Pulled pork from this weekend

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Decided to BBQ a little this weekend, called up a few friends, and broke out the Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker. Bullet smokers are great little units, and this one is VERY well known and praised for how it makes backyard cooking a much more enjoyable experience. Seen a guy with 20+ of them at a BBQ competition once, it was quite the sight, as was the smell and taste the entire weekend. Wish we had these in Utah, last good one I was at was when in the Marines in North Carolina.

I’ve owned the WSM a season now and its prepared its fair share of smoky piggy goodness. I’m sure some of the neighbors are not too keen on me making the entire neighborhood smell so good, but I usually have 1 or 2 families over when I do this and they have partaken in feast so they do not put up much resistance.

I prepared the butt using Alton Browns method from “good eats pulled pork” episode. I did alter the rub a little bit by doubling the recipe, adding a teaspoon of old bay, and 2 teaspoons of chipotle pepper powder. Chipotle’s being smoked jalapenos in an adobo sauce then dried, just adds a little to the smoky flavor and kicks up the heat on the pallet a little more.

I will admit, I hate mayonnaise/ dressings, so I usually do not prepare your average party or picnic salads like potato salad or cole slaw, but pulled pork needs some sort of slaw. So I scoured the net and found one that does not use mayo but still sounded like it would be good. It was an older 2006 recipe of Emeril’s called “delta slaw”. Being it lacks mayo, its perfect for parties/ picnics even on hot days since mayo will turn to funk and dam near nuclear waste when heated (or all the time in the case of my taste buds, I just really do not like the stuff). I did change the method to prepare by doing the maceration the night before, then after the smoker was going, I stepped inside to do the “dressing” phase about 12 hours before guest arrived. I found I was able to rid about a cup of liquid squeezing after the maceration period and running it thru my salad spinner. I also ended up using just about 2/3 of the dressing made without it turning soupy which was about the only negative reviews on the delta salad.

I also made another batch of my favorite BBQ sauce that I found on youtube by “ballistic BBQ”. This guy has GOOD taste, everything I have tried of his has turned out just great. He just posted a porky cornbread that augments half of the traditional flour with crushed pork rinds. He still adds bacon, but who can turn down deep fried pork fat that is crushed in a processor? He calls it “pork flour”. Anyways, the sauce recipe is on his channel, it can be seen here

BBQ Sauce Recipe - YouTube

BBQ Sauce Recipe - YouTube

I did end up adding a little more pepper flakes this time and I did not strain it as I did during my 4th of July BBQ party. I was worried the seeds (coriander, peppers, pickling spice, etc) would be too hard, but after cooking and letting it set up, they were not, and kept the heat and flavor of the dish up. Highly recommend this dish for BBQ fans out there. Its GOOD!

Woke yesterday at 0400 to start up the smoker. I warned all the neighbors since we have had a lot of fires this season, including one in the back yard from the field kiddy corner from the back edge of the property that went up a few days before the 4th of July. Hope no one ever has to face down a decent fire from this distance. It’s something I hope to never have to go thru again. After the sun came up I took a few shots, meats been on about 4 hours at this point.





Sauce getting going


Back out to the smoker to add two more chunks of apple and one Jim Beam Oak barrel piece.


Checking the slaw and giving it a taste after about 6 hours after dressing time. GOOD GOOD GOOD!


Meat done…. The photo did not make it look so good, but it really was, wish I knew how to take photos


Okay, now I need to apologize here, I was busy eating and hanging out with friends to photo op the finished product so for lunch I was happy to warm up some leftovers and make up another plate so I could take these photos and make this post. Hope no one minds the leftovers….

Split bun with slaw on top half, and plenty of pork on bottom


Add some sauce, notice the seasoning suspended in the sauce, it really is tasty and recommend it for your next BBQ.


Combine and serve with sides of choice, I just reheated some baked beans


Hope no one minds the post, and thank you for the space and your time.

[Bonehead]

looks like some righteous Q!!

[kd5zmg]

looks delish', bet it tastes delish too.

[bijou]

Great looking food!

I wish my yard looked as nice as yours!

[Torked]

Damn that looks good...... I love some good BBQ!

Thanks for sharing! I will have to try that Sauce!



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Thanks guys, it was some good eats.

Bijou, also thank you. Some think the girl picked out the plants or take care of them, but once they see me tending them literally every night in one regard or another, so be it watering, trimming, weeding, picking (from the food plants), etc, they are amazed its a guy doing it all. I just see it as a way to give me an excuse to buy more power tools. Friday morning Amazon, via UPS, dropped off a new Husqvarna 125BVX 2cycle leaf blower/ leaf vac. Just like the smoker, got it 2nd day air for free. Actually I got the smoker next day air for $3.99 due to being a prime member, I make good use of that $80 a year charge.

I own a little toro electric model, but you need to get right on the leaf to move it, which with the trees you see in the back ground, can shed a load of leaves. There are 6 70ft or so columnar cotton woods (populars) alone that will be dropping leaves very soon with a handfull of other misc trees. I was able to blow the leaves clear into the street from mid front yard with this new blower. Was debating a backpack blower or this since it could vacuum too, might pick up the backpack model depending on funds and just leaving the handheld as a vacuum, but its a great unit so far, don't think I need to spend the other $300. Maybe put it as part of a XDs? Guess we will see. It nice to get out and do something with the yard and see people walking/ driving by admire the work, plus it just looks better, down the street this one guy just brown burned/ dead lawn, big pits from the occasional rain water gathering in them. Weeds in the sidewalk/ drive way. Just not for me. Next year the bucket garden will be raised beds/ square foot gardens along the entire fence line, hence why the lawn in the smoker shot looks a little iffy, just don't see the point in tending to it majorly if I'm going to rip it all out. That will be about 180sqft of garden space... IE a decent amount but only taking up 30" of space along the one rear open fence line.

[USAF452]

mmmmmmmm..... Barbecue.....

[kvo45acp]

that looks damned good

[shaner]

wow fantastic looking

[Stoley]

Looks fantastic! I have a Char-griller but I have been wanting a WSM for some time. Also we have the same plates, just thought I'd throe that out there

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