Pulled Pork Sliders

Pork shoulder roast / 5-7 lb. (Yields quite a bit of meat)

1 bottle beer

1 container beef broth

2 onions

1 Tbsp. Kitchen Bouquet

1 Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce

½ to 2/3 bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce

Blueberries or fruit of your choice if you want a sweeter addition

½ cup sugar

1 Tbsp. garlic powder

1 Tbsp. onion powder

2-4 cloves garlic, chopped fine

Salt & pepper to taste / you may want to up the garlic & onion powder to your taste

Cook shoulder roast at 325^o in the beer and beef broth / fat side up / covered 1 hour and uncovered 1 hour

Cut onions into bite sized pieces / caramelize in 2 Tbsp. olive oil

To cooked onions add 1 Tbsp. Kitchen Bouquet and 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire and simmer for short while and set aside.

Simmer together blueberries and sugar until blueberries almost cooked through / add BBQ sauce, chopped garlic and cooked onion mixture / simmer together @ 15 minutes or until garlic is cooked

Remove roast from the liquid. Reserve the liquid in case you need it.

Shred roast / remove all fat / place in large pot or original roasting pan

Stir in onions-blueberries-BBQ sauce mix / add powder ingredients / use beer/beef liquid if needed to make to your moisture preference.

I loaded on King’s Hawaiin Rolls / makes about 2 dozen

More Recipes

So I just received an email telling me I forgot some.

Here goes:

Curry Chicken Casserole

1 whole chicken / split down breast / smoke on outdoor grill with charcoal and pecan wood about 15 minutes.

Bring inside and cover with curry powder to the extent you like curry (I went light for Supper Club) and bake however you normally bake chicken. I cook in a Pampered chef ceramic baker with a lid /  325 degrees / with a tiny amount of water in the bottom / cook for 2 hours. Do not lift lid. It falls off the bones, which makes deboning and shredding easier.

1 large bag frozen corn, thawed (You can blacken it in a skillet if you wish)

4 cups cooked rice

2 large onions chopped and caramelized

½ large bag shredded cheese – whatever flavor you prefer

1 package Ramen noodles (uncooked) broken up

Shred or chop the chicken

Mix all ingredients with 1 can cream of mushroom soup and heat in oven on 350 for long enough to melt cheese.

Spicy Pimento Cheese Sandwiches

20 sandwiches

Pimento cheese is a comfort food, people have strong opinions about it, and the flavor ranges from rather sweet to mustardy dill. Experiment.

2 pounds cheese*, grated

2 blocks cream cheese room temp

2 large jars pimento or other roasted red pepper, well drained and chopped

1 cup mayo (only if needed for spread-ability) added at the end to get correct consistency.

1 Tbsp. Cayenne pepper – to taste

2 tsp. onion powder

Crumbled Bacon optional / use 1 package

*Cheese used is most often Velveeta, mild cheddar or Colby. Grind or grate it fresh, for some reason the pre-grated cheeses don't make nearly as good a spread. Combine all ingredients thoroughly. A 16 to 20 ounce sandwich loaf will yield 9 double sandwiches or 36 tea sandwiches.

Orange Cilantro Rice Chicken Casserole

One full, small bottle orange extract

One bunch Cilantro

One chicken smoked and baked

2 small bags almond pieces

1 stick real, unsalted butter

Make rice as normal, but include the extract in the water mixture

Chop the chicken while rice is cooking

Chop the leafy parts of the Cilantro

Put all ingredients in large bowl while rice still warm and mix in the butter. It will melt while you mix.

Put in large tin pan (lasagna pan) coated with non-stick cooking spray.

Heat when ready to eat.

Cut ingredients by half to fit 9 x 13 casserole dish.

Fig Philo Cups

Figs / cut in quarters

Two small bags walnuts toasted and chopped

1 wheel brie cheese

½ stick real unsalted butter

1/3 cup sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

Dash in yellow curry to taste – if you wish

Cook figs in sugar, butter and cinnamon

Add walnuts

Melt brie into mixture

Add curry to taste

Spoon in to Philo dough cups

Recipes You've Been Bugging Me For

I have no pictures to post with these, but I can tell you there are servers and cooks at both Outback and Red Lobster in Baytown that will drool when I bring them some of these dishes. I have found that you can put anything in a flour tortilla or a pita pocket to make for easier eating. Note that the pitas are prone to tear if you are not slow and gentle in the cutting and prying them open process.

I have put the following in pitas:
King Ranch Casserole - just have to make it less soupy than normal
Ham & Apple Salad
Chicken & Apple Salad
Lasagna - just make with less noodles and a thicker sauce than normal

Flour Tortillas: (and they are so much better if you heat the tortillas on a griddle on both sides until they puff before you stuff them.)
Roast & Caramelized Onions - recipe below
Shepherd's Pie
Taco Meat with Blackened Corn & Cheese
Chicken & Rice Casserole

My Ham Salad and my Chicken Salad and my Roast Tacos seem to be big hits. Here is as close to a recipe as I can get.

Ham Salad

Make First: Combine most of a regular size jar of Mayo / add Dijon mustard and some honey to taste

1 fully cooked spiral cut ham chopped into bite size chunks

3 Red Delicious apples chopped into small pieces / bathe the apples in the mayo combo to prevent browning

¼ cup chopped pecans / bathe chunks in the mayo mix to prevent turning brown

2 - 3 stalks celery chopped small

Shredded cheese of choice – medium size bag (I prefer sharp cheddar for this)

Combine everything in large bowl, removing the apples from the mayo mix by hand, then add mayo mix to desired consistency for your spread.

Chicken Salad

Shred 1 whole cooked chicken (boiled or baked, your choice) (If you want a twist on it, rub the chicken down with yellow curry powder and bake it. If you remove the skin you will need to add a little curry to the final mix.)

Add fruit of 1 pomegranate (or one small container of the fruit)

Maybe even add grapes if you like

Instead of Mayo mixture use bottled Kroger poppy seed dressing – might not take a full bottle

Chop apple and keep in poppy seed mix to prevent turning brown

Combine all ingredients in large bowl, removing the apples from poppy seed mix by hand, then use poppy seed dressing as needed for desired consistency. (I have flavored my poppy seed dressing with orange extract – 1 tbsp per bottle)

Roast Tacos

One large cheap roast.

Cook in 225 degree oven for two hours sitting in beef broth – about 1” of liquid / do not cover

Remove from oven and chop into large chunks

Cook on medium low heat on stove top in rest of the carton of beef broth, 3 – 4 tbsp of Kitchen Bouquet and about 2 Tbsp of Worchester sauce / cover and let it simmer 2 hours and stir every now and then. If your liquid looks like it is cooking away, adds small amounts. You don’t want this to be runny.

Caramelize onions in butter.

When meat is done, shred it, put one full stick of real, unsalted butter in it to melt while shredding and add onions.

This will load roughly 28 tacos loaded thin, or 15 loaded generously.

My apologies for those cooking for 2 or 5. I can only cook for 20-30. King's Hawaiin Rolls are also good to use, but I try to make these an easy-to-hold one-hand meal. They are usually eating on the run between tables.

And Here is the Biggie Everyone Wants:

Micro Gala Apple Confections

2 tubes crescent rolls

In a large bowl or the pot you are going to cook the mixture in combine:

1 ½ tsp. cinnamon

1/8 cup water

¼ cup white sugar

¼ cup brown sugar (pack the cup) can be dark or light

Cut and add to the sugar mixture:

4 medium size Gala or Granny Smith apples / quarter the apples, remove core and seeds, cut in small bite sized pieces, remove skin or leave on as you prefer / as you cut the pieces roll them around in the cinnamon sugar mixture in the bowl to prevent them from turning brown

Then Add:

½ stick unsalted real butter

Cook on medium heat until apples are soft

Next Add:

½ cup chopped pecans

1 Tbsp dark Karo syrup

1 Tbsp flour

Mix well and turn off heat

Add 2 oz. cream cheese and stir until it totally blends in

Let mixture cool before you put on pastry dough

Put a good tablespoon or more in a crescent roll and roll up

I dress the last rolled tip with Craisens or a whole pecan

Dust raw pastry with more cinnamon and sugar

Bake as recommended on crescent tube