Chicken got put on the back burner last night. I couldn’t find a good recipe for soup and I honestly didn’t feel like having chicken for a second night in a row if I didn’t have to. I didn’t have to. When I pulled the chicken out of the freezer I also took out a pork roast and so I decided we were going to have pork for dinner.
How many different ways can you cook a pork roast? We’ve probably had a pork roast once a week for the last couple of weeks. There were a few down in the freezer from sale days somewhere or another and I’ve been trying to get rid of them. I didn’t know if I could come up with another recipe that was so much different from what we had a week ago and a week before that.
I couldn’t. There are only so many ways to cook a pork roast and not being able to shop for extra ingredients definitely put a damper on my creativity. With no roast ideas I thought we would use the pork a different way. We’d make pork curry.
Chicken, beef or pork all make excellent curry dishes and it’s a meal we normally have with leftovers. Add rice as a side with potatoes in the curry and your meal is done. I called George to make sure that curry sounded good to him too. It did.
To make the curry I started with my pork roast. To be honest, I’ve never made the curry, George always does that. I can’t imagine it’s terribly hard but I’ve never been called upon for the recipe. I knew that my 3 lb. pork needed to be fully cooked and cooled before we made the curry so I preheated the oven to 450 degrees, stuck the roast in a glass pan (not even a roasting pan) and stuck it in the oven. I cooked it for ten minutes at 450 degrees and then lowered the temperature to 250 degrees because the recipe I found on how long to cook my roast told me to do that.
Don’t trust all the recipes you read.
Having never cooked a roast in the oven before (I’m new at this, what can I say) I wanted the roast to be juicy. The other ones I did recently in the crock pot turned out dry and I wasn’t having any of that. Needless to say I should have cooked it at a slightly higher temperature and it might have been done in time to cool. As it was it remained in the oven for about four hours until it temped properly. Too late to make curry but just in time to eat the pork roast. I had not put any seasonings on the pork because I expected to make it into curry, but it was delicious.
A side of potatoes from the box finished the meal. While I like having instant potatoes on hand, I enjoy home-made potatoes much more. But it was nice to be able to get rid of a box.
I was sad that pork curry was taken off the table, but I was very excited the roast turned out as well as it did. I think pork curry is on the menu for later tonight anyway so it’s a win-win situation.
Do you have any recipes you go to immediately when you have leftovers? I’d love to get some new recipes.
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