Best Beer Bacon Pulled Pork Ever

Welcome to my first Punk Pig post. I decided to start this blog to document some of the things I make (since I'm terrible at writing things down) so I can refer to them in the future. I'm currently a 25 year old punk rock guitarist that plays in a couple of bands (Vagiant Boston and Anarchcunts) with a dream of hopefully opening my own home based catering business someday. Being a musician and a "professional" sandwich maker I'm broke so this is currently a pipe dream. But maybe someday I will grow up and have enough money to buy a van and a catering license but for now I'll blog. This blog will mostly be a collection of "recipes", I quote the word recipes because I probably won't be providing many exact measurements of ingredients. I believe the best way to learn when you cook is to decide for yourself, by taste, when you have too much or not enough of something. You should also be able to look at a list of ingredients and decide from the get go what you would like to add or take a way from the recipe to make it your own. This is important, no one just wants to be a copy-cat. Cooking is an art! Art is self expression. Believe that! Although this blog will mostly consist of "recipes" I may, from time to time, go off on tangents on something amazing I ate on tour or something that my fucking amazing upstairs neighbor cooked or talk about amazing chefs that are also musicians. These things are cool to me so I will include them here. I also will start including videos when I decide to not cook in my pajamas. Anyway enough boring talk about me and my stupid life let's get going as I'm sure you all love Beer and Bacon.

BEER BACON PULLED PORK!

This recipe was a hit at a potluck recently and I want to share it with you all before I forget how to make it myself.

Here is a list of things you will need.
BACON
1 package of Country style pork ribs
1 onion
1 chopped garlic
Beef broth cubes
Guiness or Heineken
caraway seeds
salt and peppers
and any other seasonings you want (paprkika, garlic, thyme leaves, oregano...use your imagination!)
Optional: sauerkraut, BBQ sauce, and Heinz 57 sauce.
Dutch Oven, or in my case a giant sauce pan since I don't have a dutch oven, but this recipe would probably work better with one. Before you begin pop on The Exploding Hearts album, Guitar Romantic, because you will probably have a heart attack after eating this...plus that record rules.





Step One:
Cook the bacon in the pot you plan on making the pork in. Let it cook in it's own juices, moving it around so it doesnt stick to the pot. Remove the bacon after cooking and break it up and put it to the side. Leave the grease in the pot.

Other step one: While cooking the bacon, in a seperate pan boil water with one or two (depending on how much pork you want to make) beef broth cubes until cubes are disolved.

Step Two: Brown the pork in the bacon grease then set the pork aside.

Step Three: Add Beef broth and one onion to the pot and let the onions cook for a few minutes.

Step Four. Put the pork back in the pan and pour a can and a half or so of beer over the pork and onions. I like to use Heineken for this one because it adds a special flavor (and I'm a Heineken junky) to it but Guiness is also always a good choice when cooking with beer. Now is the time to add any initial spices to the mix. I like to use caraway seeds since they are fairly common in pork recipes and they provide a very mild anise-like flavor when used sparingly. I also always add salt and pepper to almost everything. And I almost always finely chop in everything because of it's health benefits. Add your spices and let your mix simmer on slow for 3-4 hours, slowly cooking the pork until the meat falls of the bones.

Step 5: Check your pot often taste testing the mix and adding more spices if necessary.

Step 6: Drain the mix leaving only the pork behind. Save your homeade broth for something else later...not sure what I'm going to use it for yet but that shit's in the freezer. Take your pork, taste it...good, right? And add sauerkraut if you want. Also add the bacon bits from earlier to the pork mix. Add barbeque sauce if you want. I'm trying to work on a recipe for home-made bbq sauce but it kind of squares me so for now I'm a fan of Jack Daniels no 7. I don't add the bbq sauce in the mix but I bring it with me as an option for people to add it to their sandwiches. I did however throw in a little bit of Heinz 57 sauce to add a kick to the pork.

Step 7: Don't skimp on rolls. Buy or make your own kickass rolls to serve with you pulled pork, good bread makes a difference.

Step 8: Serve and enjoy your home-made fatty beery pulled pork...everyone else will!