Boston Butt

It's raining here today, and you know, there's nothing that I would rather do on a rainy day

than get in my kitchen and cook. I just adore doing that. I'd rather do that than eat it

when I'm hungry. So today we're going to start with a Boston butt. The very, very first secret

to cooking good barbecue in the kitchen is a liquid smoke. This will give it a flavor

just like it's been on your barbecue grill. Put about, oh, maybe two tablespoons

And now we're just gonna season him up good. This is so easy to do. Now, I've sprinkled him good with house seasoning

and now I'm gonna use a seasoning salt on him. And remember, I'll always be telling you

to rub your meat. Rub those seasonings into your meat. And look at that

You see all that beautiful marbling in there. This is gonna be a good barbecue

Now we're going to put him in the pan, and I'm going to put just a few bay leaves in

Those are small, so I'll stick four in there. And about a cup of water Just enough so that he won stick to the bottom of the pot And then throw an onion on him

We've now got a delicious Southern Oven Roasted BBQ. Now you can cover him with the lid or you can cover him with an aluminum foil

It really doesn't matter. But he just needs to be sealed up for that first cooking

Now, I'm not going to bend y'all's ear with all my boring stories today

Waiting on that butt to cook. I've got one ready for you. So let's take him out and see if he's ready

He smells out of this world. Depending on what size butt you got, you're looking at probably

I think this was a five pounder. So we're looking at about two and a half or three hours

Oh, look. I might have your beet bucket head. All right, let's just, oh, he's just sizzling

And you can see all those onions Those onions have almost caramelized down there in that pork stock

Oh, it's so good. My mother, lots of times on Sunday, would cook a pork roast

and she would make the most wonderful pork roasting gravy you ever tasted

So we're just going to get this out of our way so I can get up here to this butt

I'm gonna show you a couple of different ways that you can serve this

You can see how tender and moist and juicy. There is nothing any better than hot Boston butt

out of the oven, nothing. People are funny about their barbecue down south

You know, they really know what they like and what they don't like. Some people like sliced barbecue pork, some like chopped

Personally, I like my barbecue separate from my sauce. Some people like theirs mixed up

I'm going to do it both ways. Now that's ready for a sandwich

And I like to use white bread normally but today I think I going to try it with wheat to just see how it tastes I hope y enjoyed Buckethead and his barbecue today He and my boyfriend Michael grew up

together, played football together, they were just big buddies. And it just got to be a

running joke on Wilmington Island that they were boyfriends. And any time they'd go anywhere

they'd go into a bar and Buckethead would say, send my boyfriend down there a drink

And then one day, my little dogs ran away with me chasing behind them, trying to stop them

And I ran straight into Michael. And you know what? From that day on, Buckethead didn't have a boyfriend no more

In fact, I think old Buckethead's just now starting to warm up to me after over a year

I love him to death. And you know what? I don't even have a plate up here

But that's all right. I don't think this one's ever going to hit the plate

It's just as good with the wheat bread