Bad days need good food.........

Twas a horrible day at the music store.No details here, but trust me, it sucked on the Hoover scale. For those of you not familiar with the Hoover scale, It is laid out like this..... 1.0 being waking up on picture day with a zit on the tip of your nose. 5.0 (or the mooseknuckle of God) being , getting the message that you are having a 10 year IRS audit in the middle of a repeat prostate exam. Hope this explains it.
One of my favorite sandwichs is the Cuban. The Cuban is roast pork, deli ham, swiss cheese and mustard on a bolito roll, covered in butter then pressed in a panni press. Warm,buttery ,porky goodness. I make them 2 or 3 times a year due to the length of time it takes to make the pork roast. Delis in REAL cities have roast pork in the meat counter, alas,as we live in Hooterville, no chance of that . This is the town where the Harris Teeter deli manager told me they didnt carry pastrami becuase it wasnt "kosher".After I cleaned up the pee that I laughed hard enough to release, I cried at the level of plain "Goober-ness" we deal with here in Podunk. I love my hometown (warts and all) and would never move...Oh thats a load of bull poopy...If I had the money, I would be outta here like grease thru a goose. I digress.....

Cuban Roast Pork

1 8 pound pork shoulder roast (or Boston butt)
4 onions (quartered)
2 heads of garlic (mashed)
1 12 oz box of chicken broth
1 cup orange orange juice
1 cup key lime juice
1/4 cup of salt
(This combination is called MOJO pronouced "moho" and works well with any Cuban meat dish)

mix all ingredients together in a deep roasting pan (cept the pork)
rub shoulder with salt and pepper and roll in liquid mixture
Place shoulder in roasting pan, liquid should come half way up the roast
Cover pan with tin foil
Bake in a pre-heated oven (300 degrees) for 4 hours
Remove meat from pan and let rest on a plate for 20 minutes
slice paper thin and rest in cooking liquid to keep warm
This whole recipe goes great with black beans and plantains..... but we are here to make CUBANS!

Two recipes for the price of one !! What a deal !!

sliced roast pork
thinly slice boiled ham
sliced swiss cheese
yellow mustard
sliced dill pickles
butter

To assemble:
layer bottom slice of roll with mustard then roast pork, 1 slice boiled ham ,1 pickle then swiss cheese
butter top and bottom of roll with butter
place in sandwich press (if you dont have a sandwich press, heat a heavy frying pan, then wrap a brick in sevral layers of foil. Butter the brick (yes, butter the bottom of the brick) use the brick as a weight to press the sandwich. Fry till brown and crispy , then enjoy with a Cuba Libre (rum and coke)
bolito rolls (or white sub rolls)