I have a confession…I love easy dinners. Like stupid easy. Like if my children knew how to work the can opener they could make this dinner, easy. It came from this cookbook that I have had for enough years now that I don’t even remember where I got it, but you can get it on Amazon. The cookbook is Betty Crocker Come Home To Dinner: 350 Delicious Recipes For The Slow Cooker, Bread Machine, And Oven. It has so many delicious and wonderfully easy recipes for people like me who want to look like they slaved away in the kitchen all day, without actually having to.
So this last weekend the hubby and I went grocery shopping at WinCo. We were in town and thought what they heck! They were having an amazing sale on pork butt roasts (or was it shoulder…i can’t remember, it’s all the same to me). So we decided to grab a big hunk of pork and figure out what to do with it later. If we had been thinking we would have grabbed a bottle of bbq sauce and that would have been the end of it, but we didn’t so I have had a hunk (although now it is a third of a giant hunk since the rest is in the freezer) of pork in my fridge for a couple few days and it was time to do something with it. Hello, easy cookbook!
I checked the cupboards and wouldn’t you know I had everything I needed to make Pork Tortilla Soup. It is so good, and a real hit in my house! For this you will need:
- 2 cans of beans, rinsed
- 1 can of tomatoes with chilis, undrained
- 1 packet of taco seasoning
- 1 box of chicken stock (32 oz)
- tortilla chips or corn tortillas, crumbled or cut up into bite size pieces
- 3 lbs ~ pork, cut into 1 inch cubes
You seriously just dump everything into the crock pot (or the soup pot if you’re like me and broke your crock pot at the first sign of fall, a very sad story for another day) and let it sit until dinner time, 6-8 hours. See I told you it was easy. Maybe I will teach the kids how to use the can opener…
One of the best parts of this meal is that it is allergy free! Our son is dairy free and this is something even he can eat! It is also super versatile, and while hubby and I like to eat it as soup (with some crumbled chips and shredded cheese on top) the kids like to take the pork and beans and have nachos! No matter how you eat it, it is delicious!
