bbq pork crockpot
actually started day before yesterday soaking some beans with a little baking soda/powder to soften teh outside . didn't have the rigth kind white beans only had pinto and red, but life is full of compromises.
then yesterday, really night before that but was after midnite, so... i woke up / couldn't sleep (same thing thse days just like right now) and started putting away most of the meat off the spiral ham in containers for deep freeze, then the bone and meat around it went into the crockpot, and beans went onto the stove to boil a while till they were really soft.
spices added some brown sugar, celery seed, sprinkle of 'italian' seasoning, cinnamon, lots of paprika, pinch of anise, pinch of 5-pepper seasoning, some black pepper, something else i forget right now. no salt cuz it already has peltny in the ham itself--is almost like bacon so salty. oh, pinch of garlic, and soem whole rosemary seed. and maybe 1/4 cup of really dark balsamic vinegar. and lemon juice reconstituet stuff cuz i don't ahve fresh, and some fresh squished orange juce and some orange peel. lemon peel would be better but didn't have.
poured off the liquid for doggienoms flavoring, and kept he beans there as the ham crockpotted a few hours to softwen it up and let me get it off te bones.
by doggie breakfast time it was boild down enough to fit msot of the beans in there. let it keep cooking till midday and put rest of beans in, couple hours later time for work so put it awya in fridge.
still needed crushed tomatoes or paste but didn't have any, had to wait til after work to get that. got peeled crushed at work, two of the medium sized cans, then when home while dogs munched on the bones i moveed it all from the now-too-small crockpot (cuz i still aint' found the big one in the shed, pretty sure i saw it after the fire though) into the big stove pot, 5 quart or whatever.
let that all stew with more vinegtar and more brown sugar, little more of each of hte others too, i guess about 3 hours more or less, before i called it done cuz i was too hugnry to wait more.
wuz nomz. :wink:
dogs wanted some too, i relented since they were too cute, and after moving the stuff to containers for fridge and freezer i rinsed the pans and poured the flavorwater in their dinner bowls, which they appricated.
it could be better but i forget what i spiced with last time i did something like this, and i don't hve my old spice rack or bottles or recicpies, that stuff all disappeared druing the fire cleanup process. but it's still nomz anyway, and i've got enough to experiment with little bits of added spices/etc as i warm up bowls of it when i get into it in the next few weeks.
normally i make stuff like this (stews, chilis, etc) in batches and freeze some and fridge some, and eat off them in turn so i don't get bored sily with things, but also don't spend all my time standing there cooking. i don't cook many individual meals anymore cuz it's too time consuming, and even thouh i get les variety it uusually costs less to do this, sometimes by a fair bit, and leaves more time for resting or beign with the dogs or whatever else i ahve energy for.
backstory to how i found spiral cut ham works ok for this
weeks ago, i'd crockpotted the remains of the spiral-cut ham i'd gotten around thanksgiving, which i'd eaten on for a good while. the remains with the bone were around long enough to start smelling odd, which meant i probably shouldn't eat it, cuz my nose doesn't work right for bad meat anymore (long gross story) and if i could tell by smell something was off, it was probably really realy really off.
but there was too much to go to waste, and so i crockpotted the stuff for half a day to make doggie noms to add to their food as topping/flavoring for as long as it'd last, which was around a week or so i think as its' been gone for a good while now. coooked that long it probably wouldn't hurt even me anymore, but definitly ok for the dogs given the other stuff they find and eat in the yard sometimes.
anyway....while it was cooking, toward the end, it smelled soooooo goooood that i wanted some of it but didn't want to risk it just in case.
eventually i gave in and took a bowl and mixed in my bbq spices /etc and recooked it separately and it wuz nomz, and id idn't die from it, so....
so i waited till anothe rmega sale on spiral cut hams first week of feb and got me another one, and started collectin the ingredients for bbq pork again.