Dave challenged me to a slow-cooker cook off. He made some tasty pot roast during his week off. I have plans for carnitas. Yesterday's trip to the Handy Market yielded two pounds of Boston butt (aka country style ribs). But, I'm not sure if I should make it. We've made plans to look at a house at 7. The slow cookin' takes 6 hours. I'm afraid to leave something cooking while I'm not home. Ahhh, the challenge.
So, right now I am making a dinner I've never made before. It's a part of my branching out to new, tastier foods, and enjoying vacation by doing things I really like to do but have no time for in my normal life.
In an effort to avoid trichinosis, I went to the w.w.w. to look up some information about cooking time for pork.
What I found instead was a chart that made me stop for a moment.
It's a chart of a breakdown of daily caloric intake of pork, per person, by country.
1 Austria 352.8
2 Switzerland 349.6
3 Finland 343.2
4 China 331.8
5 France 301.6
6 Spain 296.3
7 Denmark 293.5
8 Poland 267.7
9 FR Yugoslavia 264.3
10 Germany 247.1
That's a lot of pork!
