Pulled Pork...Yummers!

BBQ Pulled Pork

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Yield: 3-5 lbs
Time:  10-11 hours

3-5 lb pork roast
Salt & pepper to taste
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp chili powder
Campbell's Slow Cooker Sauces-Apple Bourbon BBQ
1/3 18 oz bottle Sweet Baby Ray's Award Winning Barbecue Sauce
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
2 oz tomato paste
1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce
3 tbsp coffee

Combine all ingredients in crock pot and cook on low 8 hours.  Remove lid and shred pork; it will be fork-tender.  Leave lid off, turn crock pot on high and allow sauce to reduce/thicken 2-3 hours, until desired consistency.

Potato Pancakes

Anne Burrell
Yield:  4-5 servings
Time:  Varies

5 russet potatoes, grated
about 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
salt
3 russet potatoes, boiled with smashed garlic clove & mashed
2 eggs
salt & pepper to taste
vegetable oil, for frrying

Drizzle vinegar over grated potatoes and sprinkle with salt, in a strainer.  Weigh down the grated potatoes, preferably with a plate and heavy can, for 30 minutes.  During this time, boil the other 3 potatoes and mash.  Combine mashed and grated potatoes.  Add in eggs.  Season to taste.
Heat oil in frying pan on just over medium heat.  Form potato mixture into thin patties and fry until golden brown on each side.  To keep warm, turn oven on 225-250° and place cooked potato pancakes on cooling rack with a cookie sheet under it.

More Info 

BBQ Pulled Pork

I know.  Using the Slow Cooker Sauce and the BBQ Sauce is cheating.  But let me explain the beginnings of this recipe.  We were using the Slow Cooker Sauce by itself on our pork roasts, but then my family started complaining that the flavor was weak.  So the next month, when I bought it and was about to cook with it, I started to look around my kitchen for ways to bump up the flavor.  And thus, this recipe was created.
Obviously, because of the cooking time, this needs to be started in the morning.  Which is pretty much why the coffee got added to this recipe.  It was there, because my step-father was drinking it.
We eat our pulled pork on hamburger buns; I, personally, like my pulled pork on a hamburger bun with a thin layer of mayonnaise on both sides, a slice of cheese, and thinly sliced onion.  Like the title says...yummers!

Potato Pancakes

Okay, first of all, I highly recommend following the original recipe.  Head over to Food Network's website and search for potato pancakes, and use Anne Burrell's recipe.  My recipe is different because I didn't get a chance to get out and buy Yukon Gold potatoes.  Which probably would be much better for this recipe.
Secondly, I made my potato mixture during the first couple of hours of the BBQ and refrigerated it.  So this is a recipe you can do ahead of time and cook at the last minute.
Thirdly, when I say to form these into thin patties, I mean really thin.  Otherwise the grated potatoes don't cook correctly and the texture is very odd.
Also, I know this recipe is called potato pancakes, which will make most think German, and that the sides for this should be sour cream or apple sauce.  However, my brother said that these reminded him more of hash browns, and both he and I ate ours with ketchup instead of the traditional condiments for this dish.
If you follow the original recipe, you most likely will get a far different result than you will get if you follow my recipe.  For one thing, yukon golds are naturally more creamy than russets, so they'll cook more easily, too.
Also, I had to go out and buy a grater for this recipe.  Because my old one has gone missing somehow.  But that's beside the point.  I got a cheap one at Wal-Mart.  $3.24 (before tax).  I think it might've been the Mainstays brand, but I'm unsure; the label was the Mainstays colors (blue, black, and white) and it was under a bunch of Mainstays brand items, but the label didn't actually say Mainstays.

Overall Meal

So if you put the roast on at 7 in the morning, dinner will be ready by 5 or 6.  When the sauce for the pulled pork is getting close to where you want it, start cooking the potato pancakes.  Serve with a vegetable side or a salad, if you wish (I didn't, but a salad probably would've been nice with this meal).  Set out pickles (I recommend sweet or bread and butter pickles, to balance with the pork a little bit), mayonnaise, ketchup, cheese, sliced onion, and hamburger buns.  These are just the condiments I recommend, you can certainly add/take away to/from this.  Anyway, I hope you enjoy this as much as my family did.

UPDATED 02/13/14:

• Added links under recipe titles to credited source

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