COCON de LAIT PoBOYS and PEPPER VINEGAR

Cochon de Lait PoBoy

Do This in the Crockpot!

1 (5-6 lb.) pork butt

6 cloves garlic chopped

1/2 c. Sliced green onion

1/8 tsp. thyme

1/8 tsp. basil

1 Tbsp. salt

1 tsp. red pepper flakes

1jalapeño pepper, chopped

Stab pork in about 8 places with a paring knife but don't go all the way through.  Combine other ingredients and stuff them into the holes.  Salt and pepper the roast and either smoke it or roast it in the oven at around 225 degrees (that's low In the crockpot) for around 12 hours.  It should be really tender.

Pull the meat away from the fat and discard the fat.  Slice the meat as thinly as you can rather than chop it.  Put some shredded cabbage or coleslaw on some French bread then top with meat.  You can anoint it with hot sauce, barbeque sauce or a coarse mustard mayonnaise (4 parts mayo to 1 part coarse seeded mustard-add some minced garlic, adicec green onion or two if you like).  Use your imagination and tour taste buds. Have fun.

Pepper Vinegar

... is a snappy condiment for barbecue and barbecue-related foods. What couldn’t you dress up with a bottle of vinegar flavored with hot chiles?

It’s easy to make your own. Use a sterilized narrow-necked bottle; fill with any combination of small chiles (birds eye, tabasco, and cayenne are common) after piercing each pepper pod with a sterilized needle so that the vinegar can get into each pepper pod and NOT  FLOAT.  Heat white or cider vinegar and pour over the peppers. Close tightly and let sit in a cool place for a couple of weeks before using. Just replenish the vinegar in the bottle as you use it up. If you want to increase the heat,   Purée 2 T kosher salt and a small handful of chiles in a blender and put the puree in the bottle with the whole peppers and vinegar.

Vinegar is a preservative, so you needn’t worry about the peppers going bad.

Pepper vinegar is a snappy condiment for barbecue and barbecue-related foods. No "mess" of greens was ready to serve without abottle on the table.  Fried chicken in particular takes on a sassy personality after being doused with Hot Pepper Vinegar.  What couldn’t you dress up with a bottle of vinegar flavored with hot chiles?  The longer it sits, the more 

Personality it takes on.  Needs no refrigeration.

This is the OLD New Orleans way that was common all over the South.