"Accidental" tomato braised pork brisket

I'll be honest, before this week end, I didn't even know that there was such a thing as pork brisket!

However since I was about to make a big batch of tomato sauce, I was looking for some ham bones to marinate in the tomato sauce while it cooked, but couldn't find any. What I found instead were some incredibly inexpensive "pork brisket bones", which looked real meaty.

Took the bones home, roasted them in the oven, placed them in the tomato sauce on the stove top that I let barely simmer for 2 hours.

Once that was over, I was about to throw away the "bones" and mix the sauce. However, seeing all that meat on the bones, it just didn't feel right to throw it away. So I placed them in a pan with some of the tomato sauce so they wouldn't dry out. That night I reheated that pan and ate the meat off the bones: EXCELLENT!

So what is a pork brisket bone? Why do I usually never see those? Why have I never ever heard of a pork brisket? 

This thing was gooooooood and I still have a few bones in my fridge.. hmmm... later tonight maybe? /img/vbsmilies/smilies/smile.gif

 

Great, thanks so much for the link BDL. Teamfat, it did remind me of the taste of "fall of the bones" pork ribs, but it wasn't EXACTLY the same - I'm talking taste, texture, shape of meat and shape of bones, etc... so I thought it might be something else. Not that far though!!! /img/vbsmilies/smilies/smile.gif

Thanks to both of you.

 

Really good stuff. I think I'll buy those again. It's incredibly cheap (paid $1.99/lbs in an expensive supermarket) and really meaty, and really good.

Maybe next time I'll braise them and make pulled pork with it.

Unfortunately I do not own a smoker, nor do I know how to smoke -  where I come from, barbecuing means simply grilling! Although I'm sure those would be great with indirect grilling, slow and long... hmmmm...