On Friday night we had a mission to deliver dinner to 3 boats full of weary sailers who had been battling against the wind all day. Nearly everyone one of them had been sea sick at some point during this oddesey, and no one felt like preparing dinner. We got the call early enough to be able to cook a pork roast long and slow, so that it was falling apart in the way that only pork butt roast can. we were delivering this dinner to Gibsons Landing Marina about an hours drive away at the southern tip of the Sunshine Coast.
When we arrived it was calm, hot and hard to believe the stories that we heard of the rolling seas, high winds and all the throwing up over the side. Any way who are we to judge, and we did feel like we were on a mission of mercy.
I made a rub to rub all over the pork roast as follows.
1 tablespoon of ground coriander
1 tablespoon of ground cumin
1 teaspoon of smoked paprika
1 teaspoon of sweet paprika
1 tablespoon of chili powder
1 tablespoon of salt.
I rubbed this all over the pork butt roast, then wrapped it in foil and placed on a barbecue with the lid down for about 3 hours. I turned the heat down to low on one side and placed the roast on the other. The barbecue was at about 300. Obviously you could do this in an oven as well, but it was very hot and the oven was playing up.
After 3 hours I unwrapped the pork and cooked it for a further 1/2 hour uncovered at about 400.
The pork was getting crusty on the outside and meltingly soft and falling apart in the centre. Just before we left to drive down to Gibsons, I wrapped the pork in foil and then in a large beach towel to keep warm.
