Published on September 30, 2009
in low carb.
Take a pork loin on sale and cut it into nice thick 3/4inch slices
Season with salt and pepper and heat up a frying pan and add a touch of oil. Put chops in and let brown, don’t move them until they have formed a nice crust and then brown the other side just like this
They don’t have to be cooked all the way through, in fact with these great big chops it’s not possible. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and put your browned chops on a baking sheet and roast in the oven for about 8 minutes or until they feel like medium rare. You want them just slightly pink in the centre. Back to your frying pan thrown in 150 grams of goat cheese, about 1/2 cup of pesto and 1 cup of cream and let simmer.
Serve your pork chop with steamed green beans and this goat cheese and pesto sauce. Call me when dinner is ready.
I love baking. I love the smell, the fact that I don’t have gallons of dishes to wash and that my creation often looks as good as it tastes. I made more buttercream icing and this batch should last me for at least another 3 or 4 cakes. Making black icing is just gross, you have to add so much colour paste but I’m freezing it in case I ever need it again. 
Notice all of those good healthy veggies I served too!
Here is 65 pound pig that we roasted in about 3 1/2 hours. We roasted it in a covered roaster that stayed very hot. It took about 100 pounds of charcoal. We started with 40 pounds and then added 20 pounds an hour. We served it with Hawaiian Baked beans (recipe below) and fresh corn. Many of the guests at the pig roast brought amazing appetizers and other salads. We had pasta salad, potato salad, rice salad, bean salad, tuna salad, herring…..Just lots of food.
After dinner our guests settled in to watch the band.
Hawaiian Baked Beans for 50
100 oz can of baked beans
1 pound of cooked bacon
2 large onions, finely diced
3 green peppers, diced
2 cans of crushed pineapple, drained
In a saute pan cook bacon until crisp. Remove bacon, chop and set aside. In the same saute pan fry the onion and green pepper until slightly softened. Stir bacon, onions, green peppers and pineapple into the baked beans. Stir to combine and heat in slow oven for one hour.