{"id":33959,"date":"2026-04-10T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33959"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:36:57","slug":"finally-a-great-pork-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33959","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a great pork shoulder&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;today was pork shoulder day in the instant pot and finally, it turned out great&#8230;tender and falling apart&#8230;so I guess I hit the amount of cook time at an hour and a half that I was always under before&#8230;and I just winged it on a rub with garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, chili powder, and cayenne pepper with salt and pepper&#8230;I cooked with chicken broth as the cooking liquid and threw some bay leaves and garlic cloves in&#8230;to flavor the gravy, I put onions, celery, and carrots in the instant pot as it cooked&#8230;by far the best one I&#8217;ve ever cooked and now I&#8217;ve got it down so I can repeat it&#8230;the smoked paprika made the gravy come out with an orange tint that was a little strange but it tasted good&#8230;so, I&#8217;m going to have a third meal today with a pulled pork sandwich with barbecue sauce and dill pickles&#8230;yummy&#8230;I did hit the library today and just wandered a bit there to look for more authors and ran across the guy who does the &#8220;Reacher&#8221; series named Lee Child and I like the Reacher tv shows and like the first book I&#8217;ve started&#8230;so that gives me another dozen books to read&#8230;Yay! Okay, back to reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;today was pork shoulder day in the instant pot and finally, it turned out great&#8230;tender and falling apart&#8230;so I guess I hit the amount of cook time at an hour and a half that I was always under before&#8230;and I just winged it on a rub with garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, chili powder, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally, a great pork shoulder&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-33959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33960,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33959\/revisions\/33960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}