Bam. Seven pounds of pork shoulder. Literally pork month - because we'll be eating it for a month. Every day. Which is a-okay by me.
I felt the first way to honor what seemed like a metric ton of pork was to make some classic pulled-pork sandwiches. I carved off a third (since I don't think there isn't a slow cooked big enough for that whole thing to fit in) slathered it in dry rub, and wrapped it up to sit overnight in the fridge.
Some twelve to fourteen hours later...
...it was ready for eight hours in a slow cooker:
Tender perfection. The second best part of this creation (second to actually eating the pork of course), was coming home to the awesome smell of the shoulder cooking away after having just watched my Niners solidify a month of disappointment with a fourth straight loss. But that is another blog...back to food.
The final product:
Finished with homemade barbecue sauce and homemade coleslaw, this was right about 24 hours in the making and very well worth it.
Two and a half pounds of pork shoulder down and about five to go... booyah.
One final side note: it is also apparently "National Vegetarian Awareness Month". So for all you herbivores, the BBQ sauce on top of the coleslaw is delicious in itself. Plus it means more pulled pork for me.
--Isaac
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