With a second on-sale Boston Butt pork shoulder waiting for some good use last week, and knowing it was ending its useful lifespan, I took time Wedensday night a week ago to prep it for a very long slow cook, taking me all the way into last Thursday afternoon. I like this as a variation on my most common approach to pulled pork barbecue, and I definitely appreciate how easy the slow cooker makes it.
That Thursday proved to have a lot going on in and around the house. I'd noticed water slowly draining up out of my new city water meter for the irrigation system and finally opened it up to find it was full of water. I put in a call to my contact at PF Plumbing and the guys were here lickety-split. Turns out the whole meter itself was loose so they pulled it out and completely reinstalled it.
North Spring Street is also getting a resurfacing:
Because very little notice is given to the dwellers on these blocks for projects like this, there was a lot of frantic attempts to contact neighbors whose cars were about to be towed. It's also just entertaining to watch the process of scraping and prepping for the new top layer of asphalt to come. This was also the day for the twice-yearly maintenance appointment with Webb Heating and Air Conditioning, with system testing, condensate pump clean-out, filter changes, and full cleaning of the heat pump coils.
Pulled Pork based primarily on "Slow Cooker Texas Pulled Pork," from cmccreight on AllRecipes.com.
Barbecue Sauce for serving was adapted from "Sweet and Tangy Barbecue Sauce" from recipe for "Indoor Pulled Pork," by Bryan Roof. In Cook's Illustrated, January & February 2010 (No. 102), p. 6-7.
Sweet Southern Coleslaw based on recipe from Allison M. Jones.
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