Pulled Pork with Baked Beans

I like pulled pork. When they're good, it melts in your mouth. I looked up how to do this and it seem easy. Lets do this.

3 lb pork shoulder roast
2 cloves of garlic
a big can of baked beans as side
chili powder
salt and pepper
1/2 cup of barbecue sauce, I like Sweet Baby Ray's.
1/4 cup of vinegar



First take the roast and spread salt, pepper, chili powder, and minced garlic all over it. Put it a oven pan and cover it with foil. You got to make it bake in its own sweat or it'll dry. Bake the roast at 350 for 4 hours. Yes, it takes that long to break down the meat so it will be tender. Meanwhile, just chill.

After the 4 hours, let the meat sit and resoak some of the juice back into the meat. Then use two forks to shred it. The meat should just fall right off.



Do this in the oven pan so it can soak up the rest of the juice that got baked off. I then put it in a pot to mix with the vinegar and BBQ sauce over low heat. Just mix it well, add more chili powder, pepper, whatever you want.

Throw the beans in another pot and just heat it up and you got a side.

You can put the pulled pork on buns for a sandwich, but I'm not a big bread guy. So I eat it with a fork on a plate.



This was absolutely delicious. I love it. Plus I got enough to last me a couple more meals. Shoulder roast have just enough fat on it to make it melt. Ohh man, foodgasm..

-a

Lazy man's Seafood Gumbo

I had toothache and didn't feeling chewing much. I'm making gumbo!
I looked up how to make gumbo from scratch and just didn't feel like doing all the work. I bought some gumbo mix, a bunch of vegetables and went to work.



1 pack of Zatarain's Gumbo mix. (They're so good it doesn't make sense to make it from scratch)
a few stalks of celery
a yellow onion
a stem of green onion
a couple mild peppers (I'm not sure what kind, below is a picture of it, maybe you know what kind)
a can of crab meat
about a dozen oysters (thanks mom)
Random dashes of Louisiana hot sauce



I threw everything except the crab and oysters in a big pot, add 6 cups of water and bring to a boil. Simmer for ten minutes and throw in the crab and oysters. Simmer for another 15 minutes and it's ready.



I was good. The oyster goes great with the gumbo. Everything was perfect. Yeah, using prepackaged mix might be cheating considering that I'm writing a cooking blog about it. It was good and I don't care.

-a

Pan seared ribeye steak

Simple steak, I've done steak before and did them quite well. But this is a new method that I'm trying out. Usually, I throw a steak and a pan and cook until done at medium rare like I like it. This time I'm going to just sear the outside at super high heat and finish it in the oven. It is suppose to create a caramelized outer crust that is gonna be tasty. Here it goes!

Ribeye steak, about 2/3 pound, an inch thick
sea salt
fresh grounded pepper
oil
frozen broccolis as a side



First I rub the salt and pepper on both sides and let the steak rest until it's room temperature. Then I heat the pan at high heat for a few minutes. Add the oil and let that get super hot. Meanwhile the oven is preheating to 275.

Throw the steak on, 2 minutes a side. It already look delicious. Throw it in the oven. I think this part need some adjusting. I was busy doing laundry and other stuff and lost track of time here. So I don't know how long it was in there for. Frozen broccolis are being microwaved now too.

Put everything on th plate for picture time.



This steak probably could've ben good, but I overcooked it. I like steak at medium rare and it came out medium well.



I had to use steak sauce to chew down this shoe leather. As thin this steak is, I probably could've skipped the whole oven part. The caramelized crust thing was good though. The outside of the steak was actually excellent, just the dried and tough overcooked inside that I didn't like. I've done better steak before. This kinda suck.

-a

Goat cheese pizza

I've had this one time at some restaurant, forgot where or what's the name of the restaurant. It was good and I'm gonna try to remake it. Goat cheese is expensive but if this comes out as good as the restaurant had it, it will be worth it. This is not really a eat till you're full type of meal, more a fancy appetizer thing. If this is good, next pot luck type thing, this is what I'll make. Yes, invite me to more stuff please.

1 thin crust pizza crust
2 packages of crumbled goat cheese
a handful of grapes
2 sausages
some olive oil.



First I spread the olive oil on one side of the crust and spread the goat cheese on top of it. cut up the grapes in halves and put them all over the pizza. Cut up the sausage in small pieces and do the same. This might a a part where I can go either way, I used raw sausage and most internet recipes with other sausage pizza uses cooked sausage. I think I just have to bake them longer.



I baked it at 350 for about 45 minutes. I had to completely cook the sausage. The crust turned out crispy. Exactly how I wanted it.



It turned out awesome. Cheese is a bit strong so it's not a really eat until you're full pizza. But perfect if cut up smaller as finger food, for those fancy schmancy parties. Probably really good with wine.

Throw more parties, people.

-a