The weekend of my graduation, we were so very lucky to have my parents, Matt's parents, my sister and her boyfriend, and my brother all in town for the celebration!
While there was a lot of catching up and visiting with each other, by far the most delicious part of the whole weekend was our cookout that Saturday. Matt got up early to start the main course - pulled pork. Just acquiring the pork butt (aka - Boston Butt or pork shoulder, but I like my name better) was a bit of a fiasco, as he wanted to get it from a particular store (for animal welfare reasons, which you might think is ironic since we then ate said animal, but that discussion's for another time/post) and in the end it took a few trips out there. But he get it, he did, and he started it smoking out on the grill early that morning. After bringing it in to finish it in the oven, having our power go out (yup, for 3 hours on a 102F day), then having to move it back out on the grill to finish it, the pork was done as stomachs started rumbling.
Coupled with sides brought by our lovely families, and some of Matt's homebrew beer, we had quite a feast!
Matt made homemade BBQ sauce, but provided store bought too, just in case people had different preferences. That bottle was never opened.
As if it needed a label...and sitting next to it is farmstand corn from the NJ coast - courtesy of Tom and Julie (Matt's Mom and Dad)
I know, this pic is horrible quality, but everyone was hungry and I thought fists might fly if I didn't let people start to dig in!
Completing the meal is a tomato, feta, and caper salad (thanks Julie!), fiesta black bean salad (thanks Momma!), MD watermelon (thanks again Momma!), and homemade buttermilk coleslaw (thanks Matt!).
disclaimer: i drooled a bit on my keyboard during the writing of this post.
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