
It's easy to make, but it does have to marinate for about an hour before roasting. We were busy working on the wedding programs and doing 6-7 loads of laundry so we almost forgot about dinner prep. Fortunately, we remembered around 4:15 pm, checked the recipe, and were relived that it calls for just an hour of marinating.
SP got the 4 lb pork roast settled into a glass dish and rubbed it with salt and pepper while mom read the recipe to me and I made the marinade. Unfortunately, mom made a wee mistake which resulted in the marinade having 3 more tablespoons of olive oil than called for. The ingredients list says 7 tbsp olive oil but only 4 tbsp are supposed to go in the marinade, the other 3 tbsp are supposed to be for sauteing the greens. She was reading from the ingredients list, not the preparation instructions, and realized too late that we added too much olive oil to the honey.
Oh well. Since the olive oil was already mixed with the honey, we decided it'd be OK. Maybe we shouldn't sip wine before reading recipes/measuring ingredients?!

Anyway, the pork marinated for an hour and then roasted for about 70 minutes at 375 degrees (until our thermometer beeped 150 degrees). We basted it with glaze every 10 minutes or so for the first half hour and we used water instead of chicken broth because we were too lazy to go pull the new chicken broth out of the basement storage area. Here's the pork just out of the oven:



Our starch was dinner rolls. SP got 'seedy rolls,' as I call them. I am not a fan of seedy rolls - I like plain rolls, which he didn't know. I teased him that we are about to be married and he doesn't know what kind of roll I like!!! To be fair, we almost never actually buy dinner rolls, but this week we are being a bit lazy due to all the wedding stuff going on!
He also bought pumpernickel rolls. Yum! I love pumpernickel! I was so excited, saying I'd eat the pumpernickel instead of the seedy rolls but then he said that he bought the pumpernickel for himself because it's a brown roll and therefore better/healthier than a white roll. But mom likes pumpernickel a lot, too.


No special dessert for this week. We didn't have time to bake last weekend and this coming weekend there will be rehearsal dinner desserts and then wedding cake and cookies so we thought we'd try to not have dessert during the week. Plus my dad arrives Wednesday night and he loves Rita's, so there might be a trip to Rita's in the near future! And I still have some cappuccino meltaway egg left from Easter. Oh - and we bought a huge bag of M&M's at Costco. They are supposed to be for our honeymoon trip, but I put some out in grandma's candy dish, so of course every time we pass by the end table in the living room we swipe a few.
Last week we had a 'special' dessert, special as in something new and rare for us for dessert at home: mini donuts for a dessert.



Whoa... Donut controversy! I missed that one somehow.
ReplyDeleteI love cream cheese and saltines. It's a great combo. Hmmm... cream cheese...
Yeah, it's a tough call - support the local small business, or avoid giving money to the person who spews hatred towards some of my best friends. The hard part is where do you draw the line. In this case I got a few inexpensive snacks, but I'm not sure I'd go back...
ReplyDeleteSo the donuts were just okay? I still like (love? hate? love/hate?) Oram's donuts in Crafton. I think because it seems to be the last little neighborhood donut shop that I know of...
ReplyDeleteI also knew nothing of this controversy... Bizzare!
I drive by that place every day -- now I know I'll have to stop in!
ReplyDeleteGreg-- Congrats on the wedding and I think you will enjoy Oram's!
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