Meal No. 283: Pork Barbecue & Blue Cheese Cole Slaw

The Roediger House was the site of a birthday and graduation gathering, and it seemed like a good time to break out the indoor pulled pork barbecue recipe. I also made some of that famous blue cheese coleslaw to go with it, and threw in baked beans for good measure.

There are certainly much easier recipes to follow to get a delicious chocolate eclair cake, but I found myself tempted by the fancied up-everything-from-scratch (sort of) version touted by Cook's Country magazine. I'd say it is a definite winner. It made a chocolate eclair cake of a different stripe and it will from time to time be well worth the extra trouble.

This evening was supposed to be a chance to bring in the fifth season of the Roediger House movie nights, but the threats of thunderstorms were too great and too likely, so instead it was a porch-party night. Which was every bit as good, if not better. A late night, and lots of beer bottles to recycle, but I think folks had themselves quite a good time.

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Indoor Pulled Pork Barbecue, in Cook's Illustrated, No. 102, January-February 2010, p. 6-7.

Blue Cheese Coleslaw, from Ina Garten:http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/blue-cheese-cole-slaw-recipe/index.html

"Creamy Chocolate Éclair Cake," from Cook's Country, June/July 2011, p. 25.