Best Ever Roast Pork and others...

Six Hour Roast Pork

now don't let the title scare you this is really a 30 minute meal.  Once you stick the roast in the oven, the oven does all the work for you  :)

4ish lb shoulder roast
salt and pepper

Yep, that's it.  Score the rind about 3/8 inch apart, don't cut through to the meat.  Rub salt and pepper all over the roast, including the rind.  Place pork, skin side up in a roasting pan.  Roast 30 min at 425F.

After the 30 minutes, cover with lid or tinfoil and turn down oven to 325F.  Roast for 4 1/2 hours.  Baste meat with drippings.  Return to oven and roast another hour -uncovered.

Remove meat from pan and spoon out fat.  Pour in about 2 cups of water or stock.  Deglaze pan and make gravy.

Yummy!!



I may have posted this next cake recipe on my other blog, but it's so good I'll  post it again here.  Even though it's not chocolate, Colin really likes this cake.  It's substantial and stays moist for a long time.   As you can see, even missing the glaze doesn't slow down the cake monsters.

Brown Sugar Pound Cake

1 c butter (usually use margarine)                    6 eggs
2 c br. sugar                                                   1 c wt sugar
2 2/3 c flour                                                    1/2 t salt
2 t vanilla                                                        1 c sour cream -low fat/no fat works just as well
1/4 t bk soda

Cream together the butter and the sugars.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg. Add in vanilla.   Dissolve baking soda in the sour cream.  Mix flour and salt together.  Alternately add dry ingredients and sour cream.  Pour into a greased and floured bundt pan -use a larger size one.  I have a number of the cast aluminum Nordic Ware bundt pans and they work wonderfully.
Bake 275F for 20 minutes then turn oven up to 325F and continue baking for another 50ish minutes.  Test.

Let pan cool for a few minutes, the cake will pull away from the sides.  Turn cake onto cooling rack.  When completely cool, spoon over this glaze:
2T butter, melted
1T water
1t vanilla
6T icing sugar

Individual 3 Minute Chocolate Cakes -no, really

I've had this recipe in my file for a while now and have finally given it a try.  It turned out well.  I found it a little too chocolaty (you can tell I'm not a Fletcher -ha ha) and will use less cocoa next time.  Colin and Ella inhaled theirs.

In a microwaveable 2 cup measuring cup mix the following:
4T flour
4T sugar
2T cocoa

Stir in 1 egg, 3T milk and 3T oil.  Make sure to get all the dry ingredients mixed in.  Microwave for 3 minutes on high.  Wait a couple minutes till it stops rising and sets.  Turn out onto a plate.

Obviously, this recipe would feed a couple little people.  Colin found it a bit much to finish, but then we'd had a large supper.