Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

I am new to slow cooking. In fact my mantra of late has been fast cooking: the kind of cooking that can be whipped up in twenty minutes from when I come downstairs having left The Girls screaming put The Girls to bed to when DH walks through the door. My life involves short-cuts and cheats (hence the -esque in the blog title, in case you were wondering).

Now what better cheat could there be than to take a bunch of  prepared ingredients, shoving them into the cooker and leaving them for eight hours. Seriously? Why has it taken me so long to get behind the slow-cooker movement?

Anyhow, back to Tescos last week. I saw the hugest lump of meat  joint of Pork on special offer. I bought it because it was on offer, not having the first clue what to do with it, but when you are buying over 5kg of meat for a tenner, you know you’ll be able to find something. And I did:

Pulled Pork in the slow cooker

The recipe called for pork butt, not that I have a clue what that is, and I had shoulder, but I figured it would work anyhow.

The recipe also called for Diet Pepsi. I didn’t have that, so I used Diet Coke.

The recipe called for Barbecue Sauce. Nope, not that either. HP Fruity.

It’s kind of pathetic when a recipe calls for three ingredients and you have to use a substitute for every single one.

And do you know, it was awesome. So awesome that we are still eating it. So let me tell you a few things that you can do with 5kg of delicious pulled pork:

 

Freeze it, in batches. A little goes a long way.

Serve with mashed root vegetables, broccoli and some of the reduced sauce.

Slap in a bun with a dollop of applesauce.

Spoon over rice with a side of stir fried vegetables.

Make pulled pork tortillas with avocado, refried beans and some sour cream.

Put it between two tortillas, sprinkle with grated cheese and microwave for a minute or so.