A favorite meal is put the whole front shoulder in a large roaster (you can buy them tin ones at the store or I have a NESCO cooker).. add some water, sprinkle dry Lipton's Onion soup mix on the top of it, salt and pepper, and roast that real slow in the oven. When it has been cooking for a while then add onions (whole and peeled), potatoes (whole and peeled) and some carrots to that thing and let if finish cooking until the vegetables are done and the meat has an internal temperature of at least 140 if you like it rare, 150 for me. Then thicken the onion soup juice, and you can have roasted vegetables, and that meat on the shoulder blades is so tender you can peel it off with a fork. That is some really good eating.

Another way is to put that shoulder in the brinkman smoker and put the onion soup mix on it. Make sure there is a good water pan in the smoker and hit it hard with maple or hickory smoke for a while as it cooks. Again, real tender and excellent.