A few weeks ago, back in September, our local Shaw's ran a great special.  Buy one carton of ice cream, get One Free.  Now, this is a typical special but what made this one great was that if you bought two cartons, you also got two free A&W sodas.  I am always up for a good deal (as you know).  Unfortunately, in our new location, the supermarket is just not that easy to get to.  We had always planned on using John's car to go grocery shopping but now that John is out of commission, it involves a train and a half mile walk to the supermarket.  It's not bad, it's just difficult to carry all the groceries by myself.

But for free ice cream and free soda I would make an exception!  I thought it was a cute idea for root beer floats and to be sure, we had lots of them.  In fact, we finished the diet root beer and one carton of vanilla ice cream (over a few weeks naturally) doing just that.  But then there was another two liter bottle of root beer.  What to do with it?  Well luckily for me,  Just Jenn is a huge fan and has tons of recipes involving root beer!  The one that stuck out to me was (duh) root beer pulled pork.

I had another great pulled pork idea in mind but put it aside to make this; and I was so glad I did!  I loved the sweetness of the root beer with the spices we slathered on the pork butt (whenever I say pork butt John giggles and repeats it: "pork butt"--is every man 5 years old?!  Just wondering out loud over here).  The pulled pork is tender and delicious and completely a keeper!  If you want to know what we did with the rest of the root beer stay tuned because it is featured in a heavenly (really heavenly) dessert perfect on Halloween!
Until the next time my oven is on...