Copycat Cafe Rio Sweet Pork Salad

Creamy Lime Cilantro Dressing from Our Best Bites:

Ingredients:

• 1 pack (1oz) Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix (ignore directions on packet)
• 1C mayo
• 1/2 C buttermilk (or milk works, too)
• 1 lime
• 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
• 1/2 C roughly chopped cilantro
• 1/4 C green salsa
• hot sauce

Instructions:

1. Place milk, mayo, and ranch mix in a blender. Juice the lime in there too, you should get about 2T juice.
2. Toss in the garlic, cilantro and green salsa. Blend 'er up.
3. Sample it and add hot sauce to taste.
4. Make it several hours ahead of time to allow it to thicken.

Cilantro Lime Rice from Our Best Bites:

• 1 cup dry white rice, cooked in 2 C water.
• 2 T real butter
• Juice from 1 large lime, or two smaller ones(taste as you go, I add a lot!)
• ½ – ¾ C chopped fresh cilantro
• Salt and pepper to taste

Cook rice.As soon as it’s done, toss in the butter and stir to melt.Add lime juice, pineapple, and cilantro.Stir to combine, and then add salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.

* You’ll want to serve this right away, if you don’t, the flavors tend to mellow a bit and you’ll probably need to add more lime juice because the rice kind of sucks it up.If you’re not quite ready to eat when your rice finishes cooking, just toss in the butter and keep a lid on it so it stays warm.Then right before you serve it, toss it all together.

Sweet Pork Barbacoa from One Good Thing by Jillee:

INGREDIENTS

• 2 pounds pork (I like to use the pork butt – my butcher concurs)
• 2 cans Coke (NOT diet)
• ½ c. brown sugar
• ½ tsp garlic salt
• ¼ c. water
• 1 can diced green chiles
• ¾ of a 14 oz can enchilada sauce
• 1 c. brown sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Put the pork in a reclosable bag to marinate, pour in one of the cans of Coke and ½ c. brown sugar. Marinade for a few hours or overnight.
2. Drain marinade and put pork, ½ can of Coke, water, and garlic salt in crock pot on high for about 3-4 hours. Remove pork from crock pot, drain off liquid, shred pork.
3. Mix together (in a bowl or in the blender) other ½ can of Coke, can of chiles, enchilada sauce and brown sugar.
4. Put shredded pork back in the crock pot, cover with sauce, heat just until warmed through.