First smoke of the year, Cuban style pork

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Apr 13, 2014
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Well time for my first smoke of the year I am doing a pork shoulder (I believe it's a shoulder I forgot now). As you can see from the photos this is probably the last run for my smoker, last year it literally did hundreds of pounds of pork & chicken for our dealership feeding a bunch of hungry employees/customers. I have not decided on its replacement yet! For the shoulder I marinated it for a couple days in Mojo marinade with fresh oregano, lime juice, lemon juice, chopped onion and choped garlic. It should be a tasty dinner! :grilling_smilie:





 
This reminds me of Puerco Pilbil. I have done that before and it was pretty awesome. Hard to find banana leaves where I live now so I don't know when I will do that again. 
 
So far so good! I was thinking of doing this for my next shoulder. What wood are you using for smoke?
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So far so good! I was thinking of doing this for my next shoulder. What wood are you using for smoke?

I am using what's called Southern Blend it's sold by a local company, it's on the sweeter side of the spectrum it should compliment the citrus well.

For charcoal I am using good ole Royal Oak. The mop sauce I'm using is what I always see the old Cubans use which is just beer!
 
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Almost as important as the meat itself is the cigar, drink and music selection!

For the cigars I'm starting with the Ashton, then the Liga No. 9 for the back half and the LFD for the after dinner smoke to compliment the spice:

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For my drink it will be my go too G&T made with Hendricks gin:

http://s121.photobucket.com/user/ra...838F961F-E586-48B7-945D-B77ACBAE5E53.jpg.html

The station for music:

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