Beans and Toast

I went to a Croatian-style pig roast this past summer and it was real good. Now that the cold weather’s here – I wanted that taste again…real bad. How could I achieve this without a pig? I pondered and pondered until I saw a real cheap cut of meat at the grocery store and thus came up with a solution: Pig Roast Style Roasted Loin of Pork served with mashed taters and Red Cale with apples and walnuts…..yum.

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I’ve been watching a lot of Mad Men lately and really had a hankering for some of Betty Draper’s pork roast. I’ve been using this technique for roasts lately. Gets them all crusty and well seasoned without burning the herbs or garlic. Every time someone burns garlic on a pork roast a pig angel loses it’s wings. Then the human angels get bacon, which they like, but it’s no good for you and your family.

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I was hungover and hungry. I wanted eggs but I didn’t have no bread to put it on. But I did have….POTATOES!!! Eggs? Potatoes? Same pan? Yes. Yes I did.

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