I spent the morning doing a lot of prep for dinner (marinating a pork tenderloin and making the lime dressing for it) and doing various cooking projects:
-Made a big batch of hot pepper jelly (a bit runny as my pectin somehow went bad?)
-Pickled some turnips
-Made falafel mix for tomorrow's dinner
-Made the tahini dressing (see above)
-Grilled and froze eggplants for later use
-Made a cookie dough (Maple-Pecan from Sally's Baking Addiction) for dessert later in the week
And maybe something else I can't remember. Happily puttered around until after 1, at which point we decided to go for a walk AND go to Costco. Unsurprisingly, this was too ambitious a plan. especially since Costco didn't have what we needed and we ended up going to BJ's, too. So we didn't get home until about 6...I threw the pork into the oven as quickly as I could and prepped the rest of dinner. It was supposed to be served over cellophane noodles but I just went with rice; I also just used whatever vegetables I wanted (carrots, yellow pepper, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and purple cabbage) and so essentially we had rice bowls. The pork loin was the unexpected star...the recipe was from SK and if I ever find myself in possession of another tenderloin I would make it again. The hoisin marinade added a lot of flavor and it wasn't at all dry like I feared it would be.
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