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Friday, May 28, 2010

Chili Verde Recipes - Slow Cooker Chili Verde

Here's a quick and easy chili verde recipe that you can serve as a soup or over chimichangas.


3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 tablespoon garlic pepper

3 pounds pork picnic roast

1 large onion, diced

1 (14.5 oz.) can chicken broth

2 (4 oz.) cans diced green chilies, drained

3 (7 oz.) cans green salsa

2 (15.5 oz.) cans great Northern beans, drained (optional)

Directions


In a slow cooker, pour in half of the Worcestershire sauce and half of the garlic pepper. Place the roast inside of the pan and sprinkle the remaining Worcestershire sauce and garlic pepper over the top of the meat. Add in the onions and chilies. Pour the chicken broth over all. Cover and cook on low heat for 8 to 10 hours.


When the roast is fork tender (you can pull it apart with a fork), stir in the green salsa and beans. Continue cooking until heated completely.

=> Chili Verde Recipes: Chili Verde Stew

This spicy chili verde recipe features roasted pork, salsa, green chilies, spices and fresh jalapeno pepper. Remember to wear rubber or plastic gloves when handling fresh hot peppers, and don't touch your face or eyes while handling.


3/4 pound boneless pork roast, cut into 1-inch cubes

1 tablespoon canola oil

1/4 cup green pepper, chopped

1/4 teaspoon garlic, minced

1/4 cup dry red wine or beef broth

1 cup canned diced tomatoes

1/2 cup salsa

2 tablespoons canned chopped green chilies, divided

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

1/4 teaspoon sugar

1 dash ground cloves

2 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced

1 small jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped

Directions


In a large saucepan, cook the pork in oil over medium heat until it no longer looks pink; remove the meat from the pan and set aside.


In the same pan, sauté the green pepper, onion and garlic for 1 to 2 minutes, or until they are tender. Stir in the pork, wine or broth, tomatoes, salsa, 1 tablespoon of the chilies, cumin, sugar and cloves. Cover and cook over low heat for 40 minutes; stir occasionally.


Stir in the parsley, jalapeno and remaining chilies. Cover and cook for another 20 to 25 minutes, or until the meat is tender.

=> Chili Verde Recipes: Basic Homemade Chili Verde

Here is a simple way to make homemade chili verde which uses fresh cilantro.


1 pound pork, cubed

5 tomatillos (green tomatoes)

3 serrano chili peppers

1 medium white onion

1/3 bunch fresh cilantro

4 cloves of garlic

Directions


In a pan, cook pork until nice and brown; drain off the fat.


Wrap the tomatillos, chilies and garlic in aluminum foil and place them inside a pot. Cover and heat on medum high until the tomatoes are nice and soft; stir occasionally.


Unwrap the vegetables and place in a food processor along with the onion and cilantro. Blend well. Pour sauce over the pork and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. You can add a little more fresh cilantro after about 5 minutes of cooking, if desired.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Limited Resources - Maximum Performance

Resources in a computer system are limited. All the concurrently running processes have to share these resources and memory adequately and efficiently. If too many processes run at the same time, then the system is deemed to perform poorly. Also, if not too many processes are active, there may be processes running in the background that may hinder the optimum utilization of resources. To deal with the background processes, one has to focus on the Windows registry and the startup menu. Some of the installed programs are designed to load themselves at the time of Windows startup. The information regarding this is stored in the registry. These programs drain the resources and the computer runs slow.

The programs that load at the startup are usually the anti-virus programs or OS based tools. They need to be used as often as the operating system loads itself. Even if a person seldom makes use of these programs, they still consume that precious little memory and gradually force the computer to behave absurdly and poorly. Unnecessary utilization of resources affects the overall performance as well.

There are many registry fixers and cleaners available for download that can help manage the startup tools. You can check/uncheck any program you want or do not want to load automatically on start-up. You can think of it as a manual startup of the Windows. The user interface of the registry cleaners is also kept as simple as possible for better understanding. You do not need to delete or uninstall the programs, but you can just have them removed from the startup line of the operating system. You can have a better command over your tools and can decide your computer's performance all by yourself. Just keep the registry clean and improve your computer's performance to the hilt.