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Pulled Pork

No - I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth. I was away again to a few conferences. No interesting food there. Just regular conference food-bleh! I came home dying for some real food and some juice. We juice everyday and whenever we go away I get this craving for juice. Is it my body crying out for fresh fruit and vege or is it just in my head? Then we had a party to go to over the weekend so that was more unhealthy food. I'm not sure that you can consider pulled pork a healthy food but at least it is homemade. We've had a spate of pleasantly comfortable weather, and I decided to take advantage of it and make pulled pork. Beauty - eh? Pulled Pork 4 - 4 1/2lb pork shoulder* (bone removed and reserved for future use in sauce) 1T cumin 2T brown sugar 2T smokey paprika 1t chili powder 1t garlic powder olive oil Mix dry ingredients together and rub into meat (both sides). Sort of fold it back up, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for several hou...

Pulled Pork

So this was a happy mistake. I decided to make some pulled pork and when I was food shopping some pork belly caught my eye. I decided to buy that too. Since I was going to have the oven on for a whole bunch of hours for the pulled pork - why not throw some pork belly into the mix for future use. Well I'll tell you why not - they cook at different temperatures! So I decided to give the pulled pork a try in the pressure cooker. Let me tell you the results were great (the pictures - not so much). The pork belly came out well and is sitting in the freezer for a nice rainy day. I'm going to give directions for both the oven version and the pressure cooker version for the pulled pork. But I do think I'll be sticking with the pressure cooker version for now on. Pulled Pork 4lb boneless pork butt(or pork shoulder)* 3 T brown sugar 2 T smokey paprika 2 T dry mustard 2 T cumin salt/pepper 1 c water (if using pressure cooker) 1/4 c vinegar (if using pressure cooker) I...