Hmmm Smoky Pork

Date & Time: June 12, 2008 6:30pm (Max’s Birthday and my half birthday I’m 35 and a half; I didn’t get any gifts)

Main Course: This past Saturday for Delia’s party I awoke at 4:30 am and lit the Weber gas grill and began smoking two 6 pound county pork roast (with the shoulder bone). Each pork roast was rubbed with a different spice rub the night before. Prior to putting the roasts on the grill I put the disposable aluminum pan filled with water to help keep everything steamy and a couple of chunks of wood for the smoking. I reinstalled the grates and promptly punctured the disposable aluminum tray releasing about a gallon of water into the grill. 5am is apparently too early for me to competently complete simple tasks… A second tray was located and the smoking resumed. After seven hours, lots of wood chunks and water tray refills the roasts reached an internal temperature of 175 a little short of the 190 I needed to easily pull the pork. I was hungry and the guests were arriving so the pork was chopped and not pulled. Either way the pork was excellent. And now back to burrito night… We had left over smoky pork tacos with flour or corn tortilla. The pork was still very good even though it had been frozen since Sunday. There’s still about a pound left for a future burrito night. Hmmmm. Noah had a cheese quesadilla, crazy kid…

Sides: Chips, jalapeño and garlic hot sauce, low fat sour cream, black beans w/ chorizo, preshredded Mexican cheese.

Beverage / Libation: large bottom of white wine. It was commented that a cork screw was required; this isn’t our normal screw top wine.…

Desert: The boys each had some sort of ice-cream/popsicle thingy. Wyatt enjoyed cotton candy flavor and Noah had rainbow. Not sure what a rainbow tastes like.

Guests: The regulars, Tom and Sue.

NATE