gazerwolf

A few days ago Dorthy (our next door neighbor) called me over and asked me if I could do her a favor. She needed a 40 some pound pork shoulder carried to her car. She needed to take it to be sliced and she couldn't carry it.

I told her that it would be no problem and a few minutes later went over and did it.

Later that day she called me over again and handed me a few slices from it for us to use.

Now I have never cooked pork shoulder before so I really had no clue what I was going to do with this salt cured hunk of meat, but I took it anyway.

I took a short stab at googling pork shoulder recipes but nothing I saw looked interesting.

Yesterday I picked up some sliced potato cans and sliced carrot cans at the grocery figuring I couldn't go too wrong with crock potting it.

This morning the boys got me up early so I figured I might as well do it...so I put two slices of it in...a pound bag of pinto beans, I think three cans of potatoes...2 cans of carrots and enough water to cover it...and set it on low.

Smells great...I taste tested a bit of the sauce around noon and it didn't seem too salty to me (but I love salt). I added some minced onion and some garlic powder and some pepper and a bit of a Mrs Dash ripoff.

I taste tested it again a bit ago and it tastes pretty good...I turned it to warm to wait till starsongky gets home.

The boys were even interested (I don't expect them to eat much...they usually don't like things out of their experience.)