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Is this place getting bitchier or is it just me?

ctenidae

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Small pork loins (ends, I guess) I'll brine in salt, dry mustard, garlic, pepper, adn apple cider vinegar for an hour, a couple hours, or overnight, depending on what's going on. Then throw the whole thing on the grill, slice, adnd eat. Tasty.

Did a shoulder last week that I rubbed down with salt, pepper, brown sugar, chili powder and cayanne and left in the fridge for a week. Cooked it in a clay pot at 250 for about 10 hours. Didn't even need a fork to pull it apart. Mixed up a little Carolina BBQ sauce, and had some slap-your-mama-good pork.

Tonight is pork roast, Polish style- salt and pepper, completely buried in onions, and into the oven, fat side up, for about an hour. Then finished under the broiler to brown up the fat layer, sliced, and served with the onions. Tasty. Too bad US megamarket pork is so lean, you don't get enough fat out to make Smalec, oneof my favorite spreads for bread.

And snoseek, it's just you that's getting bitchier.
 

wa-loaf

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Where's Root? This thread is begging for some smoked pork pics.
 

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Spouse did a pork loin with some tomatoes and beans in out Dutch Oven...not as fancy as what others have done but it still came out real nice.

Actually, it's been our experience that just about anything we do in the Dutch Oven comes out great.
 

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Sometimes I just eat pork for dinner, like a couple chops, with nothing else. I really have been digging the loin because it's just plain cheap, lean (healthy), and is great cooked medium with a proper rest. It's not my favorite cut but easily most used because it's so quick and cheap. Spend all day cooking for people and that leaves very little time or motivation for in-depth meals, working restaurants was even worse eating cherrios hammered at 2 am every night-not healthy at all.
 

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Spouse did a pork loin with some tomatoes and beans in out Dutch Oven...not as fancy as what others have done but it still came out real nice.

Actually, it's been our experience that just about anything we do in the Dutch Oven comes out great.

This actually sounds like the kind of gruel I like.

Yes dutch ovens/clay pots, ect are great for slow cooking. Set it and forget it!!!
 

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Ask and ye shall receive...

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I need pork help. I need cooking help in general. Don't eat a lot of meat not because I don't like it, but because I am just not creative enough to figure out what to do with it that's quick and easy. I don't like having to fuss much.

I don't think we've had "pork" since summer ... which is the usual boneless pork chops (we don't like the boned kind) on the grill with barbecue sauce.

Though bacon... that's on the menu more regularly than it used to be.
 

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Spouse did a pork loin with some tomatoes and beans in out Dutch Oven...not as fancy as what others have done but it still came out real nice.

Actually, it's been our experience that just about anything we do in the Dutch Oven comes out great.

This actually sounds like the kind of gruel I like.

Yes dutch ovens/clay pots, ect are great for slow cooking. Set it and forget it!!!
I especially like Dutch Oven cooking after a trip to Taco Bell. Mix in some beer and pizza, delicious!
 

snoseek

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I need pork help. I need cooking help in general. Don't eat a lot of meat not because I don't like it, but because I am just not creative enough to figure out what to do with it that's quick and easy. I don't like having to fuss much.

I don't think we've had "pork" since summer ... which is the usual boneless pork chops (we don't like the boned kind) on the grill with barbecue sauce.

Though bacon... that's on the menu more regularly than it used to be.

Buy some chops, thin coat of good mustard, press in cracked pepper, sear in cast iron skillet, finish in the oven (do not overcook!). After cooked remove pork from said skillet, sweat a clove or two of garlic, deglaze with wine and or chicken stock(maybe 1/4 cup), add fresh chopped herbs (thyme and rosemary work well), reduce and wisk in a little cold butter. 15 minutes tops
 

snoseek

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I especially like Dutch Oven cooking after a trip to Taco Bell. Mix in some beer and pizza, delicious!

So you like the smell of your own farts? At least you're honest:beer:
 
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