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Told you to remind me.
Here ya go:
You'll need a pork shoulder & you can get small (about 2lbs or so) pork shoulder roasts at No Frills for about $5. I think the company is called legacy meats. These usually give you about 7 or 8 good sized pulled pork sandwiches.
Step 1:
Make your spice rub using whatever flavours you like. Go easy on the salt, as pork is inherently salty.
I usually go with some cumin, smoked paprika, onion pwder, garlic powder, ground oregano, cayenne pepper, ground chipotle pepper, black pepper, and a bit of salt. Either use a spice grinder or mortar & pestle to gind it/mix it all up so that every bit of the rub carries an even flavour. This mix about gives you a nice smokey/sweet taste.
Rub that on the meat all over & let it sit if you can because it gives it a better flavour, but you can fire it straight into the oven & it still comes out fine.
Step 2:
Turn on the oven to 275 & let it come up to temp.
Step 3:
Put the roast into whatever vessel you like, and add about a cm of water to the bottom of it to make sure the drippings don't burn. I use a small dutch oven with a tight fitting lid, but you can also use a glass pan with tinfoil covering it. The key is to make sure the seal is fairly snug.
Put in the oven for about 4 hours. What your looking for is for the meat to basically fall apart with just a fork clawing it.
Step 4:
Take the pork out & set it into a bowl. Shred it using a couple of forks. It'll come apart with no effort whatsoever.
Step 5:
Make the sauce!
Take the the pan, pour off most of the fat, & then put it on the burner at medium heat. Add a splash of apple cider vinegar once the pan is hot to delgaze it and stir to get all the nice brown bits off the bottom of the pan. Then add some ketchup & dijon mustard at a roughly 2:1 ratio along with any spices you want and a splash of water & stir that up. Let it come up to a simmer for a couple minutes until it thickens a bit & then add it to the bowl with the pork & stir it all together.
Step 6:
Put that pulled pork on the best kaiser bun you can find & eat it!
So easy & it's proper filling too.
Best enjoyed with lots of beer & football!
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