{"id":595,"date":"2012-04-02T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:45:37","slug":"a-sunday-pork-roast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"A Sunday Pork Roast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cooked-Pork-Shoulder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-597\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Cooked Pork Shoulder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cooked-Pork-Shoulder-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cooked-Pork-Shoulder-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cooked-Pork-Shoulder-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Cooked-Pork-Shoulder.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>After a late start to Sunday at <a title=\"Down Under Bakery (DUB) Pies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=587\">DUB Pies<\/a>, Iggy and I made our way down to the super market to pick-up something for dinner. \u00c2\u00a0Right away I headed to the meat section to see if today was a cheap roast day. \u00c2\u00a0I wasn&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0disappointed; pork\u00c2\u00a0shoulder was only $1.19 a pound. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve seen $0.89 a pound, but $1.19 is still a good deal. \u00c2\u00a0I grabbed a smaller, eight pound, slab of meat. \u00c2\u00a0Right away, I knew what the rest of the simple recipe would be.<\/p>\n<p>I came-up with this a few years ago when I was home visiting Minnesota and at mother&#8217;s house without a car. \u00c2\u00a0My mom had left me a pork loin and a recipe. \u00c2\u00a0Though she seemed to over look the fact that the house was missing half the ingredients in that recipe. \u00c2\u00a0Undeterred, I found some apples, onions, a bit of garlic, and a bit of apple cider\u00c2\u00a0vinegar. \u00c2\u00a0Put it all together in a ceramic roasting pan covered it and let the flavors come together. \u00c2\u00a0The result was a moist piece of meat, with a sweet apple sauce on the side, that has become my template for many a meal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What You&#8217;ll Need:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some pork (shoulder, butt, loin, or whatever cut you&#8217;re in the mood for)<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of apples<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of onions<\/li>\n<li>Cider vinegar<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fish_sauce\">Fish sauce<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Cook It:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-596 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Pork Should, Pre-Cooking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Pork-Should-Pre-Cooking-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Pork-Should-Pre-Cooking-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Pork-Should-Pre-Cooking-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Pork-Should-Pre-Cooking.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Put the meat in a dutch oven (or some other heavy roasting device with a lid). \u00c2\u00a0If you have a pork shoulder, or other fatty cut of meat, be sure to put the fatty side-up so that the juices run down over the meat over the hours of cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Cut some big chunks of apple and onions and fill in the sides and the space above the meat. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;ll be packed in there, but everything is going to cook way down. \u00c2\u00a0Throw in a bit of apple cider vinegar, maybe a quarter to half a cup. \u00c2\u00a0Add a little fish sauce. \u00c2\u00a0This is some what optional, but the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umami\">umami <\/a>in the fish sauce will help bring out the flavors. \u00c2\u00a0Tread lightly with this stuff though, while a few tablespoons will bring out the flavors, too much will be a\u00c2\u00a0disaster\u00c2\u00a0(take a wiff of the bottle and you&#8217;ll know what I mean). \u00c2\u00a0Give the garlic a rough chop and mix it in on the sides of the meat.<\/p>\n<p>Now cover this bad boy, put it in the oven, and let it cook for hours. \u00c2\u00a0For a pork shoulder, target maybe 45 minutes a pound. \u00c2\u00a0Uncover for the last 30-45 minutes or so to give the meat a nice crisp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Result:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-598\" title=\"Pork Shoulder on a Plate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Pork-Shoulder-on-a-Plate-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Pork-Shoulder-on-a-Plate-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Pork-Shoulder-on-a-Plate-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Pork-Shoulder-on-a-Plate.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The apple and onion cook way down and fall apart and mix with the pork dripping to form a sweet and savory apple sauce perfect for pork. \u00c2\u00a0After hours of cooking, the meat falls off the bone and practically shreds itself. \u00c2\u00a0As an added benefit, your home will be filled with wonderful Sunday cooking smells.<\/p>\n<p>After the Sunday night meal, you&#8217;re almost sure to have left overs. \u00c2\u00a0The shredded pork and sauce can then easily become a great pulled pork\u00c2\u00a0sandwich\u00c2\u00a0(just add some BBQ sauce) or some pulled pork taco. \u00c2\u00a0The Sunday meal that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a late start to Sunday at DUB Pies, Iggy and I made our way down to the super market to pick-up something for dinner. \u00c2\u00a0Right away I headed to the meat section to see if today was a cheap roast day. \u00c2\u00a0I wasn&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0disappointed; pork\u00c2\u00a0shoulder was only $1.19 a pound. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve seen $0.89 a pound, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,60,54],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","tag-cheap-eats","tag-pork","tag-roast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}