Junkfood of the Mind

This started out from the instructions posted by the lovely and talented Breda. I decided to re-post it with more detail after a couple experiments to determine how I liked it.

Ingredients:
Pork 'picnic shoulder'
2 medium onions (white, yellow, red or vidalia - whatever is your preference)
1 or 2 bell peppers (red, green, yellow, whatever)
4 large cloves fresh garlic
Bottle of cheap bbq sauce

optional:
1-4 jalapeno, scotch bonnet or whatever your favorite variety of chile (these really do not add heat, but do contribute a fruity pepper flavor)


Spices (adjust to taste):
Salt 3T
black pepper 1T
garlic powder 1t
brown sugar 1t (optional)
paprika 1/2t (optional)
onion powder 1/2t (optional)
cumin 1/4t (optional)


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Prep: 30 to 60 min

Chop the peppers and onions, rough chop 3 or 4 large cloves of garlic, drop it all in your crock pot with 1/4 cup of water (or cheap beer)

Get the pork out of the netting, take out the pop-up thermometer. Rub the spice mix all over the pork, drop it in the crock pot on top of everything else.

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Stash this in the fridge (covered tightly with plastic wrap so your fridge doesn't get onion funk) until you are ready to cook it.

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Cooking:

Put the crock on low 10 hours before dinner time, or on high 5 hours before. Low and slow is better. The longer you leave it go the more tender the pork gets and the more flavor it takes in from the aromatics.

Don't take the lid off while it is cooking.

No, seriously, leave it the hell alone.

Cooking time up, the onions should be caramelized and wonderful cooked pork odors should be escaping your crock pot.

Remove the roast from the pot. It will probably fall apart. Put it in a bowl. Dump the contents of the crock out and rinse it briefly.

Shred the pork with a pair of forks, put the shredded meat back in the still warm crock with barbecue sauce to taste (I like mine fully wet but not swimming in sauce)

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Yield:

I get about 16 sandwiches that I can pick up and eat without dribbling pork on myself. 

I suspect this would freeze well in individual servings.  It has not as yet lasted long enough to try that.

Via Lawdog

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
2. Find page 123.
3. Find the first five sentences.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

He hurried home, down streets which were now dark. Perhaps because of that darkness, Mike allowed his steps to have more of a swagger than he usually did, now that he was a man well into his thirties and enjoyed the august title of President of the United States. The same cocky swagger with which years earlier, as a young professional boxer, he had entered the ring.

1633 by David Weber and Eric Flint.

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The Declaration of Independence

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refuted his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

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