Sassafraspete's pork butt saga

sassafraspete · Dec 30, 2004

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Bird, You cook it long and slow.....at 195 internal temps, it should be real tender. Then you put on the vinyl / rubber gloves and start pulling it apart with your hands....discarding fat and bones of course. I may have been pushing some? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The blackeyed peas....or how about crowders.....sound pretty good to me.

johnday · Dec 30, 2004

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Bird; Tell your wife Happy Birthday for me, my SIL and I share that day too! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Bird · Dec 30, 2004

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Well, thank you and Happy Birthday to you and your SIL, too, John. Of course, it's the next one that my wife and I look forward to since that's when she can start drawing her social security checks. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Bird · Dec 30, 2004

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( how about crowders )

Yep, I like those, too, but you gotta have blackeyed peas on New Year's Day. And I've made "pulled" pork before; just didn't know that's what you called it. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

JJT · Dec 31, 2004

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Pete, Looks great, but you have way more patience than me. I take a pork tenderloain, throw it, a sliced onion, a few garlic cloves and some water into the crockpot and come back in 6 hours. Dump the stock, shred the pork and throw it back into the pot with some homemade sauce.

Glenn9643 · Dec 31, 2004

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I did forget about the blackeyed peas, but they're always there on New Year's here.
I've fooled around and my green patch is about gone from the hard freezes, except for the spinach but it's not ready yet. I am lucky to have a good produce section at my local grocery that's been keeping me in mustard greens. They'll replace the traditional cabbage for us.

HickoryNut · Dec 31, 2004

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I moved my smoker into my tractor shed and now do most of my cooking when its raining and can't go outside to play. I do plan to put some sheet metal on that wall behind it, there is water and a fire extinguisher also. Wouldn't bother me a whole lot if this cheap shed did burn down as long as I got my tractor out!

HickoryNut · Dec 31, 2004

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Thin blue smoke from seasoned hickory, the waiting is the hardest part.

EastTexFrank · Dec 31, 2004

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( The family dog "Alex" is wondering if I have gone crazy? )

And he's not the only one !!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif What are you doing BBQing in that white stuff??? Do you know what would happen at our house if my wife saw that !!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

It sounds and looks great, I wish I could smell it.

We'll be over at my M-I-L, the same as usual. I don't know how many people will be there or what we'll be having but I guarantee that there will be plenty of it and it'll be good. I can usually manage to stay awake for the black-eyed peas and rice at midnight but I start to fade shortly after that.

In case I lay in bed late tomorrow, everybody have a great New Years.

Oh, just had a thought. I can't stay in bed too late, Texas A&M and Tennessee play in the Cotton Bowl. My wife went to Tennessee (she's almost one of a kind in East Texas) but just about all the rest of her family went to A&M. It'll make for some interesting phone calls during the game. Personally, I hope Tennessee wins, it'll just make the rest of the year a lot more pleasant. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

sassafraspete · Dec 31, 2004

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Hickorynut.... I'm just an amature....looks like you are a professional at it. Ever smoke any deer?

To all the southerners eating black eyed peas.... I'll have to say that I was introduced to them by my wife. She has some southern roots... her grandpappy migrated to Bedford Indiana to work in the limestone industry, after having been a stonecutter in Georgia. At first the blackeyed peas were too different for my tastebuds...but I really do like the milder Crowder peas much better. Anyhow, my wife changed my life around and now I am a convert to okra, turnip greens, crowder peas and such. I've grown everything talked about here. I've found that northern deer like those blackeye peas pretty well too. I'm still not much for grits...but they are ok.

The crockpot process couldn't nearly be as fun as choppin down a hickory tree, spitting it into kindling, aging the wood, getting a fire going, being patient for hours while tending over like a mother hen, and of course smelling like wood smoke at the end of the day, while stomping thru snow and mud. I never was one known for doing things the easy way.

Folks...don't overdose on the football tomorrow......