pork roast

Although I love cooking and love experimenting with many international recipes, I'd never actually done a pork roast. Probably due to the fact that it's a large chunk of meat and untill recently, we were only 2 people to eat it. Now with Kevin starting to eat meat on a regular basis, we at least have 2.5 people eating meat. Maybe also because it seems a little old-fashioned. It's the type of thing my grandmother used to make, not quite the modern thai and sushi dishes that are so popular now.

My husband forced my hand today when he brought home a huge slab of pork from the grocery store. As a typical digital woman, I went straight to www.epicurious.com to find some recipes and was not dissapointed.

I tried the Tuscan-style pork roast. It's super simple. All that's required are garlic, rosemary, salt & pepper, the pork and patience (~ 3 hours).... but the results were stunning. After about 1 hour, the house started to smell heavenly (at least if you like the scent of garlic & rosemary cooking), and when we sat down to table, the roast was succulent, full of flavor and aromatic.

I'll have to try more of the old staples.