Cafe Rio Sweet Pork and Dressing

5 lbs pork roast
1-2 liters Dr. Pepper
3 cloves garlic
1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. cumin
3 or 4 shakes of Tabasco

Cook roast in crockpot with all of the above ingredients overnight or all day until it falls apart. Let meat cool for bit and shred.

Add:
1 bottle red taco sauce
1/2-1 cup brown sugar -to desired sweetness
Salt and pepper to taste.
Mix together and let simmer in pan for a few minutes.

Lime dressing with cilantro
1 buttermilk ranch dressing packet
2 tomatillos
1 jalepeno
1/2 bunch cilantro
1 garlic clove
1 lime, juice
*in substitution of tomatillos and jalepenos, may use tomatillo sauce with jalepenos.

Make ranch as directed on packet. Food process or blend tomatillos, cilantro, garlic and jalepeno with a little bit of the dressing. Squeeze lime juice into mixture.

To complete the meal, buy uncooked tortillas, lettuce, tomatos, tortilla chips, beans and/or rice.

Easy Breaded Parm Chicken

3 Chicken breasts, cut into tender size pieces
1 jar any kind of pasta sauce (Alfredo, Tomato, etc.)
*2 C Bread crumbs or a few slices of whole wheat bread
1 C Parmesan (preferably grated)
Any kind of pasta

Heat oven to 350. Mix bread crumbs and parmesan in medium size bowl. Empty 3/4 jar of pasta sauce into a seperate bowl. Cover each piece of chicken in sauce and then cover it in bread crumbs. Place on nonstick cookie sheet. Bake for 20-25 minutes -- until chicken is done. Serve with desired pasta and vegetables. Pour the rest of the sauce (from jar, not the bowl you dipped the raw chicken in!) over pasta.

*To make bread crumbs, place 3 or 4 broken up slices of bread in blender or food processor.

My invention: Buffalo Chicken Meals

After preparing a few ingredients, I mixed them up in different ways to give me buffalo chicken salad, buffalo chicken burritos, and buffalo chicken quesadillas. I'm sure you can figure out how I came about the different variations of meals. Each meal was wonderful and didn't taste like leftovers (even though they were).

2 chicken breasts, cooked and cut into small cubes
1 red bell pepper (chopped)
1 onion (chopped)
1/2 bag of mini carrots (chopped --should equal the amount of onions chopped)
Salt
Pepper
Brown Rice
*Optional chopped garlic

After cooking chicken, drench in buffalo hot sauce. With a little water, saute chopped pepper(s), onion(s) and carrots. Add garlic, salt and pepper to taste.  Make some rice and then you are done!

For a salad, mix this in with some salad greens. Use ranch dressing.

For burritos, use tortillas and top with some cheese (beans optional -- I can't stand beans, but Chandler added some and he liked it).

And last but not least, we grilled up some quesadillas as left overs with the chicken, veggies and rice along with some cheese of course. Then we dipped it in some ranch...Very yummy!