Pork Roast Recipe, as promised!
As I mentioned in mt last post I made a to-die-for pork roast last week. Scott picked up the roast but left it up to me to decide what to do with it. Having never prepared this cut of meat before I scoured my cookbooks, looking for a recipe that I had all of the ingredients for in the pantry. What I landed on was the recipe for "Father Tim's Mother's Pork Roast" from Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook. One thing I didn't have at home was bourbon but I was able to find a half full bottle of brandy hiding in the liquor cabinet. The original recipe also called for a boneless Boston butt pork roast, but I much prefer cooking meat yet remaining on the bone (much richer flavors result from meat cooked on the bone) and I didn't have a boneless but roast at home! The roast was a cinch to prepare, took hardly any effort at all, and literally fell off the bone when we attempted to slice it. We each enjoyed a serving of pork with baked potatoes, all smothered in the hea