I read your stew recipe with great interest. Every New Year's, I buy a pork shoulder or butt (whichever's cheaper, usually the shoulder), potatoes and sauerkraut to make my family's traditional New Year's pork & sauerkraut.
For decades I'd use the crockpot to cook it all in, but about six-seven years ago I started slow-roasting the pork …
I read your stew recipe with great interest. Every New Year's, I buy a pork shoulder or butt (whichever's cheaper, usually the shoulder), potatoes and sauerkraut to make my family's traditional New Year's pork & sauerkraut.
For decades I'd use the crockpot to cook it all in, but about six-seven years ago I started slow-roasting the pork overnight and then either putting it in the crockpot with potatoes, onions, the sauerkraut, herbs and spices (garlic, fennel, onion powder, sometimes smoked paprika), and a 12-oz. bottle of NA Beer, and letting it cook for 4-6 at HIGH, tasting about halfway and adding a bit of Worcestershire Sauce or "Kitchen Magic" to give it a bit of <i>umami</i>.
This year, for the first time, I deglazed the roasting pan instead with another bottle of NA beer (a good way to get rid of the bottle of O'Doul's Amber I somehow still had sitting around!) and put that in the pork & sauerkraut instead. I also simmered everything (having nuked the potatoes partway then cut them up, skins and all) for an hour in a saucepan rather than try and find the crockpot, which let me cook for one - usually our niece and my kid brother join us, but this year I'm on my own.
While I think the overall results are great, I'm wondering if anybody else does pork & sauerkraut for New Year's, and what your recipe might be....
I read your stew recipe with great interest. Every New Year's, I buy a pork shoulder or butt (whichever's cheaper, usually the shoulder), potatoes and sauerkraut to make my family's traditional New Year's pork & sauerkraut.
For decades I'd use the crockpot to cook it all in, but about six-seven years ago I started slow-roasting the pork overnight and then either putting it in the crockpot with potatoes, onions, the sauerkraut, herbs and spices (garlic, fennel, onion powder, sometimes smoked paprika), and a 12-oz. bottle of NA Beer, and letting it cook for 4-6 at HIGH, tasting about halfway and adding a bit of Worcestershire Sauce or "Kitchen Magic" to give it a bit of <i>umami</i>.
This year, for the first time, I deglazed the roasting pan instead with another bottle of NA beer (a good way to get rid of the bottle of O'Doul's Amber I somehow still had sitting around!) and put that in the pork & sauerkraut instead. I also simmered everything (having nuked the potatoes partway then cut them up, skins and all) for an hour in a saucepan rather than try and find the crockpot, which let me cook for one - usually our niece and my kid brother join us, but this year I'm on my own.
While I think the overall results are great, I'm wondering if anybody else does pork & sauerkraut for New Year's, and what your recipe might be....