Pork shoulder sitting in a Traeger smoker over a foil pan seasoned with a traditional Puerto Rican marinade waiting to be cooked.

Pork shoulder sitting in a Traeger smoker over a foil pan seasoned with a traditional Puerto Rican marinade after about sixteen hours of cooking.

First cook of the year actually started last year and is approaching 17 hours under smoke! This is a big cook because my Puerto Rican wife finally agreed to let me, her American husband, make a traditional pernil! #happynewyear #pernil #puertorico #boricua #cocinacriollo