Okay, this isn't any special recipe. Its super easy and probably 99% of the time comes out deliciously. But I wanted to blog about this because of a weird thing that I found on my roast. I bought the roast a few weeks ago on an awesome sale at Broulims. Its a 6 or 7 pound pork should roast and I bought it for $4. Pretty dang good, right? So this morning when I went to prepare it for the crockpot I put on the cutting board and noticed a rough feeling layer on top. I thought it was that little absorbent mat thing that other meat packaging has. However, when I tried to remove it, I just couldn't. I realized then, that it was the pig's skin! The actual skin! Pig skin still on my roast! Euww! It was the weirdest thing. I didn't know they leave the skin on some roasts! My roast was a pork shoulder picnic roast, and when I looked it up later it seemed that leaving the skin on these roasts was normal....weird but ok....
Anyway, on to the recipe. Its really simple. Put the roast into the crockpot, add carrots (baby or chopped), chop up a few potatoes and add those too. My mom often adds chopped onions as well, but I didn't have any on hand. I sprinkled the top with garlic salt and voila!
Its ready to sit in that crockpot for 8-10 hours on low or 6-8 on high. Yum!
When I was looking up the weird skin, I came across
this recipe for pulled pork using a pork shoulder roast. It looks so yummy! I think I'll try it in the near future....
