honey pork

Meal: Honey Glazed Pork Tenderloin, wild rice
Cooking time: about 1.25 hours, mostly hands off
Cost per person: about $2.50
Local ingredients: pork, honey
Leftovers: a lunch sized portion of rice and pork

Last night was new recipe night. We did Honey Glazed Pork Tenderloin, and it was really good. I cut the sauce in half because we had half the meat (half of a 1.5 pound roast; the other half is in the freezer for another week), but we could have used twice the sauce, it was that good. Jeff also loves sauces in general, so. I followed the recipe exactly, which is pretty unusual for me. It was accompanied by wild rice (twice as much water as rice, bring to a boil, reduce the heat, let simmer 40 to 45 minutes.) The only thing I would do differently when making this again is, as I said, make more sauce, and start earlier (we didn’t eat until almost quarter of nine, because of my bad timing.) This was an easy recipe, if a little fiddly, since you’re having to pop into the kitchen every 15 minutes, but it made for a good time to catch up on blog posts. :) The sweetness of the sauce perfectly fit the pork, and it came out tender but not falling apart. We’ll make this again.

I’d also like to note that I’m fighting off a powerful craving for cold Chinese barbequed pork now.