North Carolina pulled pork sandwich bento

Spent Sunday smoking a couple of pork butts on our kludged-together flowerpot smoker for pulled pork sandwiches. All packed in my Nissan Stainless thermal lunch jar to keep the cole slaw fresh and cool.

 

• bun cut to fit the container
• homemade pulled pork, smoked for 15 hours
• vinegar hot sauce for the pork
• homemade buttermilk coleslaw
• blackberries and “mango nectarines” — a new kind of nectarine with a slight taste/texture of mangos (quite good!)

 

Here’s the pork shoulder on the smoker.

 

Insulated smoker kludged together from flower pots and an electric coil burner a la Alton Brown’s Good Eats — our first smoker (details here). We’re looking at getting a proper smoker now that we’re really into it.

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