We cook: Barbecue Pork

This is the first thing that we cooked with our slow cooker.  Being from SC, DH was very excited to make barbecue and I have to say it was delicious!  This was rather time consuming, but not very complicated and it made enough food for us to have 16 servings of meat (when eating about 1 sandwich worth at a time rather than stuffing your face...which is hard not to do with something like barbecue).  We've eaten half of the meat with dinner for a week and the other half is in the freezer.

DH bought about 5 lbs of pork.  I'm not sure how much it cost, we were hoping to wait for a slightly better sale but were too excited for BBQ!  Still, $15-$20 for 16 meals worth of meat is not too bad : )

YUM!

Ingredients

• Boston Butt Roast
• 1/4 cup water
• Onion
• 1 bottle of your favorite Barbecue Sauce
• Salt & Pepper

Instructions

1. Cut onion in half and place halves in crock pot
2. Add water to crock pot
3. Put pork on top of onion halves and salt and pepper the top slightly
4. Cover and cook on HIGH for 1 hour
5. Cook on LOW for 7 - 9 hours.  You know it's done when it is tender and easily pulls off of the bone/shreds and is not pink.
6. Remove meat, pour out fat, onions, and grease, and clean the pot.
7. Shred the meat with forks and put the shredded meat back into the cleaned crock pot
8. Add barbecue sauce (we used 1 full bottle of sauce but you may want slightly more or less depending on preference and how much meat there is)
9. Cook on low for 1 hour

If you want to freeze the meat, make sure to portion it into sizes that you will want to thaw together.