Great Memorial Day Weekend

This was a pretty chill weekend here in Raleigh. Months ago our neighbors decided to have a Memorial Day party. Check out Jer’s flyer here. Memorial Day is my favorite among the holiday weekends because it is typically right on top of my birthday. People are always having parties on my birthday and it’s great! Jer smoked four pork shoulders and they all turned out magnificently. We actually had to borrow Charlie’s smoker (not the hotrod, but the angry fiery fellow below) so we’d have enough space to smoke all of them at one time.

Last year, Jer had two shoulders cooking most of the day and as soon as they were done they were gone so we figured we’d smoke 2 for the party and split the other shoulders. This year was no different, the crowd was looking restless…. We managed to save one shoulder to split.

The rest of the food was awesome too, in part because we used the right butter!

Guess which one we used!
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This one?

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Or this one?

Did you realize they sold this stuff in stores?
Click on the picture to see them!

It's just her knees taped in from the backside of the package. Get your mind out of gutter!

Jer, thanks for creating the art and showing it off at the party! I must have lived a sheltered life--I'd never seen this trick with the the butter package.