slow cooker

tested our slow cooker out yesterday with a nice pulled pork. the night before i was to make it, i rubbed the pork with a spice mixture of equal parts brown sugar and a spicy red powder that forget to label - it's not a chile powder, but it's spicier than a paprika...i think it's hungarian paprika...so i did about a 1/3 cup of each of those. then about a 1/4 cup of the following: salt, garlic powder, black pepper...thats pretty much it for the rub....rubbed it all in, massaged the pork shoulder...covered it and put it in the fridge over night...

next morning at about 6:45 am, sliced up a couple fat slices of red onion. put then in the bottom of the slow cooker. then, put the pork shoulder on top of the onions, fatty side up. drizzled some worchetshire over it, some hot sauce, a little apple cider vinegar and some bbq sauce. added a tiny bit of water in the bottom. turned it on low, covered it up and jetted to work.

on my way home from work, i stopped at safeway and copped some french bread rolls, some cole slaw and some pickles.

when i opened the door to my house, the smell hit me like a ton of bricks and MAN DID IT SMELL BLAZING! wow...so good...that bbq smell...ummm...i opened the top of the slow cooker and pulled apart that pork in like 20 seconds with two forks...it was sooo tender it fell right apart..there was a little bone in the middle and it came right off... now since it sat for like 10 hours in a steamer, it was a little dry...i cracked open a Bridegport Black Strap Stout and poured 1/3 of the dark beer in and finished the rest...added some more hot sauce, some more bbq sauce, mixed everything up and covered it back up for about an hour till Mel got home. best bbq pork ever she said and the rest was history.

oh yeah, cut open your roll...throw some slaw on that baby, cut a pickle in 1/2 and put both halves on the roll and cover w/ a couple large gobs of pulled pork.

just another fresh recipe from Chef Boy-R-P.