Pulled Pork Tacos

Prep Time:                                                                    Ready In:
10 Min                                                             3 hours 30 minutes

 

A festive way to enjoy flavorful pork.

 

Ingredients

• 3 pounds pork shoulder
• 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with mild green chilies
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup apple juice
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
• 16 (6 inch) corn tortillas
• 4 ripe avocados, peeled, seeded and sliced
• 1 cup tomatillo salsa (or salsa Verde)
• 1 cup Daisy Brand Sour Cream

Directions

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the pork in a 4 quart Dutch oven. Combine the tomatoes, onion, apple juice, lime juice, garlic, chili powder and salt in a medium bowl. Pour the mixture over the pork and cover. Bake the roast for 3 to 3 1/2 hours or until the pork is very tender.
2. Remove the pork from the pan and cool slightly. Remove any fat or bones and shred the pork with a fork. Strain the pan juices and return the tomatoes and onions to the Dutch oven. Add the pork to the sauce and mix well. Skim the fat from the pan juices. If the pork is dry, moisten with a little additional juice.
3. Wrap the tortillas in aluminum foil and heat for about 15 minutes or until warm. Place 1/4 cup meat on each tortilla. Top each taco with avocado slices, tomatillo salsa and a dollop of sour cream.

What is he thinking?

Dear Friends,

What is God thinking of you today? Many of us go to considerable lengths to avoid such questions, which is profoundly sad because God has gone to great lengths to make clearly known to you his thoughts about his children.

Furthermore, he has taken extreme measures to make it possible for you to face such scrutiny with quiet, even sublime, confidence. But I’m getting way ahead of myself.

Back to the question. Does it make you squirmy? Perhaps smug? In either case, it’s likely that you are projecting onto God your own attitudes and feelings toward yourself.

Blaise Pascal commented: “God made man in his own image and man returned the compliment.”

If you feel hateful toward yourself, are you not likely to believe that God does the same? When you’re pleased with your disciplines, do you assume that God is duly impressed?

Does disappointment with your flaws and failures lead to the conclusion that God is too upset to listen to you? Ever feel smeared with shame and afraid to approach God until you’ve managed to assume a more noble posture?

All of us are prone to this, but that doesn’t make it true.

A vitally important aspect of Christian discipleship is to help others think truthfully about themselves, an impossibility apart from learning to do so ourselves, whether our lives are sailing smoothly or falling through the cracks.

Brennan Manning, in his wonderful book Abba’s Child, writes: “In human form Jesus revealed to us what God is like. He exposed our projections for the idolatry that they are and gave us the way to become free of them.

“It takes a profound conversion to accept that God is relentlessly tender and compassionate toward us just as we are–not in spite of our sins and faults…but with them. Though God does not condone or sanction evil, he does not withhold his love.”

You have a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, and love that keeps no score of wrongs even though his heart is broken by your pretension and forgetfulness.

To the extent that you love yourself compassionately, intensely and freely, allowing the relentless truth and tenderness of the gospel to override your self-evaluation, you will think of yourself as God does–truthfully.

Learning to live in truth,
AmiLynne

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