I've been trying to figure out what i can do with my love of cooking for a little while now. Since I don't like the pressure of having to be quick in the kitchen I figured that becoming a chef would be bad idea, so I've (obviously) decided to start a blog. I will be posting pictures and recipes of the foods that I cook. So without any further adieu, tonight's diner: pulled pork sandwiches on homemade onion buns with an apple coleslaw.
I rubbed the pork roast with a basic paprika/brown sugar based dry rub and let it sit overnight in the fridge.
I cooked the roast at 225ºF until the thermometer read 200º. For this roast it took a little over 4 hours.
Here is the dough for the onion buns. I set it to rise in the sun.
I let the dough rise for 2 hours until it had doubled in size.
I formed the dough into 6 large buns and let them rise again for 30 minutes. In the meantime I sauteed half of and onion...
Actually it wasn't even half.. this onion was HUGE! (18" around.. I measured)
I brushed the buns with and egg wash and added the browned onions. They baked at 400ºF for roughly 25 minutes. They turned out a little too salty for my taste and the bottoms burned a little.. oops!
Any good pulled pork sandwich has a nice blob of coleslaw on it, and since nothing goes better with pork than apples I julienned a gala and a granny smith apple and added it to the store bought coleslaw mix.
I made a dressing with mayo, sour cream, oil, vinegar, and a touch of mustard, and seasoned it with sugar salt and pepper.
Finally I was ready to start assembling. I heated up some store bought BBQ sauce and mixed in some of the pulled pork, and here they are:
For dessert I made one of Simon's (my boyfriend) favourites, creme caramel. I've never made it before but with this boxed mix it was really easy!