I live in the South… we love our BBQ. I in particular LOVE BBQ! We go out a couple times a month for barbeque, but I never know just how many points to count since I can’t tell always just how lean the meat is, what is in the sauce, etc. And when we go out… we tend to get hushpuppies, sweet tea, sweet potato fries, etc. Yikes! (but delicious!) So I came up with what has turned out to be “the best” BBQ I’ve ever eaten… and my husband agrees! We live in North Carolina, so the sauce tastes like good ol’ NC BBQ sauce — vinegar-based, sweet and spicy. Yum! But you could always make this and add on a thicker, ketchup-based sauce if that’s what you like after it’s done when you serve it up. I’ve made this twice now, and the recipe is “ad lib” since it’s our family’s BBQ sauce that we’ve never written down…. until now I guess It’s also for Crock Pot which I think is fabulous since you can put it together in 5 minutes and have dinner ready when you get home from work. I totally recommend trying this ASAP! It’s so good and can usually be made from what you have on hand. We eat it with or without a bun with some baked sweet potato fries and something green. Yum-O!

BBQ Pork Tenderloin:

Place defrosted, lean pork tenderloin, devoid of any fat or shiny skin, into a Crock Pot. I typically cook 1-2 pound tenderloins at a time.

Sauce (may double, triple, etc. based on how much meat you have… I usually double it and have leftover):
3/4 c apple cider vinegar
4-5 Tbsp white sugar
4-5 generous Tbsp ketchup
2 squirts yellow mustard
2 shakes worcestershire sauce
Fresh ground black pepper to taste

* Wisk ingredients together in a bowl.
* Pour on top of pork.
* Cook on low for 8 hours or high for 6 hours. (Really, you can cook it as long as you want… I’ve cooked mine as long as 12 hours on low when I had a long day at work, and it still tasted great!)
* When done, use two forks to pull apart meat to have shredded BBQ… it falls apart! Serve with or without buns.

This is just so good! Try it and let me know what you think! I usually count points for this just for the meat + 1 point for the sauce (given the sugar, ketchup), but since the sauce is vinegar based and is so thin, it’s really not too many points at all! The pork tenderloin is 1 pt per 1 oz…. that’s awesome!

I’m having a great day today… for one, it’s sunny and warm when it was supposed to be cloudy and cold! And for another… I am DONE with my rotation in Family Medicine which means I am DONE with driving 1.5 hrs to work and 1.5 hrs home from work every day!!! Yes! On the down side, we had PF Chang’s for lunch, and while I didn’t get “much,” what I ate had WAY too many points! Yikes! Oh well… I hope to get in a walk tonight before Bible Study to counter some of it!

*** I’m about to post a recipe for BBQ so look out for it!!! ***

Food:
B: Oatmeal To Go Square, 4
B: Starbucks FF, SF Vanilla Latte, 2
Water x4
L: PF Chang’s Spring Roll, 3
L: 1/2 c brown rice, 2
L: Chicken and Beef, 8
L: I’m ashamed to admit…. brownie :(, 7
L: Stawberries and blackberries, 0

RUNNING TOTAL: 26 (and I’m STUFFED and feel icky)