Yesterday, I bought a Boston Butt Pork Roast (I have no idea why it's called a butt... from all of my research, it's a part of the shoulder?). Anyway, it was 99 cents a pound (essentially 1/2 price) so, I found the smallest one that I could (6lbs) and threw it in my cart!
It's pretty cold outside in Charlotte today (by my Florida standards) and I thought that it would be a good day to make some BBQ in the crock pot!
I decided that 6lbs was too much BBQ and it would surely go to waste if I made the whole thing (being that it's just me and Uriah), so I chopped that sucker in half. I plopped 1/2 of it in my crock pot with 1/2 a large onion and some salt and pepper and decided to freeze the other half for another time. It still looks like a LOT of pork but that's okay because I'm a big fan of leftovers!
I closed the lid and started cooking it on low for 4 1/2 hours. After that, I noticed that it wasn't cooking as quickly as I wanted (dinner would wind up being at approximately 9:30pm) so, I cut it up into 4 pieces and turned the crock pot on high.
I cooked it on high for about an hour and then I removed the onions and poured about 1/2 of an 18 oz. bottle of Hickory BBQ sauce and approximately 1.5 tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce over the meat, closed the lid and let it cook for another hour and a half.
Then, I shredded/chopped the pork up in the slow cooker and gave it a good stir. Cooked it on Low for another hour.
After all of that... it was ready.
I put some Tabasco sauce on mine (just a few shakes) and it was... delicious.
Best of all? Uriah loved it! He's not really picky but, when he really REALLY thinks that something is delicious, I can tell. He takes the first bite and his eyes get all big and he makes yummy sounds.
Big hit! And, really, it only cost (including the buns and the sauces) about $6. And, as anticipated, we have an abundance of leftovers. I'd say that's a (delicious) bargain!
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