Simple pleasures.....

Yesterday I loaded the car kiln in order to fire today, and long before I started loading, I began a Boston butt and a pound of Italian sausages on the smoker. The butt was smoked until around 4 when I had to move it to the grill so it would be done enough to eat for supper. I thought starting it at 7:30 yesterday morning would give me plenty of time. Wrong. Anyway, the whole time I was loading the kiln I could smell the hickory smoking that shoulder, as the smoker is in my kiln shed too. Even after we ate supper, and I returned to loading the kiln, the aroma still clung in the air out there. Other than bacon cooking and coffee perking, I'm not sure there are too many things that smell more enticing than pork being slowly cooked over hickory. It was delicious, and my 2nd. attempt at smoking a Boston butt. I was in kind of a Costa Rican gustatory mood last night, and what is more Costa Rican than black beans and white rice? They go well with pork too. The beans were simmered with diced and sauteed tomatoes, onion and garlic, along with fresh cilantro and Lizano salsa. Except for a little pork, there were no leftovers.