Stick a Pin in it: Sweet Pulled Pork Knock-Off

This morning I stumbled out of bed wanting to throw together a post I  finished last night and it wouldn't let me add additional photos--I begged and pleaded, but to no avail.

So between my blogger debacle and Punk smashing blueberries in the carpet I felt that I needed to calm my nerves with a Dr. Pepper.

Thanks, Doc you always know how to make a girl feel better.

;)

Have you ever eaten at a Cafe Rio?

It's a fun little Mexican/Southwestern eatery that boasts itself on mouth watering flavors and a dish to satisfy almost palette.  

We Montana (aka Bozeman) folks don't believe in being up-to-date on the latest and greatest in the culinary cuisine so I usually have to wait until I go to Great Falls or to Utah to devour a Cafe Rio dish.

So when we do have a craving for something "exotic" it requires the use of knock-off cooking.

My cousin found a great recipe for Cafe Rio's famous cilantro ranch dressing and after searching I was also able to find a fun recipe for their sweet pulled pork.

The menu of choice last night was the Cafe Rio Sweet Pork Salad with some fun substitutions.

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I found a great recipe on Pinterest from a cute blog called Favorite Family Recipes.

They broke down the meal into easy steps with directions on how to make sweet pulled pork, cilantro lime rice, and cilantro ranch dressing.

Delish my friends, delish.

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The recipe was initially for a pulled pork salad but we decided to put our meal in homemade hard taco shells.

Super easy and quick, and totally worth it.

Thanks for stopping by, and if you happen to cook a great knock-off meal I would love to hear about it!

Also, for those of you that are new to Spunky Junky feel free to link up tutorials, recipes, and ideas that you have found using inspiration from Pinterest!

I love when we can all have new "pinspirations!"

Link rules:

*Link to a specific post

*Make sure the post is about an idea gained from Pinterest!

Weekly Steal: Mum Ring

Good day friends!

I hope your Tuesday is going well. Punk and I got caught up on The Bachelor drama for the week.

Seriously, that Courtney chick is making me want to pull my own hair out. Am I the only one that thinks she is ca-razy!

:)

Anywho.....This week's steal is the medium size mum ring. Super cute and lovely.

The ring is originally $12.00 and is now on sale for $5.00.

Have fun shopping!

24/40

Coat//Apostraphe, Jeggings//Target, Shoes//Vera Wang

World War III is going on in my house today.

Brecken saw his blanket in the washing machine and instantly needed to have it. I told him he had to wait until it was dried.

He then proceeded to stand, nose pressed to the dryer window, for 30 minutes screaming until I let him and his blanket reunite.

Dramatic, very dramatic.

Heaven help me when this girl gets here.

The Weekend.

 Day 20// Over the last few weeks I have been spending all of my spare time making gobs of headbands. Tons of fun I tell ya.

 Day 21//I turned 27 yesterday.

Not really a big birthday, but one year closer to the big 3-0. I told my Dad that I remembered when he turned 30, he said that's when he stopped counting.

;)

I remember when I was little that I could hardly sleep the night before my birthday. My Mom always tried to make it a fun event since it seemed like I would always get jipped since my birthday was so close to Christmas.

I would get a party a Chucky Cheese, lots of friends invited to the event, and the satisfaction of getting all those gifts that I didn't score at Christmas time.

Now, I crave more simple pleasures--quiet time and freedom. Go figure, right?

My day:

6:30 Hunk left to go ice fishing

6:30 I got up and took a long bath without a disturbance.

7:15 Woke up Punk. Made breakfast

8:15 Dropped Punk off with Hunk so they could go ice fishing together.

8:40 Massage

10:15 girl shopping at the Gap

11:30 returns at the mall

11:45 Surprise Birthday luncheon for my Mother-in-law

2:00 My shopping without kids.

2:45 Home to cuddle my boys, got beautiful roses from John and plans to make a new bed (YAY!)

3:45 Shower

4:30 Dropped Punk off at Kelty's house

5:15 Dinner at the Rib and Chop House

7:00 MSU Boys Basketball Game without the kid

9:00 Picked up the Punk

10:00 Read a great book, fell asleep in the middle of a chapter ;)

Day 22// John and Brecken often come home from church and crash for a couple of hours.

This time is great for me to catch up on my reading, stalk my usual blogs, and lay around spending some time by myself.

As you can see I was wildly productive today.

;)

365 Project: Day 18 & 19

 My Momma kind of rocks.

Even though I have a husband and a kid of my own she still takes care of me.

I mentioned to her the other day that I was craving the world's best chocolate--and what do you know. Two days later I received a package in the mail with these lovelies waiting to be devoured; very sinful I might add.

She notices little details--if we make note of something in passing that we want, she remembers and surprises us with it.

She still hides Easter eggs for us and makes us take turns when opening our stockings, and occasion we may still tattle on each other to my Mom.

Shameful, I know.

But this lady is great and I love her bunches.

Momma, you are totally cool and the chocolates are heavenly.

John bought us season tickets to go watch Montana State Men's Basketball.

He loves watching them, Punk loves running the halls, so it means that I can be found ducking in and out of the game the entire time.

I think I got as much of a workout as the basketball players--and I guarantee none of them were pregnant and needed to pee every ten minutes....