Meat fest - Made dinner for Ron Swanson last night

[DianaCox]

My daughter and I went on a cooking binge yesterday - had a lot of meat and veggies in the fridge that needed to be cooked, and facing a deadline of Wednesday when we leave for two weeks. 6 lbs of hamburger meat browned and frozen in 1.5 lb portions for sloppy joes, spaghetti sauce or quick skillet dishes; one lb each of spicy sausage for spaghetti and bacon sausage for quiche also cooked and frozen. All while preparing a Santa Maria tri tip and the fabulous bacon wrapped, pork tenderloin stuffed pineapple (swineapple or pork-u-pine) that was posted last week. And also cooking a BBQ sauce injected second pork tenderloin. I will be eating meat snacks and meals for the next four days, and don't have to cook!

Also cooked all the veggies on the grill with garlic olive oil and either Tajin or balsamic glaze.

 

[duh_Mom]

omg! looks delicious - where is that pork tenderloin recipe???

 

[DianaCox]

There wasn't a recipe posted with it when it was posted on FB - that was a problem. We made it up.

We put a seasoned salt on the pork before stuffing it into the pineapple, and then "wrapped" the bacon weave around it - we had to stick a mess of skewers in it to keep it together because the pineapple fell apart. We put the "pork-u-pine" on aluminum foil (because of the juices that would leak out) on a tray, and seared it and the tri tip at a high temp on the grill first, then turned it down to about 300 to slow roast (put the meat in the center of the grill, with the burners on under the sides). Cooked them over indirect heat (and put the nekkid pork tenderloin on the rack above the grill) until the internal temp was 160.

Actually, the pork-u-pine was not finishing fast enough - the other meats were done and the roast was still only at 145 and we wanted to cook the veggies so we moved it to the indoor oven at 350 for the last 30 minutes so we could get the veggies cooked on the grill (at full blast).

I hate following recipes - I like to make it up as I go. Most of the time, it works. But not always - I have had some major fails as well. But this was delicious (the pineapple enzymes tenderized what is already a tender cut of meat even more).

 

[newanatomy]

Looks yummy! You are going to have a good week!

 

[SJB41976]

YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!