Smoked Pork .. Nummy Nums!!
Oh.. get you’re mind out of the gutter!!!
Those pictures are on my other blog!! LoL!! Just joking!
I was cleaning out my camera and found these pictures of pork butts that Chief was smoking.
We had a catering order back in November for a country line dance night at the local fire hall.
When we catered it last year, they wanted the standard stuff :: roast beef, meat balls, stuffed shells :: which were all good but when they came in this year, he talked them into a menu that was kind of related to country music more then stuffed shells were.
So he came up with Carolina Pulled Pork, Chili Braised Beef Brisket, Black Bean and Corn salad, Smokey Baked Beans, Spanish Rice and Home Made Corn Bread.
Oh. And salad.
Not having a real smoker didn’t stop him. He used our charcoal grill and some of the huckleberry wood from our tree out back.
NOTE: You can use any fruit tree to smoke but DO. NOT. USE. PINE. WOOD. like I had suggested because DUH! Where do you think Pine Sol comes from?? LoL!! THIS is why HE is the chef and I’m not!!
He let it smoke for something like a day.. going out every hour or so to flip them over and to baste them with a mixture of cider vinegar, crushed red pepper, salt and water.
Oh.. before he even started to smoke it, he rubbed the meat down with brown sugar, cayenne pepper, salt and chili powder.. wrapped it up tight in plastic wrap and let it sit in the fridge for two days.
Let me tell you something, the aroma was AMAZING and everyone in our neighborhood was salavating!
Too bad it was for a catering gig, huh?
No worries, he had made another one for us!!
But seriously, it was really.. really easy to do and the meat just split right off of it with a fork.
I never had anything soooo good in my life!
So if you get the ambition to give it a try, let me know how you make out.
No.. in fact, invite me over for dinner and I’ll let you know myself!!
LIVING ME 101 