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.

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