Louisville Skewers

I am trying something new - an alternative method of grilling a pork shoulder roast.  We usually buy pork shoulders (Boston Butt) and then carve them into two chunks since there is just the two of us.  Generally (meaning "always up until today") I smoke them on my Weber grill with indirect heat, a pot of water and hickory or apple wood chips.  It turns into pulled pork BBQ and is quite good.  I favor a cross between the Carolina vinegar-based BBQ sauce and the Tennessee tomato-based version and sweeten the whole pot up with extra sugars (light brown sugar and "maple surple").

Today is a different deal - someone's getting "bored" with pulled pork.  Not sure how that happens.  So I went searching for an idea to use with the four halves of a Boston Butt shoulder roast sitting in my freezer.

Lo and behold surfaces a Phillipino recipe for carved shoulder roast that is skewered and grilled.  Now I have altered the original intent by marinating and basting with that BBQ sauce of mine, but here they are grilling away with a butterflied chicken and some hickory chunks on the Weber.  I used steel skewers instead of wooden so I didn't have to worry about the cooking time destroying the skewers.

We have no idea how these will turn out and if it is worthwhile I'll share.  Got to admit they look delish.

Part of My Retirement Package

A couple of months ago at about 6AM Henri and I were coming down the front steps for his morning constitutional.  In the front lawn lay a doe and she was giving birth to fawns.  Two of them.  One of the fawns was on his feet and the other was being cleaned up by the momma deer.  Eventually, they both made it up on their own.  The fawns looked to be around 14 or 15 inches tall and about as long.

Henri saw them but kept his distance.  The doe saw us, but was over-occupied and didn't react.

Here it is in July and now the fawns are around three feet tall and getting some size to them. 

I took this picture yesterday morning around 10AM.  They were just lounging under a pine tree in the early heat of the day.   Its all part of my retirement package - I frankly probably never would have slowed down enough to even notice these two little guys, much less had the chance to grab my camera and get a snapshot.

I like retirement.