green chiles, not fresh, so this time I'm really doing it quite differently than the author probably intended. So here's today's version.

Ingredients

2 pounds pork, diced
1 cup onion, chopped
14 oz. chicken broth

1½ teaspoons garlic powder
2 ½ tablespoons chicken stock
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 tablespoon cornstarch
½ teaspoon oregano
1 tablespoon cumin
½ tablespoon jalapeno
10 oz. green enchilada sauce
27 oz. green chili, fresh, chopped
8 oz. green chili, fresh, skins sweated off, pureed
1 teaspoon salt
Habanero hot sauce as needed

Procedure

1. Brown pork and drain Add onion & chicken broth (will not cover meat). Simmer 1 hour, stirring often.
2. Add spice mix and a cup of hot water. Add chopped green chiles. Simmer 1 hour stirring often to avoid sticking.
3. Add green enchilada sauce and stir. Simmer ½ hour.
4. Add 8 oz. Green chili, pureed. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Wow, despite my mess up, this turned out great.

Next time definitely use canned chiles. Although the un-roasted, unpeeled green chiles produced a nice flavor, the remaining bits of outer membrane are not ideal for texture.

Pre-marinated pork roasts from Costco are very tasty and super easy to make. Just an hour in the oven. Essentially no prep.

The instructions say to cook it for 35 minutes. That's ridiculous. A single pork loin takes an hour at that temperature.

2015-10-04: I cooked two 2.5 lb Costco tenderloins at once. It took 70 minutes (including opening the oven once to check the doneness). Next time I would cook them for 65 minutes without opening them.