Blackberry and Gorgonzola Salad

Perfect salad if you don't have much time or functioning knives. Cut a head of lettuce into quarters and add blackberries, cherry tomatoes, and Gorgonzola. The nice thing about using a quarter-head of lettuce is the salad dresses itself. I used raspberry vinaigrette dressing.

North Carolina Pulled Pork and Corn Nuggets/Fritters

This is a couple weeks in the past, but my fingers are just beginning to heal enough to be able to type after sustaining burns while pulling pork hot out of the oven - not to mention any burns suffered during the corn nugget frying process. All in all though, pulled pork and corn nuggets complement each other well and make for a nice indoor, cold weather BBQ. Brought home a nice 7 lb. happy pig boston butt and rubbed it generously the night before roasting.

Can you see it smiling?

Then I put it in the oven for 6 or so hours and...

Still Happy Pork!

I premade the corn nugget/fritter batter earlier, and let the fry god take care of the rest:

Recipes from: Food Network and Food Network