The Bad: Starting the day with news that the speaker presenting four hours of my class this afternoon wasn’t feeling well and not coming in.
The Good: Being awesome and just taking over the four hour section impressing my boss even though it was really no big deal.
The Ridiculous: Getting more news at work that our company was….not sold. Kind of. An anticipated sale came – of almost every banner except ours and some small regional chains. This could be an indicator that the company is focusing on being a wholesale distributor again and focusing less on operating their own retail ops. Which could be fine. But still, not at all the expected news.
The Bad: My Christmas tree is still up. I feel some shame over this.
The Good: Forgetting that you put a pork roast in the crock pot this morning until about 5 minutes before you got home so I was pleasantly surprised dinner was ready!
The Even Better: Deciding NOT to go to that movie after work because that pork roast would have been in there a really long time then.
The Bad: Trying to take pictures of meat with a camera phone because my real camera battery is dead.
The Good: This Pioneer Woman recipe for pork roast. Mine has yet to come out like her pictures, but she turns her occasionally while it’s cooking and uses a LOT more chipotle pepper and adobo sauce than I do. Still, it comes out delicious and today, I made it even more so!
The Ridiculous: Making a 6 lb pork roast for a single gal. Seriously. A 6 lb pork roast yields 3 lbs of delicious shredded pork. I weighed it.
The Bad: Nearly ruining my appetite with hummus and pretzels while I was shredding delicious pork roast.
The Good: Making sauce! I pulled some of the liquid out of the the crockpot after I pulled all the meat out of the crock pot to shred. There were onions and chipotle peppers and adobo sauce and goodness that I ladled into a small sauce pot and started boiling so it would reduce and thicken. (And – in true happiness project style I unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher while the sauce cooked. Don’t waste small amounts of time! Also, a watched sauce never reduces.) I threw in a tablespoon or so of brown sugar and 1/4 cup of pomegranate juice to sweeten it up.
The Ridiculous: Not needing a plate at all really because I just kept dipping shredded pork into the sauce and eating it over the stove.
The Good: Combining delicious shredded pork, perfectly smoky and sweet sauce and a sweet potato!
The Ridiculous.
The End.
