Friday's are my day off each week so I like to spend a little more time on meals since I am not pressed for time. With the whole day ahead of me this past Friday I decided to try the Easy Pork Shoulder recipe from the BIG BATCH section of EDF #71 (page 90) since it has to cook for 5 hours. You cook once and get 3 meals, sounds like a plan to me. Meal 1 from the recipe is pulled-pork sandwiches with coleslaw (page 91) with my mom's potato salad as a side.
Easy Pork Shoulder
This recipe is definately easy. You simply score the fat, sprinkle with salt and pepper, put in a pan with 1/2 cup water and then leave it in the oven for 5 hours to slow roast. After the 5 hours the meat was falling apart. I even ended up with enough juices from it that I can make some split pea soup in the future. Then you just remove the fat and shred with 2 forks and divide it up for your future meals.
Next it was on to making the potato salad. I might be biased but I think that this is one of the best potato salads ever.
Easy Pork Shoulder
This recipe is definately easy. You simply score the fat, sprinkle with salt and pepper, put in a pan with 1/2 cup water and then leave it in the oven for 5 hours to slow roast. After the 5 hours the meat was falling apart. I even ended up with enough juices from it that I can make some split pea soup in the future. Then you just remove the fat and shred with 2 forks and divide it up for your future meals.
Next it was on to making the potato salad. I might be biased but I think that this is one of the best potato salads ever.
Mom's Potato Salad
4-5 cups diced cold boiled potatoes
3/4 cup thinly sliced celery
1/4 finely chopped onion
3 hard boiled eggs
1 cup Miracle Whip
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp sugar
salt
pepper
Mix together Miracle Whip, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper.
Pour over potatoes, celery, onion and eggs.
Gently fold.
Refrigerate until cold.
Here's where things got a little out of hand. The pulled pork sandwhich recipe calls for homemade or store bought bbq sauce. I only use Bulls Eye bbq sauce (Bold Original I think it's called) and I didn't think that it would be good on pork so I decided that if I was going to chance tying a new store bought sauce I may as well make my own. So I pulled out my bbq cook books and found a couple of recipes. To further complicate things I elected to combine them and create my own.
Heathers BBQ Sauce
1 cup beef stock
1 cup crushed tomatoes
1/2 cup fancy molasses
3 tbsp cider vinegar
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp Dijon mustard
1/2 small onion very finely diced
2 cloves minced garlic
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
4 tsp paprika
1 tsp ground chipotle
1 tsp dried oregano
Mix together and simmer until reduced by about one third (approximately 20 minutes).
Last step, the pulled-pork sandwiches. We debated about whether to try the coleslaw on the sandwiches or not and figured that we would go for it. So I quickly chopped up the cabbage and carrots and tossed with the dressing, combined the pork and the bbq sauce and assembled.
4-5 cups diced cold boiled potatoes
3/4 cup thinly sliced celery
1/4 finely chopped onion
3 hard boiled eggs
1 cup Miracle Whip
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp sugar
salt
pepper
Mix together Miracle Whip, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper.
Pour over potatoes, celery, onion and eggs.
Gently fold.
Refrigerate until cold.
Here's where things got a little out of hand. The pulled pork sandwhich recipe calls for homemade or store bought bbq sauce. I only use Bulls Eye bbq sauce (Bold Original I think it's called) and I didn't think that it would be good on pork so I decided that if I was going to chance tying a new store bought sauce I may as well make my own. So I pulled out my bbq cook books and found a couple of recipes. To further complicate things I elected to combine them and create my own.
Heathers BBQ Sauce
1 cup beef stock
1 cup crushed tomatoes
1/2 cup fancy molasses
3 tbsp cider vinegar
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp Dijon mustard
1/2 small onion very finely diced
2 cloves minced garlic
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
4 tsp paprika
1 tsp ground chipotle
1 tsp dried oregano
Mix together and simmer until reduced by about one third (approximately 20 minutes).
Last step, the pulled-pork sandwiches. We debated about whether to try the coleslaw on the sandwiches or not and figured that we would go for it. So I quickly chopped up the cabbage and carrots and tossed with the dressing, combined the pork and the bbq sauce and assembled.
Brad - 7 - Would like to have this meal again
Heather - 7 - Didn't love it and am not sure that it was worth all the work I created for myself
As a side note my friend Kandice also made this recipe the day before. Her rating was the same as mine. The one thing that might have made a difference is that we both used smoked pork shoulder when I think we should have tried to find one that wasn't. If I see one in the store I may attempt again to compare.
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