Big pot of carnitas goes a long way on Cinco de Mayo
- May 5, 2024
By Carla Vigos
Laguna Woods Globe cooking columnist
Hola, amigas and amigos. Are you looking for a dish for Cinco de Mayo? This easy carnitas recipe will fit the bill.
I love carnitas any way they’re served, be it in tacos with coleslaw and pineapple salsa or pickled onions. Or perhaps in burritos with refried beans, cheese and any other favorite ingredients. Carnitas nachos are delicious with guacamole, sour cream, olives, green onions, pico de gallo, cheese, jalapenos and cilantro.
I prefer carnitas finished under the broiler, but if you want a softer meat, you can skip this step. Remember in cooking, doing it your way is what makes your style unique.
Always taste before serving and add salt, pepper or hot sauce if needed.
This recipe makes a lot of meat, but it can be frozen to enjoy another time.
Any questions or comments? Email me at [email protected]
Carnitas (Mexican Pulled Pork)
INGREDIENTS
3 to 5 pounds of pork butt
1 teaspoon cumin
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 large onion, chopped
3 to 5 garlic cloves
2 bay leaves
1 cup of chicken broth
4 tablespoons lime juice
1/2 cup orange juice
Add-ons: limes, cilantro and red pickled onions
INSTRUCTIONS
Dry the pork butt with a paper towel.
In a small bowl, combine the cumin, oregano, paprika, salt and pepper.
In a crockpot, place the onions, garlic, bay leaves, chicken broth and lime and orange juices.
Coat the pork butt with the dry spice rub on all sides and place on top of the onion mixture in the crockpot. Cook on high for six hours or on low for eight to 10 hours. You need to make sure it is tender when done.
On a rimmed cookie sheet, shred the meat with two forks into big chunks. Adjust seasonings.
Pour 3/4 cup of juice over the meat. Broil on high for 4 minutes, then stir and broil 1 to 2 minutes more. You want the meat golden brown with crisp edges.
Save the juice and add some to the carnitas if you like. It’s also good to add when you reheat the meat. If you want to eat just the meat alone, when serving add a squeeze of lime along with cilantro and pickled onions.
Orange County Register
Read More
Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks for Sunday, May 5, 2024
- May 5, 2024
The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Sunday, May 5, 2024.
Trouble viewing on mobile device? See consensus picks
Enjoy the consensus horse racing picks online? Subscribe
Related Articles
Kyle Frey rides Gold Phoenix to Whittingham Stakes win at Santa Anita
Mystik Dan wins Kentucky Derby in 3-horse photo finish
Kentucky Derby wide open after Fierceness and Sierra Leone
Horse racing: This Kentucky Derby pick has a touch of surprise
Horse racing notes: Offlee Naughty seeks Whittingham Stakes repeat
Orange County Register
Read More
USC, UCLA will rematch in NCAA beach volleyball final
- May 5, 2024
The crosstown rivals are running it back on the beach.
One year after USC vanquished UCLA for its third consecutive NCAA beach volleyball championship, the Trojans and Bruins will do it again Sunday in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
The Trojans and Bruins are scheduled for first serve at 8 a.m. PT live on ESPN.
Led by American Volleyball Coaches Association National Coach of the Year Dain Blanton, the top-seeded Trojans (36-5) swept eighth-seeded Loyola Marymount on Saturday morning and then fifth-seeded Cal Poly to advance to the final.
The second-seeded Bruins (35-6), under the guidance of first-year coach Jenny Johnson Jordan, swept seventh-seeded Cal in the morning before dispatching of 11th-seeded Florida State – which stunned third-seeded Stanford in five sets in the quarterfinals – in four sets in the semifinal.
The victories set up a seventh meeting in the championship dual between the archrivals, who split six regular-season and Pac-12 tournament contests.
Their last showdowns came April 26 in the Pac-12 Tournament. UCLA pulled off a reverse sweep to shock USC and send it to the contender’s bracket before the Trojans stormed back to sweep the Bruins in the final for their fifth conference championship.
The Trojans (2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023) and Bruins (2018, 2019) are the only teams to have ever won an NCAA beach volleyball title.
Related Articles
No. 1 UCLA, No. 2 Long Beach State vie for NCAA men’s volleyball title
UCLA transfer portal recap: Bruins retain many, still have holes to fill
USC transfer portal recap: Trojans deep in the secondary, thin up front
Long Beach State rallies to beat Grand Canyon in NCAA men’s volleyball semifinal
UCLA outlasts UC Irvine in 5 sets to reach NCAA men’s volleyball final
USC leads the all-time series 26-20 over UCLA. In the championship dual, USC has a 2-1 edge and is 3-2 over its rival at the NCAA Tournament.
This will be the last NCAA final at Gulf Shores, Alabama, before it moves to Huntington Beach in 2025 and 2026.
Orange County Register
Read More
Reid Detmers allows grand slam in Angels’ loss to Guardians
- May 5, 2024
CLEVELAND — Reid Detmers’ season has lately turned in the wrong direction.
The Angels left-hander gave up seven runs in a 7-1 loss to the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday, a second straight disappointing outing after beginning his season brilliantly.
Detmers had a 2.12 ERA after his first five starts, but he’s allowed 12 runs in the last two games to double his ERA, to 4.24.
“It was a poor performance,” Detmers said. “No other explanation. Four walks. A lot of hits. Just didn’t execute very well.”
The Angels also lost catcher Logan O’Hoppe, who came out of the game with a right hand contusion. He was hit in the hand by a foul ball in the bottom of the fourth. He remained in the game for one-bat, a strikeout.
O’Hoppe already had an X-ray that confirmed there was no fracture.
“After coming in and getting treatment, it feels much better now,” O’Hoppe said.
He added that he expects to be back in the lineup on Monday, after Sunday’s previously planned day off.
It added up to a disappointing night for the Angels (12-21) on the heels of one of their most impressive victories of the season. The Angels haven’t won back-to-back games in a month.
Detmers gave up three runs in the first five innings on a pair of homers. In the second, he challenged No. 9 hitter Austin Hedges with a 1-and-0 fastball, and Hedges hit into the first row in left field. Two innings later, Detmers threw a first-pitch fastball to Ramon Laureano, who also hit it into the first row.
In the sixth, Detmers walked the first two hitters and then struck out the next two. The Angels wanted Detmers to pitch carefully to right-handed hitting Tyler Freeman because lefty Bo Naylor was up next. Detmers walked Freeman, and then Naylor came to the plate hitting .175, including 1 for 12 with eight strikeouts against lefties.
But Detmers hung a curve ball to Naylor — “right in his honey hole,” Detmers said — and he hit it out for a grand slam.
“In my wildest dream, I would have never thought that was going to happen,” manager Ron Washington said.
That was all for Detmers, whose passable outing turned into a bad one just that quickly.
“It’s frustrating,” Detmers said. “I don’t know. It just comes down to execution. That’s baseball. You have to live and learn. We’re going to get over this, going to get past it. Just have to take it start by start. I’m looking forward to next week, a new challenge. We’ll figure it out in the bullpen and go from there. It obviously hurts. Move on to next week.”
Before the grand slam, the Angels were still trailing because their offense was quiet against right-hander Ben Lively, a 32-year-old journeyman who had a rather pedestrian career until getting off to a strong start this season.
The Angels had four hits in six innings against Lively.
Related Articles
Angels’ Amir Garrett has new mindset in hopes of career rebound
José Soriano, young hitters lead the way in Angels’ victory over Guardians
Willie Calhoun batting 4th for Angels because Ron Washington says young players aren’t ready
Angels’ Mickey Moniak looks to take advantage of opportunity provided by Mike Trout’s injury
Angels fail to cash in on opportunities in 2-1 loss to Phillies
The Angels failed to convert on Willie Calhoun’s leadoff double in the second, and didn’t get anything else going until a two-out rally in the fifth. Three walks and a Zach Neto single produced one run, but Ehire Adrianza hit a fly ball to the warning track to leave the bases loaded.
“I didn’t think (Lively’s stuff) was that good,” Washington said. “But he was able to make some pitches when he had to. He shot some fast balls inside on us. He threw some good changeups. He was able to minimize any damage that we could do.”
Orange County Register
Read More
Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, May 4
- May 5, 2024
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now
Scores and stats from Orange County games on Saturday, May 4
Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register.
The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday.
SATURDAY’S SCORES
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
Semifinals
DIVISION 5
Sage Hill def. Flintridge Prep, 25-20, 25-18, 25-14
DIVISION 6
Samueli Academy def. Malibu, 26-24, 25-23, 25-23
GIRLS LACROSSE
CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
DIVISION 1
Quarterfinals
Redondo Union 20, San Clemente 8
Marlborough 15, St. Margaret’s 9
DIVISION 2
Quarterfinals
Santiago/Corona at Trabuco Hills, Monday, 7 p.m.
DIVISION 3
Round 2
Orange Lutheran 22, Segerstrom 2
Northwood 16, Saugus 3
Orange County Register
Read More
Orange May Parade marches through Old Towne
- May 5, 2024
The Orange community celebrated with the power of The Force on Saturday.
The Orange May Parade adopted a Star Wars theme this year — there’s a trend of celebrating “May the Fourth Be With You” on May 4, a play on the famed Star Wars phrase — and this year’s theme was, “Come to the Orange Side!”
The May Parade in Orange started in the 1930s and marched on for decades before ending in the ’90s for lack of funding. Several years ago, the Orange Chamber of Commerce rekindled the tradition and this year close to 100 entries were featured.
Related Articles
‘CicloIrvine’ brings car-free open streets to Irvine
Judge’s order: Anaheim can’t require permits for transitional housing
Thousands of runners expected at 20th annual OC Marathon Sunday
Trampas Canyon Reservoir hits major milestone ahead of schedule
5 things to know about Saturday’s NCAA men’s volleyball final in Long Beach
Orange County Register
Read More
UCLA men’s volleyball repeats as NCAA champs with victory over Long Beach State
- May 5, 2024
LONG BEACH — There were enough twists and turns at the NCAA Championships on Saturday afternoon to write a bestseller.
The top-seeded UCLA men’s volleyball team ultimately wrote the final chapter with a four-set victory over second-seeded Long Beach State in front of a sold-out crowd at the Walter Pyramid, giving the Bruins their second straight national title and 21st in program history.
The 25-21, 25-20, 27-29, 25-21 victory also clinched the 122nd national title for the UCLA athletics department.
“This was a hard match and a well-deserved win,” UCLA coach John Speraw said.
Ethan Champlin had 15 kills and six blocks for the Bruins (26-5), who hit .297 as a team. Cooper Robinson had 12 kills and just two hitting errors and Merrick McHenry had 10 kills and five blocks. Ido David served three of UCLA’s six aces while also contributing nine kills and four blocks.
“They served the ball great, played good blocking defense,” Long Beach setter Aidan Knipe said of UCLA.
Speraw also singled out senior libero Alex Knight, who had 31 service receptions without an error, and sophomore outside hitter Zach Rama, who substituted into the game late in the fourth set and delivered back-to-back kills to give the Bruins a 22-20 lead before his third kill of the match made it 23-21.
Sotiris Siapanis led Long Beach with 12 kills, but he also committed seven hitting errors for a .161 hitting percentage. Skyler Varga had 11 kills, but 10 of his swings were errant, leaving him with a .034 hitting percentage.
LBSU hit .214 as a team, well off its .348 mark on the season.
The loss also ended a 19-match winning streak for LBSU at the Pyramid.
“We will be back to fight another day,” Long Beach coach Alan Knipe said. “The match tonight doesn’t define them. The fight of the third set defines them, the three straight Finals Four appearances, the (semifinal) match against Grand Canyon, the reverse sweep against UCLA at UCLA two years ago, that’s what defines them. … I could be happier for them, but I absolutely could not be prouder.”
Long Beach (27-3) erased an early three-point deficit in the opening set and moved ahead 12-9, prompting Speraw to use his second and final timeout.
The Bruins regrouped and scored four straight to move ahead 16-14. Long Beach evened the score three times before another four-point run moved the Bruins back ahead 22-18 on an off-speed kill by Champlin.
LBSU scored the next two points before another kill by Champlin was followed by his one-hand dig. He then finished off the play by bouncing another spike off the floor, giving UCLA set point before McHenry closed the set with a kill.
“The first story was the amount of guts we had to be down early in their gym against a team that was feeling pretty good early,” Speraw said. “For me to not have any more timeouts, and for us to come back and win that set pretty handily, I thought was a complete and total team effort and a tremendous start to the match.”
Early passing errors by Long Beach in the second set caused it to fall behind 7-2, and Long Beach never got closer than three the rest of the way.
Clarke Godbold came off the bench midway through the set and served an ace to cut it to 23-19, but his next serve went into the net, giving the Bruins set point at 24-19. After a service error by UCLA, Robinson finished it with a kill that went off the block and out of bounds.
“We weren’t’ good enough long enough tonight and there’s no way around that,” Alan Knipe said.
The third set featured 18 ties and seven lead changes.
Long Beach built a 23-21 lead, but the Bruins scored four straight points to reach match point.
Godbold answered with a kill to tie it back up and, after UCLA warded off two set points by LBSU, David’s service error gave Long Beach set point again. This time, DiAeris McRaven put down a block to give LBSU the win.
“I thought we weathered that incredibly well and battled, battled, battled in a set where I didn’t feel like we had the momentum, but we somehow managed to get to match point,” Speraw said. “That swing that Godbold took, it went right through (the block), so when you almost win it and you don’t, it’s really tough emotionally.”
Long Beach got off to its best start in the final set, taking an early 3-1 lead, but UCLA would score four in a row to move ahead 8-6.
The Bruins extended the lead to 18-15 before Long Beach knotted it back up at 18, 19 and 20-all.
Rama’s kill moved UCLA ahead 23-21 before Varga was called for a net violation on a kill attempt, giving the Bruins match point.
Varga’s two-hand stuff then went wide and the Bruins dogpiled in the middle of the floor for the second straight season.
“I didn’t have anything left to give in that fourth set,” Champlin said.”I was trying my best to have some energy. I was lightheaded, I couldn’t feel my legs. If we would have gone five, it wouldn’t have gone too well.”
Orange County Register
Read More
Santa Margarita boys and girls continue Division 1 reign at CIF-SS swimming finals
- May 5, 2024
Santa Margarita boys and girls win the CIF Southern Section Division 1 swimming championships, and celebrated with jumping to the pool on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at the Mt. San Antonio College Aquatic Center. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
WALNUT — The Santa Margarita and Loyola boys swimming and diving teams have developed a rivalry the past five seasons that probably ranks among the most competitive in the CIF Southern Section.
The Eagles and Cubs battled again for first place Saturday at the Division 1 championships at Mt. San Antonio College.
Santa Margarita came out on top again, capturing the team title over Loyola for the fourth consecutive season.
The Eagles finished with 382 points and the Cubs were second with 345 points.
The Northwood, JSerra and Tesoro boys teams finished fourth, fifth and sixth with 281, 181 and 126 points, respectively.
“The seniors in particular have just been such tremendous leaders all the way, showing the younger guys what it takes to move on next year,” Eagles co-head coach Ron Blanc said. “But it took us 35 years coaching to win a boys title and now the guys have won four in a row.”
Santa Margarita swimmers and coaches hold up four fingers after the boys team won its fourth consecutive Division 1 title at the CIF-SS swimming and diving championships Saturday, May 4, at Mt. San Antonio College. (Photo by Lou Ponsi)
In the boys’ 200-yard medley relay, the Santa Margarita team of Ramon Jiang (50 backstroke), Nathan Wu (breaststroke), Daniel Verdolaga (butterfly) and Jerry Yan (freestyle) won in a Division 1 record time of 1 minute, 29.08 seconds. The record had been 1:29.30, which the Eagles set last year.
The last boys race of the meet, the 400 freestyle relay, was also the day’s best race. The Northwood foursome of Derek Hitchens, Elson Lee, Will Chen and Andrew Maksymowski were in a virtual tie for the entire race with Santa Margarita’s Ramon Jung, Daniel Verdolaga, Adam Lee and Hunter Cehelnik.
The Timberwolves won, touching in 2:59.15, and the Eagles finished second in 2:59.37.
Fountain Valley sophomore Peter Vue, one of the highly seeded younger competitors in the meet, finished second to San Marino standout Daniel Li in the 100 free.
Li, a Stanford commit, won in 53.05 and Vu finished in 54.63.
“I’ve been having a good block of training the past few months,” Vu said. “I just want to see what I can do and go as fast as I can and I think I did well.”
There were no surprises on the girls side, with Santa Margarita dominating the field and winning its 10th consecutive Southern Section title.
The Eagles scored 439 points, more than doubling Mira Costa’s second-place score of 180.
JSerra, Fountain Valley and Portola were fourth, fifth and seventh, respectively.
“It’s legendary,” Eagles co-head coach Rich Blanc said. “It’s just one for the history books. We never talk about (it). Each team wants to create their own identity and have their own success and then carry that forward to future generations.”
The Eagles’ Teagan O’Dell, perhaps a future Olympian and the top swimmer in the meet, broke her own Division 1 record in the 200 individual medley, winning in 1:53.63, about four-tenths of a second faster than the record she set last year.
However, O’Dell fell just short of besting the national high school record of 1:53.38, which she also holds.
Teagan O’Dell of Santa Margarita High School competes in the girls 200-yard individual medley for the CIF Southern Section Division 1 swimming championships, beating her own record on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at the Mt. San Antonio College Aquatic Center. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG)
“It wasn’t a goal to break the (national) record … but I couldn’t have been happier with going 1:53.63 today,” O’Dell said. “I’m happy with it. The goal was to kind of just come in and have fun with it and just be in the moment here before I have to focus for (Olympic) trials here in about a month.”
O’Dell said she will not compete in next week’s CIF State Championship meet to focus on the Olympic Trials in Indianapolis in June.
The Cal commit was 14 years old the first time she swam in the Olympic Trials.
“Yeah, so going back three years later now, I’m so excited to just be there,” O’Dell said, “see some friends that I haven’t seen in a while, and just see some really awesome things.”
Fountain Valley freshman Alyssa Ton, one of the Barons’ young standouts, won the 200 free in 1:45.96, finishing just ahead of Portola sophomore Ava DeAnda (1:46.70).
“She’s a talented athlete,” Fountain Valley coach Nathan Wilcox said. “I think she’s going to have a long, successful career. We’re just making sure we manage everything the next four years and make sure we come back and work on getting better every year.”
Related Articles
Top 5 storylines for the CIF-SS Division 1 swimming championships
Top Orange County swimming times entering Division 1 prelims, May 2
Woodbridge’s Unified swimmers set pace with new inclusion events at CIF-SS championships
Orange County girls athlete of the week: Teagan O’Dell, Santa Margarita
Santa Margarita’s Teagan O’Dell, Portola boys highlight league swimming finals
Orange County Register
Read MoreNews
- ASK IRA: Have Heat, Pat Riley been caught adrift amid NBA free agency?
- Dodgers rally against Cubs again to make a winner of Clayton Kershaw
- Clippers impress in Summer League-opening victory
- Anthony Rizzo back in lineup after four-game absence
- New acquisition Claire Emslie scores winning goal for Angel City over San Diego Wave FC
- Hermosa Beach Open: Chase Budinger settling into rhythm with Olympics in mind
- Yankees lose 10th-inning head-slapper to Red Sox, 6-5
- Dodgers remain committed to Dustin May returning as starter
- Mets win with circus walk-off in 10th inning on Keith Hernandez Day
- Mission Viejo football storms to title in the Battle at the Beach passing tournament