Last night's dinner: Honey-Cumin Pork Roast. Pork roasts are a good weeknight dinner because they don't take much time in the oven and are a snap to prepare. I put the pork in a pan, and followed the directions, cutting a diamond pattern in the top of the roast. I mixed the ingredients for the glaze as directed, using honey, cumin, lemon juice and red pepper. I cut onion wedges and dredged them in the glaze, then put the entire pan in the oven with a thermometer probe so that I would know when it reached 155 degrees. I then got preoccupied with making dinner for my three year old, folding laundry and generally doing house stuff. Brian finished what he was doing at the computer, realized that I was busy and put the potatoes on to fry on the stovetop. The pork finished cooking just as the potatoes went on....so we wrapped it in foil.
After eating, Brian said that the recipe wasn't great because all it tasted like was pork with a little honey and cumin. I agreed, it was a tad disappointing, given how delicious it had smelled while cooking. As I was putting the cookbook away, I had the famous CLUEPHONE moment.....there were instructions after the roasting for adding chicken broth to the pan drippings and onions to make a sauce. Gah!! So now we know why it was a culinary disappointment...and to read the recipe through. Makes for a good case of no multitasking, just cook!!! That's a hard habit to break, though.
1 comment:
lol.... i have done pretty much that same kind of thing, and yes, what a let down to have the food not taste as good as it smelled when cooking! oh and totally agree with the pork thing- so good and so QUICK! love it!
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