Food prep

[sraun]

Yesterday the house smelled of a crockpot with two onions, two pork roasts, and a bottle of Jack Daniels #7 Barbecue Sauce. Today it smelled of the liquid from yesterday being reduced. I also shredded the pork this afternoon.

Saturday I'll toss the shredded pork, the reduced liquid, and two more bottles of Jack Daniels barbecue sauce (one #7, one Honey something) into the crockpot. This will all turn into barbecue shredded pork sandwiches. I'll keep the barbecue sauce bottles in case anyone wants to check the ingredients list - I'm doing all this in prep for the Minn-StF meeting we're hosting.

Comments

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummy. Time to get a pork roast.

[lonotter.livejournal.com]

Serendipity. Yesterday I had a pork roast in the crock pot with apple juice, garlic, and various seasonings. Now it's shredded in a casserole dish with A-1 Thick & Hearty, some of the cooking liquid and sauteed onions, for The Sprout to put in the oven when he gets home. I think it needs another bottle of A-1 or something, but I need to stop and get buns tonight anyway.

Do you buy your pork at the grocery store? I finally gave up on Jewel, and then Dominic's, after too many packages of pork gone bad prematurely. Fortunately, there's both an independent store and an honest-to-Ghu meat market just down the road.

[sraun]

We've never had any problem with meat from Rainbow or Cub. If we ever do - and maybe sometime just because - there's Everett's less than a mile away. The last I heard, Everett's was the butcher of choice for a number of professionals.

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

Can we come to your house for dinner? ;)
Oops, wait - I bet there's some form of MSG in that sauce. Oh well.
Still, sounds awfully yummy. Now I want barbecue some time this weekend...

[sraun]

Sure you can come - but it would be rather a long trip!

No MSG that I can find. This is what I can find that's more chemical than food - HFCS, Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, "Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey Flavoring (Natural & Artifical Flavors)".

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

That's very encouraging. It's very hard to find a barbecue sauce that doesn't contain MSG or one of the high-MSG process food streams such as "autolyzed yeast extract", "modified food starch", "hydrolyzed soy protein" and so on. It's got so bad I've been toying with the idea of making my own BBQ sauce from scratch.

[lonotter.livejournal.com]

My mother found this recipe in a newspaper umpteen years ago. It's very very good (I don't know why I haven't made it myself lately, duh...), not too sweet, not too spicy. Not knowing diddly-squat about what may or may not have MSG you may still have to substitute, but it's a start.

* 2 bottles (24 ounce) ketchup
* 1/2 cup cider vinegar
* 2 tablespoons chili powder
* 1/4 cup (packed) brown sugar
* 3 bay leaves
* 2 cups chopped onions
* 1/2 cup Worcesteshire sauce
* 1 cup margarine (I think this really means margarine - Mom usually cooked with butter at this point in time)
* 6 garlic cloves, crushed
* 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
* 1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke (optional)
* 4 1/2 cups beer

Mix and bring to boil, simmer 1 hour. Take out bay leaves. Store covered in refrigerator 1 or 2 days to mellow. Can be frozen.

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

from the recipe, that sounds like it might not be too bad. I will file it and maybe give it a whirl some day. Thanks!