RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Oven Roasted Carnitas

I knew that I had a established myself as a deadly serious Mexican cook when I rolled into the Rio Grande Valley roughly 30 years ago and blew the minds of a couple dozen natives with my carnitas recipe.

It was a family reunion, puro la raza, and I was the only gringo there. The tias and abuelitas were gathered in the kitchen making all the tortillas, rice and beans from scratch but I had been entrusted with the carnitas.

Here’s how I became, as they put it, an honorary Mexican

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