Roast Pork for Sunday Dinner

Sunday Dinner

Roast Pork

Spinach Souffle

Homemade Applesauce

Mashed Potatoes

Gravy

Spinach Souffle-a very easy recipe

Ingredients:

1 10z pkg. of spinach, thawed
½ cup of parmesan cheese
1 egg
2 tbl. of melted butter
2 oz. of heavy cream

Prepare that old Corningware French 2 quart casserole by rubbing with butter and dusting with Italian flavored breadcrumbs.  Preheat oven to 350F.  This recipe will be a success as long as you do not open the oven door during cooking or slam the oven door shut.

Mix all ingredients and fold into the casserole dish.  Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.

Homemade Applesauce

 
2 apples, one sweet and one tart
2 tbl. of sugar
½ tsp. of cinnamon
½ tsp. of nutmeg
1 tbl. of butter

Peal and cut apples.  Put in a microwave container with remaining ingredients.  Nuke for 4 minutes.  Mash with fork.  Allow to cool to room temp. and refrigerate until serving time.

Roast Pork 

Marinade:  1 cup of buttermilk seasoned with garlic powder, salt and pepper.  Allow pork to marinate for several hours (unless it is the tenderloin which, in that case, only needs to marinate 30 minutes). 

Preheat oven to 350F.  Prepare roasting pan by rubbing with butter and extra virgin olive oil.  Sprinkle roast with poultry seasoning.  Roast until the internal temperature of the meat is 140F.

Allow roast to rest 15 minutes before serving so internal temperature rises to acceptable temperature for cooked pork.  Trichinosis is killed at 130F.

Gravy
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
Pan drippings when you remove the roast and put it on a platter
Heavy cream

When the roast is done, remove from the roasting pan and add a little water to the drippings, scraping everything from the bottom of the roasting pan.  Pour the whole thing into a saucepan and add the soup and heavy cream to thicken.  Salt and pepper to taste.