Instant Pot Jerk Pork 2 ways

Doesn’t time fly - we have been in Canada almost 18 years now and we just celebrated our 21 st wedding anniversary. It was lovely to dig out our wedding photos. We had a small wedding ceremony and a large fancy dress party at night where Carl dressed as Henry the 8th and I went as Catherine Parr (the last of King Henry’s wives - I didn’t want to be one of the beheaded wives)

We saved most of our wedding budget for our honeymoon in the Caribbean. It was an all inclusive holiday so all you can eat and drink - soo much that I can’t remember what we ate but we drank lots of cocktails.

I wanted to make a Caribbean inspired meal to celebrate - I have no idea where the inspiration came from to call it “ Drunken Jerk” maybe I have said those words before lol.

I made a drunken jerk pulled pork using the instant pot with one of our Boston butts and used the juices for a jerk bbq sauce and the rendered pork fat to roast the potatoes. Omg it was sooo good!

We enjoyed it so much I made it again using one of our boneless pork legs. This time I used homemade pork stock because I didn’t have any beer.

Both were a big hit with plenty of leftovers.

The pork shoulder leftovers I made pizza using the bbq sauce (instead of a tomato base) I topped it with pulled pork, cheese, onions and tomatoes.

The leftovers from boneless leg were enough to give us plenty of Sandwiches and a huge pot of jambalaya.

I used the Instant pot but you can make it in a slow cooker or in the oven too.

Tip - Cook potatoes in the jerk stock before roasting them - they are so good and why waist all that delicious flavour.

I also froze the left over jerk stock just for cooking potatoes in.

I also did a small 90 second video on Instagram with some of our wedding pics and memories. (You don’t need to be on Instagram to watch it) It should work if you click the link is below.

If you watch until the end - that is what we feel like now lol.

This is us 21 years ago