Spicy Pulled Pork
What shall I say about this? Let’s see. Well, first, this one is notable because it was the very first recipe in my Dutch Oven. It did quite well even though it nearly broke the wire racks because it was so heavy. Wowsers. What else? Let’s see…hmmm…what else can I say before I give this a not so fantastic review? Oh, let’s just get to it.
I think this recipe gave me high hopes! Really high hopes! It’s called spicy and man, did I want spicy. As in, I hope this pork is so full of spice and flavor that Lexi complains and I have to eat her leftovers. Well, it was not so. It is not that the pork was bad. Because in fact, it was yummy as far as pork shoulder goes. All the kids ate it and it received compliments. I rather enjoyed squeezing the limes over it and felt like the Austin-ite that PW described. But I don’t know, it surely was not spicy and except for the pieces that were on the outside it was barely flavorful. I also find it quite tedious to pull the uber-heavy dutch oven out every single hour to turn the meat. I guess what I’m saying is I’d rather just stick a Boston Butt in my crockpot and call it a day.
This, my friends, is what you need to go buy the ingredients for and make TONIGHT. Seriously. I just laughed a little as I read PW’s post and she said the exact same thing. But we’re serious, folks. It is SO GOOD. And before you go, I should tell you you can find prunes in a can where all the dried fruits are. That will save you about 15 minutes of shopping the fresh fruits and vegetable aisles and then asking a cashier about them.
Overall this cake was super easy to make. The hardest part is figuring out when to quit cooking the caramel topping but it is so worth it. So. worth it. The caramel seeps in to the cake and makes it so moist. Everyone had seconds and sometimes thirds for dessert and I might have eaten it for breakfast as well and we might only have one piece left. It’s in her breakfast section in the cookbook but had there been an eat any time, all the time of the day section, this would be in it. Go make it. Now!
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I was disappointed with this roast too! 🙁 So excited to try it, but definitely bummed when we were done. We did ours in the crock pot (I'm a pastor's wife – I love me some crock pot cookin'!), so I didn't have to turn it over and over again. The meat was great – moist and tender – but the flavor was boring. I ended up mixing in some BBQ sauce!
I've been avoiding the prune cake, because COME ON…prunes? But after your suggestion, I guess I'll have to try it. It better be good!
A few days ago I decided since I'm a horrible cook to try out some of Pioneer Woman's recipes. Well, I started with the blackberry cobbler, subbed the blackberries with strawberries and boy was that a disaster! I should have stuck to blackberries. But all her recipes sound so good! And I want to keep trying, its good that you've set out to make all of them though and review them, haha it helps me know which to avoid.
do it! i just made it again yesterday!
i subbed blueberries when i made it and it was great! try that if you don't like blackberries.