Skinny Cow

Today’s Kroger Free Friday item is one bottle of Skinny Cow Creamy Iced coffee! I love getting this product in mocha!

Don’t forget to clip this coupon by the end of today on either your mobile Kroger app or their website.

Pulled Pork

Last weekend, Kroger had pork boston butt (ie pork shoulder) on sale for $1.99 a pound. I decided that I wanted to buy one.

I already had some Kraft Sweet and Spicy Barbecue Sauce that I had recently gotten for free from Kroger. Why not buy some hamburger buns and make pulled pork sandwiches? We did. And it was marvelous!

Since all of the pork shoulders were kind of huge (I found one of the smallest ones), I had the butcher at the meat counter cut it in half for me before I took it up to the counter. I don’t know if this is something that will happen at every grocery store, but, at least at my Kroger, this was a wonderful free service. At home, I put half in the freezer and half in the fridge.

The next morning, I made a spice rub that I had found online, put my half a pork slab in said bowl, and then proceeded to massage the mixture of brown sugar and spices into the meat.

Then I put it in the crock pot with 1/4 cup of water on low for exactly 8 hours.

I’ve read that, for most recipes at least, you can put something in the crock pot on low for 8-10 hours or on high for 4-5 hours.

I was so excited about the mouth-watering smell coming from the crock pot that I made sure to check it at the 8 hour mark. When I touched it with a steak knife, a piece of meat just fell off the rest of shoulder. And that is a very good sign.

Using a soup ladle and a fork, I transferred the meat to a big bowl. Then, I shredded it using two forks to pull it apart. Using my meat moving ladle, I scooped some of the meat juices from the crock pot into the bowl of shredded pork to keep it moist before adding an entire container of my sweet and spicy BBQ sauce and mixing it all up.

Did I mention that I noshed on perfectly cooked pork while shredding it? It was soooo good that I couldn’t resist!

Then, with that fiery sweet sauce, it was delectable on a hamburger bun. Kevin and both of our moms also very much enjoyed it and I am planning on making this again. I’m so glad that I tried it in the first place!

Spice Rub Recipe provided by HarleySmoker on Smoking Meat Forums

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 4 tbs paprika
• 1 tbs black pepper
• 1 tbs salt
• 1 tbs chili powder
• 1 tbs garlic powder
• 1 tbs onion powder
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper

I had considered buying a spice rub or even putting the meat in the crock pot without any sort of rub, but I did a Google search instead of making a hasty decision. When I found the above recipe, I realized that I had all of those ingredients so there was really no reason in my buying something that I could so easily make myself.

With all of those delicious spices and the spicy BBQ sauce that we had, I was concerned that the sandwiches would be way too spicy. But I thought they were wonderful. The spice rub did lend a delicious flavor to the pork, but it didn’t make it outrageously spicy. If you talk to my mom, she’ll tell you that her mouth was on fire, but she enjoyed every bit of it and couldn’t stop eating. One of those hurts in a good way moments.