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Pork butt was on sale at the local grocery this week, and when it is on sale our usual thing is to get the largest amount we can afford, then we divide it up and freeze it in pieces small enough to fit in the pressure cooker.
In case you weren't aware, as I wasn't back when I still laughed at the term "pork butt", it is actually the shoulder of the pig. It is generally sold with a bone in, which is a huge pain to deal with since it has a complicated shape and there's quite a bit of thick, tough fat on this cut of meat, which makes it difficult to divide it up when raw.
Anyway, what we do with it is what is really important, right?
STEW RECIPE
Take 2 pounds of frozen pork butt.
Put it in your instant pot with a 28 ounce can of tomato sauce.
Use the empty tomato sauce can to add about a half cup of water, just to loosen up the sauce a bit and ensure that none burns to the bottom before the meat starts to thaw and cook.
Add Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning (I like about 1.5 tablespoons for a meal this size but if you prefer more heat you can put in as much as you can like, it is good stuff)
Pressure cook it for around 40 minutes. This may require some adjustment depending on the size and temperament of your cooker. After 40 minutes is up, depressurize immediately, and add about a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar. This will help finish breaking up the connective tissues in the meat while you are cooking your vegetables.
Core a cabbage, cut it in half, cut those halves in to quarters. Stack these wedges around the sides of the pot, making sure to press them down in to the sauce really well so that all of the cabbage inside and out is touching sauce.
Got room for potatoes? Then wash some potatoes and cut them up in to halves or quarters depending on what you like, and make sure they are also touched all over by the sauce.
Put in a shitload of green olives. Unless you don't like those. In which case, go find someone else's recipe, this one is for people who like those.
Put the pressure back on for 10 to 20 minutes, depending on how done you want your cabbage. If you like it sloppy and falling apart, 20 minutes. At only 10 minutes it will still be somewhat crisp.
Eat.
GAMING STUFF
My wife and I have been doing a little multiplayer together still, though we have both been spending more time than before in our own games or playing with others. Mostly we play Stardew Valley together. We're doing a Jojamart run this time, which has turned out to be SO much less stressful than the community center run that it may be quite a while before I tolerate the community center again in my own private playthroughs. Only needing to worry about money in that game is actually quite relaxing. We have also been doing the new Remnant 2 DLC somewhat slowly. It adds a lot of fun new stuff and a few cool new characters to interact with throughout your journey. Highly recommend the entire game and both DLCs currently available.
Personally, I have been steadily grinding in Fallout 76, which I have 1300 hours in as of this post. Still having fun. And, I'm somewhat obligated to have fun as my birthday gift this year from my wife was a 1 year subscription to Fallout 1st, which I also highly recommend if you can afford it and are already an enjoyer of Fallout 76.
I have also picked GTA Online back up for the first time in 5 years. There's so much to do now that it is almost overwhelming! So many ways to make money, but more importantly there are so many new vehicles to play with. My favorite non-programmed/undirected activity is offroading. I like to drive my Rumpo Custom around in the hills of Blaine County on the north side of the map, its a real good time as far as I am concerned. I haven't actually been making much money since I have only been screwing around with that and flying some of my planes thus far. I did happen to join a crew for the new Cluckin Bell heist last night, which was pretty fun and slightly profitable to boot. Perhaps soon I will hit the cash grind for real and purchase some new vehicles to hoon around in.
The best thing they improved about GTA Online, however, is that you can now run all of the jobs in invite-only lobbies, which means when you're moving your goods around or flying a mission specific plane or whatever you won't get blown up by a 12 year old who doesn't care about wasting your time because his is comparatively infinite.
As a final note on GTA online, and the final part of this blog, it is very important to me that the game actually does not have servers (except for those which facilitate the information sharing necessary for matchmaking purposes) and is in fact fully peer-to-peer. So nobody will be able to take GTA Online away from us, as it should keep mostly working even if Rockstar burned to the ground tomorrow.
Unfortunately public lobbies are still full of spam advertisements for services that will probably steal your account, and hackers/modders, which is terrible to see, as R* have had many years now to figure this shit out and it just never changes.
That's all I got for now you can stop reading and go chop up some pork butt for that stew.
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flan
I was a little taken aback when I first read "pork butt" but man this sounds good
It is simple, easy to put together, doesn't require lots of tending or stirring, and most importantly, very tasty and easy on the teeth. After stewing in the acid bath that is tomato sauce and cider vinegar, the pork gets tender enough to start falling apart, but doesn't develop that horrible dry taste that meat sometimes gets when you stew it for too long. We eat it pretty frequently here.
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