After a weekend of marathon cooking with my son Anthony, I’m drinking a bottle of Hess Select Cabernet Sauvignon and watching one of my favorite movies: Chef.
I love this movie. I’ve always been a fan of Jon Favreau - I mean who isn’t? Swingers? Elf? Very Bad Things? Come on! The music and the food regularly inspire me to get off the couch and cook for hours, which is what I did this weekend.
Anthony and I spent Friday night and all day Saturday cooking our butts off. We made gravy, pot roast, pulled pork and lemon chicken orzo soup. We started with the pot roast on Friday night which cooked for about eight hours in the slow cooker. Saturday morning we were up and cooking by 9am. Our gravy turned out awesome (ask my expert tasters, Diego and Lili) and we both walked away with about five servings (meals) EACH of gravy. The pulled pork has actually become one of my signature dishes: pork shoulder cooked for seven hours at 300 degrees with a rub of roasted chili oil, dry mustard, paprika, cumin, cayenne, salt and pepper. Right out of the oven, as tacos or in sandwiches, as is or with BBQ sauce, it makes my mouth water.
But, despite everything I made, what I really want to eat right now is Cubano. I’m watching John Leguizamo prepare Mojo Pork Cubanos right now and I’m obsessed! That is the next recipe I’m going to tackle. Bakespace has published a list of the recipes from Chef on-line. All you have to do is create an account and you can access six recipes. Make sure to download the soundtrack first, because you can’t make Mojo Pork Cubanos without that music playing in the background. Stay tuned for a future post on how my Cubanos turned out!
Until then, listen to one of my favorite songs from the movie!