4th of July Pork Butt

Jake and Taylor surprised me and drove up from Conway for the weekend.  The weather was great and so we decided to smoke a pork butt for the 4th of July.

My Weber smoker is not ideal.  It is really hard to keep the temp up.  We smoked it for about 7 hours.  Meanwhile, Shawn made some tasty sparkling wine/blueberry frozen treats which we enjoyed by the pool.  At the tenderization stage, I gave up on the smoker which was stuck at 190F.  I wrapped it in foil and finished it in the oven at 250F.

It came out great.  We had apple-raisin baked beans, marinated fresh vegetables, marjoram-lime grilled corn on the cob, and the pork.  For desert, Suzanne made an angelfood fruit layer cake.