Pork boston butt with many fixins

[Love Life]

The boston butt has been in the oven for a couple hours now, with a couple more hours left. We will be making jalapeno slaw and hush puppies as sides for those who want it shredded for sandwiches. We will be making mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, and carrots with rolls who prefer it sliced.

What do you all have cooking this Sunday?

[jmort]

Envy
Just had a microwave burrito

[Love Life]

Envy
Just had a microwave burrito

Hop in the car and drive a couple hours.

[308Jeff]

Dang that sounds good...

[Walkingwolf]

I miss eating pork, would love to have some marinated mojo pork(Cuban). But my heart doctor says that is a no no.

I wonder if that is how my heart got plugged up to start with from Cuban food in South Florida.

[farmerjim]

Grilled Tuna, little potatoes, artichoke hearts, green beans homemade bread .

I love to cook those pork roasts for about 12 hours on my gas smoker.

[TCFAN]

Boston pork butts.....My favorite meat to smoke in my kamado ceramic cooker.I smoked 3 pork butts last Thursday for a all church singing dinner Friday night. Cooked them 12+ hours till they were 200* internal temp. Fall off the bone tender. Lump charcoal with Apple wood with a cooking temp. of 225-250*. Very easy to do and very tasty............Terry

[PB234]

Steak cooked sous-vide to medium rare and some asparagus. Maybe make a wine/mushroom/butter sauce to go with it or just serve some finishing salt. Sometimes I will do a piece of chuck for a long time sous-vide. It turns out like a piece of steak, but with even better meaty taste and at a fifth of the cost. Shame we have given up bread as home made rolls/bread would be great with it. Also given up carbs so no potatoes or anything like that. Given up desert or would have made a pie or cake to go along with it. Ice water with a slice of lemon for a beverage. Sundays are my family day where enjoying the company of my family is at the top of my list and dinner an important time.

Would love to go hog hunting and get a small one to put on the smoker whole. Just feeling a bit old to climb up a tree so the hog doesn't put me on its smoker. Probably time to look for somewhere with a stand to hunt from in NC or SC. Maybe get two and use one for all of the Italian recipes that say comfort food.

[Love Life]

Bread making is definitely something I want to get into.

The butt is resting now before it goes back in for a high heat crisping. Hush puppy batter is mixed and ready for the fryer, and the gravy I ready for me to apply heat.


Almost eating time!!! I also have me a jar of Washington Market BBQ sauce.

[dragon813gt]

Bread making is definitely something I want to get into.

If you have a Kitchen Aid mixer I can give you a simple white bread recipe that takes about five minutes to make.

Wish I was eating what you're making. It's left over Chinese food tonight :beer:

[Love Life]

I don't have a kitchen Aid. I do all my mixing with Randall made knives and all my slicing with a karate chop!

On a serious note, I would like to try your recipe.

[frankenfab]

Love Life, I would like to hear your jalapeño cole slaw recipe.

[Love Life]

Steak cooked sous-vide to medium rare and some asparagus. Maybe make a wine/mushroom/butter sauce to go with it or just serve some finishing salt. Sometimes I will do a piece of chuck for a long time sous-vide. It turns out like a piece of steak, but with even better meaty taste and at a fifth of the cost. Shame we have given up bread as home made rolls/bread would be great with it. Also given up carbs so no potatoes or anything like that. Given up desert or would have made a pie or cake to go along with it. Ice water with a slice of lemon for a beverage. Sundays are my family day where enjoying the company of my family is at the top of my list and dinner an important time.

Would love to go hog hunting and get a small one to put on the smoker whole. Just feeling a bit old to climb up a tree so the hog doesn't put me on its smoker. Probably time to look for somewhere with a stand to hunt from in NC or SC. Maybe get two and use one for all of the Italian recipes that say comfort food.

I genuinely enjoy cooking for people. Sunday dinner is important to us too.

[Love Life]

Love Life, I would like to hear your jalapeño cole slaw recipe.

I'll get the recipe posted.

[Moonie]

Steak cooked sous-vide to medium rare and some asparagus. Maybe make a wine/mushroom/butter sauce to go with it or just serve some finishing salt. Sometimes I will do a piece of chuck for a long time sous-vide. It turns out like a piece of steak, but with even better meaty taste and at a fifth of the cost. Shame we have given up bread as home made rolls/bread would be great with it. Also given up carbs so no potatoes or anything like that. Given up desert or would have made a pie or cake to go along with it. Ice water with a slice of lemon for a beverage. Sundays are my family day where enjoying the company of my family is at the top of my list and dinner an important time.

Would love to go hog hunting and get a small one to put on the smoker whole. Just feeling a bit old to climb up a tree so the hog doesn't put me on its smoker. Probably time to look for somewhere with a stand to hunt from in NC or SC. Maybe get two and use one for all of the Italian recipes that say comfort food.
You should try smoking a boston butt for about 4 hours then sous vide at about 148F for 48 hours, it falls apart and then melts in your mouth when you eat it.

[Scorpion8]

Chili dogs and steak fries. Great cold weather comfort food.

[Wayne Smith]

Tea smoked a chicken for a try - don't particularly like it. I'll go back to the Lemon/Rosemary chicken,

[MaryB]

Burger and onion rings from the bar and only restaurant in town... no energy to cook tonight. New kitten discovered me in bed 2 nights ago so lack of sleep! He wants to play and be petted...

[Hogtamer]

LL,
Bet you don't have a set-up this nice !
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[opos]

I'm going to offer some ideas for dessert....I don't cook but got a Daughter in Law that is a professional cook with a hugely successful blog (over a million hits last Thanksgiving alone in one day)...free for the looking but be careful...5 minutes of browsing will add 20 pounds...If I get started on the "pie section" I'm a goner...hope this tops off your great meal.

http://www.crazyforcrust.com/

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[PB234]

Love Life, if bread is something you plan on baking two terrific cookbooks are the King Arthur Baking one available used on eBay for well under $8 including shipping or this one The Bread Bible Hardcover – October 17, 2003
by Rose Levy Beranbaum (https://www.amazon.com/Rose-Levy-Beranbaum/e/B000APEDSA/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1) which presents more complex recipes potentially requiring mail ordering some ingredients but producing breads that are as satisfying as cake. The King Arthur recipes are more along the lines of good home cooking. eBay is the place to buy used cookbooks.

If you want to visit Italy by baking try to get hold of The Italian Baker by Carol Field. The newer edition has pictures which the old one doesn't and a picture is worth a thousand words here.

Baking is really very easy. Just a question of repetitions to get to the point where things feel right and understanding inherent. Having given up carbs I have moved onto BBQ. I can make a heck of a pie, but can't eat it anymore; cakes and bread too. Pasta is a past memory as is even Mac and Cheese. African American pies are well worth investigating as is Soul Food overall. Cooking modest ingredients into festive and wonderful meals is another interest of mine. All around the world people have learned how to turn modest ingredients into feasts far more interesting and better than a steak or roast.

Best baking to you,

PB234

Cook books have a fairly short shelf life at retail and often turn up used for pennies on the dollar and remain the same wealth of information as when new.