Several weeks ago my wife and daughter had a pig roast lunch at their church, and they both ended up liking the “Pulled Pork Sandwiches”. They even brought quite a bit of the leftovers home.
I found a small pork shoulder at the store and bought it.
Out on the grill for about 2 hours
This little piggy doesn’t know what’s in store for it
fork,fork,fork,chop,chop,wack,wack!!!
DINNER TIME !!!!!!
Since my wife didn’t get any sides to go with dinner, there was just baked potatoes.
Well, at least my Father’s Day post is more timely than my Mother’s Day post !
My mother was in England and my father was invited by other in laws for the day so it was just my in laws this day.
It could have well have been called “Meat-A-Paloza” with all that I made !!
We start out with a nice slab of St. Louis style ribs. I sprinkled a little “Soul Food” seasoning on them before wrapping them up in foil. They cooked for about an hour before I unwrapped them and began putting BBQ sauce on them.
We had a package of leg quarters, so I cut them up into pieces.
Ahhh, the wings.
Yep, I de-boned most of them.
Some jalapeno peppers and cream cheese
The peppers stuffed with the cream cheese and soon to be inserted into the boneless wings.
Here’s most of the food cooking.
Asparagus wrapped in prosciutto.
The prosciutto got nice and crisp.
What may have been at one time a chicken.
Mmmmmmm, PORK !!!!!
Bean salad, pilaf, fruit salad (and of course MEAT !!)
The grill was way to filled to cook the wings, so I saved them for the next day.
These nasty bastards were incredible !!!
I can’t wait to whip up another batch soon.
I received a text from my wife while she was at the grocery store:
“beef ribs on special, want?”
My reply:
“only if they are short ribs”
I know my cow parts, those ain’t short ribs.
I usually don’t buy the back ribs because generally there isn’t a lot of meat on them and they do seem to be tougher.
But this time, I wrapped them in foil and cooked them for about an hour before I put the BBQ sauce on them.
No one else would eat the ribs so a side order of bone in pork chops was cooked also. “Bone in” is the only way to go !! (double entendre !!) See that little round piece of meat near the tail of the bone that’s surrounded by fat?? Best part ever !!
Had a couple of Brat buns leftover from a previous dinner.
Made a little bit of compound butter with garlic salt in it for a spread.
Toasted on the grill to crispy goodness.
I’m the guy that BBQ “experts” tell you not to cook like. I like my BBQ sauce burnt and caramelized on my food
Lunch for the next week.
I had some leftover ham from a dinner a few nights ago so I thought I would put it together with rice. I am really enjoying having rice every day. I am making the rice with that same package of “Spicy Szechuan” that I have used for making my chicken and it does a nice job of jazzing up the white rice.
Also, as part of my being a “Mad Scientist” in the kitchen, I used a package of “Chinese Barbecue” to flavor the ham.
(The Mad Scientist part comes in because I did NOT follow the directions on the package!!)
Still having the yogurt and fruit for breakfast
The directions on the package called for marinating the meat and then baking. I just mixed it up and added it to the fry pan and cooked. I had to add a bit of cornstarch to thicken it up. At this point, I have yet to even sample or taste what I made. As far as I know, this will be a disaster come lunchtime on Monday !!!
One of my favorite things about Asian food is the presentation. In my opinion, Asians make much more of a point to add to the visual presentation of the food. Seeing the color of this dish makes it much more appealing to me then just plain ham.
The good news is that I am down 3 pounds in two weeks. That’s a little less than I would like, but there are still 10 weeks to go. The above photo is one lunch. Do you think it is still too much !!??!!
