Mr. Pibb + Pork = Crazy Delicious
So it’s gettin’ near lunch — time to make some burritos.
Let’s put in something weird!
Like a big bag of Cheetos?
That’s gross!
Yeah I know – hey this’ll satisfy your wishes: Mr. Pibb + Pork = Crazy Delicious!
Yes we know. There is a special place in hell reserved for us for this post.
Never mind that until the execs at NBC got pissy about it, Lonely Island’s Lazy Sunday clip was in heavy rotation on my YouTube favorites (along with Hasselhoff’s Hooked on a Feeling, so now you really know I’m going to burn in hell), truth be told, Mr Pibb and pork do indeed make a burrito Crazy Delicious.
What, you ask? Soft drinks in food? Are you insane? Oh, if only I could find photographic evidence of Iron Chef Chen’s Cola stewed piglet…
I mean, holy crap, someone even wrote an entire book about it. Look: Classic Cooking with Coca-Cola
The trick is to just not tell your snobby food friends that you dumped a can of Coke into your stew, right Chen? (Hey, don’t knock it; he won that episode.)
Chopper’s Crazy Delicious Burritos
makes four big honkin’ ones
For the pico de gallo
- 3 Roma tomatoes
- 1/2 white onion
- 1 bunch curly parsley
- Juice of one lime
- Salt, pepper, garlic powder to taste
Dice tomatoes, onion, and parsley to the size you want and mix in the rest.
For the rice
- 2 ounces butter
- 2 cups jasmine rice
- 3 cups water
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped garlic
Blend all ingredients together thoroughly and cook it up in a rice cooker.
For the pork filling
- 1 1/2 pound pork loin roast
- 1/2 pound lard
- 1 1/2 cup Mr. Pibb
- 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
- 2 teaspoons coriander seeds
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 2 chipotles, minced
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon dried epazote
- 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
Toast and grind cumin and coriander seeds.
Melt lard and mix together with Mr. Pibb.
Bring to simmer in a large pot and add pork. Then bring to a low simmer and add remaining ingredients. Simmer for 3 to 4 hours.
Roll it all up into four big honkin’ soft tortillas with the rice, the pico de gallo, and:
- Black beans
- Sour cream or plain yogurt
- Avocado slices
Or whatever the heck else you want!
See? Now from this photo above (which is, by the way, the Worst Photo of Mrs. D Ever to Grace the Internet), you can just tell that these burritos were Crazy Delicious. We are stuffing ourselves. So much so, that we’re too full to rap about it.
Which is probably a very good thing because that bit at the beginning of this post was plenty.
Just be glad — oh, so very glad — that we haven’t mastered the art of podcasting. Yet.
Oh gosh this is sooo kinky!
What a hoot your post is- glad to know that others get burrito high too :)
That looks outstanding. And the avocado slices sure don’t hurt. I don’t know if I’d do Mr. Pibb, though. Doesn’t that taste sort of like Dr. Pepper??? Pepsi and Cream Soda. Hmmm. I bet it tenderizes the meat, too.
You look like you’re both enjoying them. Did your four legged friends get any?
You guys have wayyyyyy to much fun. But that’s what I like about ya. The burritos look awesome. I’ll have to send this post to my sister in TN. She loves Mexican and loves Dr. Pepper (which does resemlbe Pibb) so this recipe is prefect for her.
Did you give any to Platelicker?
Two things:
1. Seeing as how you’re not ashamed to boast about cooking Pibbily, I was going to mention that some great chefs are brazenly using ketchup these days too. But darn, Chopper beat me to it.
2. Adorable photo. But, I mighta gone with a — oh, let’s see — *pink* hat! :D
3. (can’t count; congenital math-phobe) I had three burritos the day before yesterday, and two yesterday. I don’t know what’s going on.
Hahaha. Everyone’s so concerned about the animals! :-)
Nope. None for the poochie. Seriously, it tasted far too good for us to share.
B’gina: yup, Mr. Pibb is (I believe) the Coca-Cola Co’s rival product to Dr. Pepper (which is from the 7-up Co.) I like Dr. Pepper better, but since this was, in part, an homage to Lonely Island’s Mr. Pibb bit (which I’d post a link to if I could find one), we had to stick with the Pibbster.
Burrito high. Huh, McA. I never thought about it that way, but you may be onto something…
Hah! CC, Chopper, I kid you not, said “someone’s gonna nail me for that ketchup.”
I KNEW you were going to mention the HAT. In my defense (and it’s a good one), our burrito project occured just prior to the arrival of the hat, so, in fact, there was no pink hat to be had!
I promise you, next photos of me with hat? The hat will be PINK.
So was the pork then shredded after the pork roast cooked for several hours? Do you think this would work in a crockpot? Yum! gotta try it.
Hey Cyndi,
Chopper started with the pork in strips (see the photo just above the recipe), and after four hours in the pot it really didn’t need more than a bit of poking with a fork to fall apart. I’d think this would work in a crockpot just fine. Chopper says it might take a couple extra hours but the flavor would be even better.
… hold on … eating jalapenos with lunch and just picked nose. Hooboy. Hey, that’s not too bad, it’s cold out and my sinuses just cleared up.
PORK & SODA !!!
Jeez you guys, what’s next? Roasting a pork sirloin wrapped in foil tucked over an exhaust manifold in your truck?
Biggles
Biggles. You realize what you’ve just done, right?
I mean, we’ve got my dad’s old minivan and not a truck, but…
Parsley instead of cilantro in the pico de gallo? Blasphemous!
To each his own, James.
Either works, and some folks (certain members of this household included) cannot eat cilantro.
I know, I know. No cilantro in the pico. I did it mostly because two out of three people around me dislike cilantro, and I also feel that parsley has a more “green” flavor to it, while cilantro tastes more complex. I didn’t want to hide the flavor of the pork, which was already competing with the rice, and the avocado.
sounds a little.. uh..interesting but I have to say those burritos look fantastic. Love the raping/stuffing photo too.