Tuesday - pork shoulder roast

Some humor to start the day! :) I love this picture....because it is so true!

So.....Tuesday was pulled pork day. Breakfast was very simple, just fried eggs, bacon and cinnamon toast. I threw the pork shoulder roast in the crock pot while I was making breakfast and sprinkled it with some Herbs De Provence and poured a Pepsi over the top. Turned the crock pot down to low and cooked for about 6 hours. In the early afternoon I rounded up the kids and we pulled the pork. Each of us used 2 forks to kind of slide the fat off the outside and then pull the pork apart. That took about 15 minutes with all of us working together...if I had done it alone it might have gone more quickly than that and there surely would have been less cleanup! After all the fat was removed the 5 pound roast yielded about 3.4 pounds of meat for the next few meals!

Lunch was leftover Beef Stew from Saturday and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Actually putting the meal together took about 20 minutes, including everything!


Recipes for dinner:

Barbecue Pork Sandwiches
2 cups of pulled pork
1/2 cup barbecue sauce
Heat together and put on sandwich buns.

Fake Baked Beans
3 15-ounce cans of pinto beans
1/2 cup ketchup
1/3 cup molasses
3T apple cider vinegar
2T spicy brown mustard
splash of Tabasco sauce
fresh ground black pepper
1t liquid smoke
dehydrated onion flakes
Put beans and their liquid in a pot and mix everything else in. Simmer for about 30 minutes or so until thickened.

Disclaimer - This recipe came from "The Wednesday Chef" and I tweaked it a bit for our tastes. We didn't LOVE this one. There was enough for dinner and enough left over for the kids to warm them up and have a Chicken Sausage from the freezer with it for lunch today.

Cole Slaw
Cabbage/dressing. That one is pretty much a "how your family likes it" thing...All I do is use the Marzetti low fat Slaw dressing on cabbage.

Blueberry Honey Greek Yogurt
1 cup Greek yogurt
Drizzle with honey, sprinkle with blueberries (I used frozen) and about a T of sliced toasted almonds.



There is enough of this pork left over to make at least 3 more meals!