The Traveling Epicurean

CT Style with Ryan & Teresa making my “Pulled Pork While You Sleep” recipe!

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CT Style with Ryan & Teresa making my “Pulled Pork While You Sleep” recipe!

Wow! I can’t even begin to tell how much I look forward to doing The Traveling Epicurean cooking segments on “CT Style” at WTNH, Channel 8 in New Haven, Connecticut!  Everyone down at the studio is really wonderful and it’s always exciting cooking with Ryan Kristafer and Teresa Dufour! Being in the Bender Kitchen with them is so natural, everything seems to fall in place. The improv conversation, the banter back and forth and the laughs are undeniably my favorite. That’s what cooking should be all about. That’s what The Traveling Epicurean is all about, sharing family recipes in the kitchen, working together and enjoying each others company!

I came up with this “Pulled Pork While Sleep” recipe because I’m usually juggling my time during the week with all the different events and obligations going on between my kids and I. You coat the pork butt with a brown sugar and spice mixture, lay it on a bed of sliced onions and celery, add 2 cups of Coke, cover tightly with foil and bake at 275º for 8 hours, in the oven at 11:00pm and out at 7:00am! Violà!

What I love about this dish is it’s simpicity and that there’s enough for several different meals during the week or you can freeze the left overs for a later date! If you are wondering where to buy your pork butt for this “Pulled Pork While You Sleep” recipe you ought to check out Ferraro’s Meat King. They carry everything you can imagine, have incredible customer service and professional butchers that can help you out with any questions you might have! I am certainly grateful for their sponsorship on this CT Style cooking segment.

If you like pulled pork you may want to try HOMEMADE BBQ SAUCE that’s to die for with this recipe, Pulled Beef Taco’s with Mango Salsa, Mediterranean Chicken Kabobs, Chicken Piccata and, or some desserts like Death By Chocolate Meringue Pie or my Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies!

 

 

 

INGREDIENTS for Pulled Pork While You Sleep:

  • 8-14 lbs. Boneless Pork Butts, Bone in it ok too
  • 2 cups light brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp garlic granules
  • 1 tbsp onion granules
  • 1 tbsp SMOKED Paprika (Spanish)
  • 1 tbsp Chipotle spices
  • 1 tsp Colemans dry mustard
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp finely ground pepper
  • 1tsp finely ground Italian seasonings
  • 2 cups coke & rootbeer OR 2 coke OR 2 rootbeer
  • 1 lg vidalia onion sliced into 1/2″ slices
  • 1 stalk celery cut up into 3″ pieces
  • 1 Mango Salsa Recipe
  • 1 pkg shredded sharp cheddar
  • 1 pkg flout tortillas
  • 2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce
  • 1 Broccoli Slaw reicpe
  • OR my HOMEMADE BBQ SAUCE

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Pre-Heat oven to 275º
  2. Add all dry spices and sugar to a bowl and mix thoroughly
  3. Place onion and celery pieces in the bottom of a lg 18″ x 13″ x 3″ approx. and place the pork butt(s) on top
  4. Rub brown sugar/spice mix all over pork butt(s) and lay the pork so the fat side is facing up
  5. Cover tightly with foil for 8 hrs. WHILE YOU SLEEP!
  6. In the morning remove from oven and let cool so you can handle the meat
  7. Remove all the fat and place in a bake dish
  8. Skim fat off pan juices and add 1-2 cups of the juice back to pork to desired moistness
  9. Wrap in tortilla’s with cheese, lettuce and Mango salsa OR
  10. Add Homemade BBQ Sauce to desired texture  if you are making BBQ slider and top with Broccoli slaw…enjoy!