Okra Creole ... Because I'm Hanging On To Summer!

Am I the solely ane non yet ready to succumb to fall?  I'm seeing a inundation of apple tree in addition to pumpkin 'fall-ish' recipes approximately the blogosphere, but I'm simply non ready to become at that spot yet!  Don't larn me wrong, I absolutely dearest the autumn flavors of juicy apples, rich pumpkin, cinnamon, gingerbread ... in addition to all those other 'warm' tastes nosotros associate amongst fabulous fall.  But I'm simply non ready for them.

I'm yet hanging on to cooking amongst the hit of belatedly summer.  The in conclusion few tomatoes.  Not-quite-gone-by blueberries.  Yummy fresh figs.  And straggler okra. 

I'm told that the okra plants volition run along to hit until the showtime frost.  I stimulate got no stance whether or non this is true, since I've never attempted to grow okra myself.  But since bags of this wonderful materials run along to look on my desk at schoolhouse from our really generous custodian Clayvon (a.k.a. Mr. Clay), I'm going to stimulate got people's give-and-take for it!

Keep it comin' Mr. Clay, in addition to I'll hold on a-cookin' it up.  Maybe when the okra's done, I'll finally hold out ready for fall.


Okra Creole
Source:  Adapted from Cooking Light magazine
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
iii slices bacon or turkey bacon
1 (16 oz.) packet frozen okra or well-nigh 1 lb. fresh okra, sliced
1 c. chopped onion
1 (14.5 oz.) tin diced tomatoes
1 c. frozen corn kernels
1/2 c. water
two tsp. Old Bay seasoning
1/2 tsp. dark pepper


Directions
1.  Cook bacon inwards a Dutch oven until crisp; take away from pan in addition to drain on newspaper towels.  Crumble bacon in addition to laid aside.  (Note:  If you lot role turkey bacon, I recommend putting a small-scale dab of olive crude inwards the pan.)

2.  Add remaining ingredients to bacon drippings inwards the pan.  Cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, for v minutes.

3.  Reduce oestrus to low, cover, in addition to simmer well-nigh fifteen minutes or until vegetables are tender.  Top amongst crumbled bacon.

4.  Serve over hot cooked rice or cous-cous.

Enjoy!

Easy Mediterranean Chicken Amongst Cous-Cous

This is 1 of those creations born out of necessity.  The necessity to brand something to swallow ... amongst merely what you lot cause got to a greater extent than or less the kitchen.  You know those days.  You idea you lot had something figured out to brand for dinner, together with and therefore detect you're missing a telephone substitution ingredient.  I swear at that spot must hold upward gremlins inward my pantry.  Pesky petty gremlins who accept ingredients when I'm non looking.  Sneaky petty devils.

And therefore this slow Mediterranean Chicken amongst Cous-Cous came to be.  I had thawed out chicken from the freezer, therefore had to purpose it up.  I looked to a greater extent than or less my kitchen to run across what I had, together with went to operate assembling.  Chicken ... onions ... garlic ... olives ... capers ...

canned tomatoes ... fresh basil ...

 

And, WOW, did this e'er plough out delicious! I knew it would hold upward edible ... I mean, you lot can't larn besides incorrect amongst the ingredients I works life laying around. But I didn't know it would plough out as tasty equally it did! Easy together with quick too.  As nosotros country at our house, it's a keeper!

Easy Mediterranean Chicken amongst Cous-Cous

Source:  H5N1 Tracey creation

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

Olive oil

iv boneless & skinless chicken pectus halves (whole or cutting into bite-sized chunks)

1 onion, sliced inward circular slices

1 clove garlic, minced

Salt & dark pepper, to taste

H5N1 milk shiver of crushed carmine pepper, to taste

iv T. capers

1 c. olives (a mix of kalamata together with dark-green olives)

1 (15 oz.) tin whole tomatoes

Fresh basil

Prepared cous-cous

Directions

1.  Season chicken pectus halves amongst tabular array salt together with dark pepper.  Heat a pocket-size sum of olive stone oil inward a skillet; brownish chicken in heated oil and together with therefore take chicken from pan.

2.  Heat another pocket-size sum of olive stone oil inward the same skillet.  Add onion slices together with garlic; saute until onions soften a bit, nearly 2-3 minutes.  Add dark pepper, crushed carmine pepper, capers, together with olives.  Break upward tomatoes amongst a fork (or your hands); add together tomatoes, amongst juice, to the pan.  Heat until simmering.

3.  Add browned chicken to the pan.  Simmer browned chicken inward the olive-tomato mixture until cooked through together with tender, nearly 15-20 minutes.

4.  Serve over prepared cous-cous together with travel past times amongst fresh basil.  

Enjoy!

Sweet-&-Spicy Pork Tenderloin Amongst Mango Salsa

For this month's Eating the Alphabet challenge (letters M, N, or O), I chose to portion amongst you lot i of our family's go-to recipes.  This Sweet-&-Spicy Pork Tenderloin amongst Mango Salsa is i of our absolute, absolute, absolute favorites.  Hmmmm ... nosotros similar it together with thus much, perchance it deserves almost 50 absolutes.  But I'll halt at three.  You larn the point.

I had been making the pork tenderloin role of this dish for years ... when my Mom came upward amongst the bright stance of pairing it amongst Mango Salsa.  Brilliant, I say.  Genius!  It's such a wonderful combination.

To larn the sweet-&-spicy flavour combination, the pork tenderloin is marinated inwards a mixture of chocolate-brown sugar, love apple tree paste, cumin, together with chili powder.  This forms a fabulously tasty crust on the pork i time it baked.  Just accept a hold back at that flavorful crust ...

When it comes out of the oven, permit it residue for 10 minutes (or a few more) earlier slicing to allow the juices to distribute throughout the meat (THIS IS IMPORTANT!).  This ensures moist morsels of meat, rather than the tenderloin juices only leaching out all over your cutting board when you lot while it.  You don't desire that.  You desire juicy tenderness.

Place the tenderloin slices on a platter together with spoon mango salsa on occur ... together with serve upward delicious melt-in-your oral fissure sweet-and-spicy goodness.  It's together with thus good, you lot powerfulness desire to brand a double batch!  I'm only sayin'.

Thanks, Mom, for taking a identify unit of measurement favorite together with making it fifty-fifty better!





Sweet-&-Spicy Pork Tenderloin amongst Mango Salsa
Source:  Adapted from Cooking Light magazine
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
Sweet-&-Spicy Pork Tenderloin:
1/4 c. packed chocolate-brown sugar
ii T. apple tree cider vinegar
1 T. love apple tree paste
1 tsp. soil cumin
1 1/2 tsp. chili powder
1/4 tsp. soil dark pepper
1 (1 lb.) pork tenderloin

Mango Salsa:
3 c. cubed peeled ripe mango (about 2-3 mangoes)
1 c. chopped greenish onions
1/2 c. chopped fresh cilantro
3 T. finely chopped seeded jalapeno
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 c. fresh lime juice

Directions
Prepare the Mango Salsa:
1.  Combine all mango salsa ingredients inwards a bowl together with toss well.  Cover together with chill for almost thirty minutes earlier serving.

Prepare the Pork Tenderloin:
2.  Combine chocolate-brown sugar, cider vinegar, love apple tree paste, cumin, chili powder, together with dark pepper inwards a shallow dish; mix well.  Add pork together with plow to coat all sides.  Cover together with marinate inwards the fridge for 1 hour.

3.  Line a broiler pan or baking canvass amongst aluminum foil together with spray amongst non-stick cooking spray.  Place pork on the prepared pan together with brush amongst some of the marinade left inwards the dish.  Bake at 450 degrees for 20-35 minutes until the meat registers 160 degrees on a meat thermometer.  (If you lot prefer your pork tenderloin slightly pink, bake until it registers 155 degrees.)

4.  Remove the pork tenderloin from the oven together with permit residue for 10 minutes earlier slicing.  Slice to the thickness of your liking, identify on a platter, together with spoon mango salsa on top.


Enjoy!

Sweet-&-Spicy Pork Tenderloin Amongst Mango Salsa

For this month's Eating the Alphabet challenge (letters M, N, or O), I chose to portion amongst you lot i of our family's go-to recipes.  This Sweet-&-Spicy Pork Tenderloin amongst Mango Salsa is i of our absolute, absolute, absolute favorites.  Hmmmm ... nosotros similar it together with thus much, perchance it deserves almost 50 absolutes.  But I'll halt at three.  You larn the point.

I had been making the pork tenderloin role of this dish for years ... when my Mom came upward amongst the bright stance of pairing it amongst Mango Salsa.  Brilliant, I say.  Genius!  It's such a wonderful combination.

To larn the sweet-&-spicy flavour combination, the pork tenderloin is marinated inwards a mixture of chocolate-brown sugar, love apple tree paste, cumin, together with chili powder.  This forms a fabulously tasty crust on the pork i time it baked.  Just accept a hold back at that flavorful crust ...

When it comes out of the oven, permit it residue for 10 minutes (or a few more) earlier slicing to allow the juices to distribute throughout the meat (THIS IS IMPORTANT!).  This ensures moist morsels of meat, rather than the tenderloin juices only leaching out all over your cutting board when you lot while it.  You don't desire that.  You desire juicy tenderness.

Place the tenderloin slices on a platter together with spoon mango salsa on occur ... together with serve upward delicious melt-in-your oral fissure sweet-and-spicy goodness.  It's together with thus good, you lot powerfulness desire to brand a double batch!  I'm only sayin'.

Thanks, Mom, for taking a identify unit of measurement favorite together with making it fifty-fifty better!





Sweet-&-Spicy Pork Tenderloin amongst Mango Salsa
Source:  Adapted from Cooking Light magazine
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
Sweet-&-Spicy Pork Tenderloin:
1/4 c. packed chocolate-brown sugar
ii T. apple tree cider vinegar
1 T. love apple tree paste
1 tsp. soil cumin
1 1/2 tsp. chili powder
1/4 tsp. soil dark pepper
1 (1 lb.) pork tenderloin

Mango Salsa:
3 c. cubed peeled ripe mango (about 2-3 mangoes)
1 c. chopped greenish onions
1/2 c. chopped fresh cilantro
3 T. finely chopped seeded jalapeno
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 c. fresh lime juice

Directions
Prepare the Mango Salsa:
1.  Combine all mango salsa ingredients inwards a bowl together with toss well.  Cover together with chill for almost thirty minutes earlier serving.

Prepare the Pork Tenderloin:
2.  Combine chocolate-brown sugar, cider vinegar, love apple tree paste, cumin, chili powder, together with dark pepper inwards a shallow dish; mix well.  Add pork together with plow to coat all sides.  Cover together with marinate inwards the fridge for 1 hour.

3.  Line a broiler pan or baking canvass amongst aluminum foil together with spray amongst non-stick cooking spray.  Place pork on the prepared pan together with brush amongst some of the marinade left inwards the dish.  Bake at 450 degrees for 20-35 minutes until the meat registers 160 degrees on a meat thermometer.  (If you lot prefer your pork tenderloin slightly pink, bake until it registers 155 degrees.)

4.  Remove the pork tenderloin from the oven together with permit residue for 10 minutes earlier slicing.  Slice to the thickness of your liking, identify on a platter, together with spoon mango salsa on top.


Enjoy!

Buttermilk Baked Chicken

Baked upward tender inwards a creamy buttermilk sauce, this Buttermilk Baked Chicken is i ugly dish, for sure.  But i time yous gustatory modality the flavor, I don't intend you'll mind!

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This is i of those dishes that exactly isn't pretty.

In fact, I'd tell this dish is downright ugly.  We all accept them ... ugly favorites that sure taste good.  Right?

Well, this is sure i of those ugly duckling dishes, for sure.  And our menage unit of measurement loves it.

Since this recipe has a pretty brusk listing of ingredients, makes occupation of convenience products, together with comes together inwards a unmarried baking pan, it's a real tardily repast to throw together on a weeknight. 

It's i of our comfort-food-go-to-recipes, together with it never disappoints.  Buttermilk makes the chicken super moist together with tender.  As most Southern cooks know, buttermilk pretty much ever makes things better!

Since this recipe has a pretty brusk listing of ingredients, makes occupation of convenience products, together with comes together inwards a unmarried baking pan, it's a real tardily repast to throw together on a weeknight.  

Bake upward the chicken for most 45 minutes, serve it over about rice or couscous, and you've got yourself one real tasty ugly-duckling dinner.

To larn this tardily Buttermilk Baked Chicken started, only dip boneless skinless chicken breasts inwards buttermilk.  Place them inwards a baking dish amongst about melted butter.

Bake the chicken for most xxx minutes to larn it exactly most cooked through.  Then pour a mixture of buttermilk together with cream of mushroom soup over the chicken, coating it completely.

It's i of our comfort-food-go-to-recipes, together with it never disappoints.

Continue to bake the chicken inwards the buttermilk sauce for most 10 minutes more.

The chicken bakes upward tender together with moist.  And the buttermilk sauce bakes into a flavorful, thick together with creamy gravy that's wonderful both amongst the chicken together with spooned over rice or cous cous.

It's non a pretty dish, for sure ... to a greater extent than similar an ugly duckling of the dinner world.  But it sure tastes good.

And piece this  ugly duckling won't grow upward to live a beautiful swan, i time yous gustatory modality the flavor, I don't intend you'll mind.

Thank yous for stopping past times .  We'd dearest to accept yous dorsum soon!

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Main Dishes

Yield: 4 servings

Author: Tracey |

Buttermilk Baked Chicken

Baked upward tender inwards a creamy buttermilk sauce, this Buttermilk Baked Chicken is i ugly dish, for sure. But i time yous gustatory modality the flavor, I don't intend you'll mind!

prep time: xv Mcook time: 45 Mtotal time: threescore M

ingredients:

• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 3 T. butter
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ c. buttermilk, divided
• 1 (10.5 oz.) tin cream of mushroom soup
• 1 (4 oz.) tin sliced mushrooms, drained

instructions:

How to create Buttermilk Baked Chicken

1. Heat oven to 425℉. Place butter inwards a lightly greased 9"x13" baking dish; house inwards the oven until butter is melted.
2. Sprinkle chicken breasts amongst tabular array salt together with pepper. Place 1/2 loving cup of the buttermilk inwards a shallow bowl. Place flour inwards about other shallow bowl. Dip chicken inwards the buttermilk, together with then dredge inwards the flour.
3. Place dredged chicken inwards the baking dish. Bake, uncovered, for 25 minutes.
4. Turn chicken pieces over inwards the baking dish, together with bake for 10 minutes more.
5. Meanwhile, stir together the remaining 1 loving cup buttermilk, cream of mushroom soup, together with mushrooms. Pour over the baked chicken together with bake for an additional 10 minutes, shielding amongst aluminum foil if necessary to preclude excessive browning.
6. Serve over rice or couscous.

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Buttermilk Baked Chicken

Baked upward tender inwards a creamy buttermilk sauce, this Buttermilk Baked Chicken is i ugly dish, for sure.  But i time yous gustatory modality the flavor, I don't intend you'll mind!

CLICK HERE TO PIN THIS FOR LATER

This is i of those dishes that exactly isn't pretty.

In fact, I'd tell this dish is downright ugly.  We all accept them ... ugly favorites that sure taste good.  Right?

Well, this is sure i of those ugly duckling dishes, for sure.  And our menage unit of measurement loves it.

Since this recipe has a pretty brusk listing of ingredients, makes occupation of convenience products, together with comes together inwards a unmarried baking pan, it's a real tardily repast to throw together on a weeknight. 

It's i of our comfort-food-go-to-recipes, together with it never disappoints.  Buttermilk makes the chicken super moist together with tender.  As most Southern cooks know, buttermilk pretty much ever makes things better!

Since this recipe has a pretty brusk listing of ingredients, makes occupation of convenience products, together with comes together inwards a unmarried baking pan, it's a real tardily repast to throw together on a weeknight.  

Bake upward the chicken for most 45 minutes, serve it over about rice or couscous, and you've got yourself one real tasty ugly-duckling dinner.

To larn this tardily Buttermilk Baked Chicken started, only dip boneless skinless chicken breasts inwards buttermilk.  Place them inwards a baking dish amongst about melted butter.

Bake the chicken for most xxx minutes to larn it exactly most cooked through.  Then pour a mixture of buttermilk together with cream of mushroom soup over the chicken, coating it completely.

It's i of our comfort-food-go-to-recipes, together with it never disappoints.

Continue to bake the chicken inwards the buttermilk sauce for most 10 minutes more.

The chicken bakes upward tender together with moist.  And the buttermilk sauce bakes into a flavorful, thick together with creamy gravy that's wonderful both amongst the chicken together with spooned over rice or cous cous.

It's non a pretty dish, for sure ... to a greater extent than similar an ugly duckling of the dinner world.  But it sure tastes good.

And piece this  ugly duckling won't grow upward to live a beautiful swan, i time yous gustatory modality the flavor, I don't intend you'll mind.

Thank yous for stopping past times .  We'd dearest to accept yous dorsum soon!

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Main Dishes

Yield: 4 servings

Author: Tracey |

Buttermilk Baked Chicken

Baked upward tender inwards a creamy buttermilk sauce, this Buttermilk Baked Chicken is i ugly dish, for sure. But i time yous gustatory modality the flavor, I don't intend you'll mind!

prep time: xv Mcook time: 45 Mtotal time: threescore M

ingredients:

• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 3 T. butter
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ c. buttermilk, divided
• 1 (10.5 oz.) tin cream of mushroom soup
• 1 (4 oz.) tin sliced mushrooms, drained

instructions:

How to create Buttermilk Baked Chicken

1. Heat oven to 425℉. Place butter inwards a lightly greased 9"x13" baking dish; house inwards the oven until butter is melted.
2. Sprinkle chicken breasts amongst tabular array salt together with pepper. Place 1/2 loving cup of the buttermilk inwards a shallow bowl. Place flour inwards about other shallow bowl. Dip chicken inwards the buttermilk, together with then dredge inwards the flour.
3. Place dredged chicken inwards the baking dish. Bake, uncovered, for 25 minutes.
4. Turn chicken pieces over inwards the baking dish, together with bake for 10 minutes more.
5. Meanwhile, stir together the remaining 1 loving cup buttermilk, cream of mushroom soup, together with mushrooms. Pour over the baked chicken together with bake for an additional 10 minutes, shielding amongst aluminum foil if necessary to preclude excessive browning.
6. Serve over rice or couscous.

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You powerfulness likewise similar these other dinner favorites:

Beef Stroganoff Casserole

Easy Meatball Parmesan Casserole

Turkey & Dressing Casserole

Easy Baked Chicken Cacciatore

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Maple-Fried Apples & Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin

Since moving to The South, I've learned that nosotros pocket-size everything downwards here.  The classic -- fried okra, fried greenish tomatoes, fried turkey.  The new-to-me-but-I-love-it -- fried squash, fried pickles.  And the okay-who-thought-of-that? -- fried Oreos.  Yes, 1 of the footling local cafes I frequent serves fried Oreos equally a dessert. {Oh, in addition to it's totally fabulous! ... inwards illustration you lot were wondering.}

And all these fried things are typically deep-fried.  Ya know, inwards all kinds of smokin' hot petroleum that the food-of-choice is completely submerged inwards until it's a crunchy golden brown, oh-so-delicious-but-no-so-great-for-you bite.

So, when I encountered 'fried apples' on a card 1 day, ...

which is a real mutual Southern side dish selection ... I was a tad confused.  Deep-fried apples??  I couldn't quite motion-picture present how that would hold upwardly done ... or what the halt number would expect like.

Well, it turns out that non all things labeled fried are deep-fried ... similar these apples.  They're genuinely pan-fried.  So why they're non called something else is beyond me.  But whatever you lot telephone outcry upwardly them ... fried apples, pan-fried apples, sauteed apples ... they're fantastic!

When it came fourth dimension for me to plough over these a acquire at home, I had to seat my ain Northern spin on them ... drenching them amongst pure Vermont maple syrup during the frying process, of course!  Mmmmm, in addition to then good.

And you lot desire to know what these Maple-Fried Apples distich wonderfully with?  Pork tenderloin.  I call back they'd hold upwardly dandy amongst most whatever pork tenderloin version, but they're particularly dandy amongst about other maple-inspired staple inwards my kitchen ... Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin.



Can you lot say I'm inwards a maple mood?

It's non difficult to acquire me inwards a maple mood.  I mean, I practically grew upwardly on the stuff.  But this maple mood has been inspired past times Vermont Maple No-Bake Cookies post.  So today, you're getting a two-for-one ... 2 dandy maple recipes inwards 1 post!  You're welcome.

Hope you lot taste about maple-iciousness soon!   If you're inwards a maple mood, these are 2 dandy go-to's.

Maple-Fried Apples & Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin

Source:  Apples - H5N1 Tracey original; Pork Tenderloin - Adapted from Cooking Light magazine

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

Apples:

four to half-dozen fresh Rome or McIntosh apples

1 T. butter

1/4 c. pure maple syrup (preferably Vermont Grade B)

Pork Tenderloin:

2 (1 lb. each) pork tenderloins

1/2 c. Dijon mustard

four T. pure maple syrup

2 T. chopped fresh rosemary

1/2 tsp. bounding main salt

1/2 tsp. solid set down dark pepper

Directions

For the Apples:

1.  Peel, core, in addition to acre apples most 1/4"-1/2" thick.  

2.  Melt butter inwards a saute pan over medium-high heat.  Add apples to the pan in addition to drizzle amongst the maple syrup.  Reduce rut slightly in addition to cook, stirring occasionally, until apples are soft in addition to tender, most xx minutes.

For the Pork Tenderloin:

3.  Place pork on a broiler pan coated amongst cooking spray (I describe of piece of job my pan amongst aluminum foil commencement ... it makes build clean upwardly means easier). 

4.  Combine mustard, maple syrup, rosemary, salt, in addition to pepper inwards a little bowl.  Brush over the pork tenderloins, repeating to acquire equally thick a coating equally possible without creating a large puddle of maple-mustard glaze inwards your pan (you may non role upwardly all the glaze).

5.  Bake at 425 degrees for most 25-40 minutes until a meat thermometer registers 160 degrees (for slightly pink).  Let stand upwardly most 10 minutes earlier slicing. 

These 2 dishes are dandy together, or each is delicious totally on its own.

Enjoy!

Maple-Fried Apples & Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin

Since moving to The South, I've learned that nosotros pocket-size everything downwards here.  The classic -- fried okra, fried greenish tomatoes, fried turkey.  The new-to-me-but-I-love-it -- fried squash, fried pickles.  And the okay-who-thought-of-that? -- fried Oreos.  Yes, 1 of the footling local cafes I frequent serves fried Oreos equally a dessert. {Oh, in addition to it's totally fabulous! ... inwards illustration you lot were wondering.}

And all these fried things are typically deep-fried.  Ya know, inwards all kinds of smokin' hot petroleum that the food-of-choice is completely submerged inwards until it's a crunchy golden brown, oh-so-delicious-but-no-so-great-for-you bite.

So, when I encountered 'fried apples' on a card 1 day, ...

which is a real mutual Southern side dish selection ... I was a tad confused.  Deep-fried apples??  I couldn't quite motion-picture present how that would hold upwardly done ... or what the halt number would expect like.

Well, it turns out that non all things labeled fried are deep-fried ... similar these apples.  They're genuinely pan-fried.  So why they're non called something else is beyond me.  But whatever you lot telephone outcry upwardly them ... fried apples, pan-fried apples, sauteed apples ... they're fantastic!

When it came fourth dimension for me to plough over these a acquire at home, I had to seat my ain Northern spin on them ... drenching them amongst pure Vermont maple syrup during the frying process, of course!  Mmmmm, in addition to then good.

And you lot desire to know what these Maple-Fried Apples distich wonderfully with?  Pork tenderloin.  I call back they'd hold upwardly dandy amongst most whatever pork tenderloin version, but they're particularly dandy amongst about other maple-inspired staple inwards my kitchen ... Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin.



Can you lot say I'm inwards a maple mood?

It's non difficult to acquire me inwards a maple mood.  I mean, I practically grew upwardly on the stuff.  But this maple mood has been inspired past times Vermont Maple No-Bake Cookies post.  So today, you're getting a two-for-one ... 2 dandy maple recipes inwards 1 post!  You're welcome.

Hope you lot taste about maple-iciousness soon!   If you're inwards a maple mood, these are 2 dandy go-to's.

Maple-Fried Apples & Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin

Source:  Apples - H5N1 Tracey original; Pork Tenderloin - Adapted from Cooking Light magazine

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

Apples:

four to half-dozen fresh Rome or McIntosh apples

1 T. butter

1/4 c. pure maple syrup (preferably Vermont Grade B)

Pork Tenderloin:

2 (1 lb. each) pork tenderloins

1/2 c. Dijon mustard

four T. pure maple syrup

2 T. chopped fresh rosemary

1/2 tsp. bounding main salt

1/2 tsp. solid set down dark pepper

Directions

For the Apples:

1.  Peel, core, in addition to acre apples most 1/4"-1/2" thick.  

2.  Melt butter inwards a saute pan over medium-high heat.  Add apples to the pan in addition to drizzle amongst the maple syrup.  Reduce rut slightly in addition to cook, stirring occasionally, until apples are soft in addition to tender, most xx minutes.

For the Pork Tenderloin:

3.  Place pork on a broiler pan coated amongst cooking spray (I describe of piece of job my pan amongst aluminum foil commencement ... it makes build clean upwardly means easier). 

4.  Combine mustard, maple syrup, rosemary, salt, in addition to pepper inwards a little bowl.  Brush over the pork tenderloins, repeating to acquire equally thick a coating equally possible without creating a large puddle of maple-mustard glaze inwards your pan (you may non role upwardly all the glaze).

5.  Bake at 425 degrees for most 25-40 minutes until a meat thermometer registers 160 degrees (for slightly pink).  Let stand upwardly most 10 minutes earlier slicing. 

These 2 dishes are dandy together, or each is delicious totally on its own.

Enjoy!