My friend John and his wife Lisa have just recently welcomed little Ellie Nozomi "Hope" Suzuki into the world. Healthy and happy, she is already home and making friends with her big brother Baxter. I can only hope that we have a similarly easy transition with our two babies.
On the topic of things that pair together well, I have a very easy - embarrassingly easy, actually - recipe that pairs pork loin with cranberries, a match made in heaven.
Ingredients
1-3 lb. boneless rolled pork loin roast
salt & pepper
1-2 TB olive oil
16 oz. can whole-berry cranberry sauce
1/4 cup honey
1 TB orange peel
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
Preheat oven to 375o and position rack in the center of the oven. Heat olive oil in roasting pan over med. high burner. Rinse and dry pork loin; coat with salt and pepper. Brown pork loin in roasting pan evenly, about 3 mins. per side. Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients; stir together. Put lid or foil over roasting pan and cook in oven until meat thermometer reads 160o, about 30 - 40 mins. depending on the size of pork loin. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing. Makes very good left-overs for sandwiches.
Jayce and Cosette, at the only point in time where they were the same size. It lasted for about one hour, then J hit another growth spurt.
