allow dinners to pick and pull at it with their fingers,
offering a few sauces to work with on the side. Try sweet-
and-spicy nuoc cham, Chinese-style char siu, Cuban mojo,
or a bright Argentinian chimichurri. Or, better yet, since this
is a pork party, throw out a whole selection. Also see the
suggestions in the note here.
Shredded roasted pork shoulder is excellent on its own,
even better in sandwiches with a bit of coleslaw, and it
makes an excellent addition to soups, stews, taco fillings,
Cuban sandwiches, empanada fillings, arepa stuffings, hash,
omelets, etc.
It’s nearly as difficult to mess up slow-cooked pork
shoulder as it is to bring the sucker to the table without
eating half the skin yourself before it arrives.
Slow-roasting followed by a blast at high heat creates skin
that blisters and bubbles, adding surface area for extra
crunch.