"Yeah, can you get me about 5 pounds of pork butt?" he said.
"For what?" I asked. And then I realized I should never question a man asking for pork butt because something delicious is going to come from it. So off to the store I went and found a nice hunk of pork butt for my man.
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| Mike's Miracle Hangover Cure |
A couple days later, Mike put the pork butt in the oven and slow cooked it overnight. He's teaching an 8 am class so he's always up before me. So at 6:30 in the morning, half awake, I hear him stirring in the kitchen, and I smell the delicious pork he's taking out of the oven. I'm almost asleep again when he shows up with a piece of the pork in his fingers.
"Here, you want to try it?" Uh, of course. And it was wonderful and left me wanting to eat all 5 lbs.
So what did we do with 5 lbs of pork? What didn't we do! First Mike made a breakfast hash after a late Friday night out with friends with cubed potatoes, bacon, pork, scallions, and a poached egg, which we called "Mike's Miracle Hangover Cure". Then that night we made bánh mì sandwiches, named after the Vietnamese word for bread. We filled the sandwiches with jalapeños, asian cabbage slaw, pickled carrots, and of course, pork. And last night, we made pork barbecue sandwiches with cole slaw.
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| bánh mì sandwich assembly |
What's your favorite pork recipe?
I've only ever used it for pulled pork - my first attempt was for a Superbowl party this year and it was so-so. I'd love to have more recipes as it's a pretty inexpensive cut of meat (right?) and easy to make in a slow cooker!
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