Guinea Pigs

No, I didn't eat them. I did have one over for dinner. His name was Antuan and he gave me two thumbs up on my slow cooked pulled pork made from pantry items.

Last night, I decided that I was going to make this pork shoulder, slow cooked, so that it could be a low maintenance dish. Previously, I have slow cooked chicken and beef and I know how to make bbq sauce for a beef recipe. I had to improvise with pork.

I used: salt, pepper, red wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar, ketchup, garlic, cumin, chili powder, vegetable broth, cinnamon and brown sugar. Basically everything and the kitchen sink.

I marinated this overnight and threw it in the pot this morning on the way out the door at 7:00. Fast forward 10 hours...delicious, fall-off-the-bone pork.

The real improvisation? I made the berry cake thing out of crap that I threw together in the pantry. Including applesauce, which I found is a nice solution to oil, which I have been out of since before this challenge started. I added the requisite flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla, whatever and I baked it. I did forget to measure some ingredients and the cake kind of came out uncake-like. More like a breakfast bread, which works well because I am almost out of smoothies and patience for that blender.

All in all, a good night, although now I have depleted a major meat component from the freezer. I am sensing the beginning of the end....