One of my favorite memories of my grandmother is her potroast Sunday's. Not only is this one of my fond memories, but also those of my family to this day talks it up with smiles, and laughter. Grandma was a great cook, in fact she taught a lot of us how to cook, not by instruction but by watching and by default. I miss my grandmother dearly, and I miss the feeling being around a large table full of family and delicious food. Every now and then, I recreate my grandmother's dishes however have found that she used to use a lot of sodium and lard in her cooking, so I subsitute that with fresh herbs, root vegtables and olive oil. Above is a photograph of my recreation of a Sunday meal minus the heavy fatty gravy, canned veggies (corn, green beans), over boiled broccoli slathered in cheese and tortillas.
My meal is a lean shoulder roast seasoned and spiced with kosher salt, fresh ground black pepper, onion, garlic and green peppers, then cooked for 3-4 hours on a low setting (300) degree oven.
My sides consist of mashed red potatoes with some skin left on, low fat milk, real butter, kosher salt, pepper and rosemary. I also added fresh roasted carrots and corn off of the cob. My gravy is only the juice of the potroast thickened then poured over the meat, and potatoes.
This meal is probably one of the most impressionable meals from my child hood. If you have any questions about a recipe, I will share with you.
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Reading this makes me think about my Grandma and her bad ass food she use to make. I remember as I would sit there eating she would just keep warming up tortillas and throwing them on my plate. Andale coma mijo, coma!
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