To good not to pass along.
Cut a pork loin into inch and a quarter chops. Cut a pocket into the center with the tip of a knife. Stuffed with ground olives and feta mixture and draped with some great local apple smoked bacon. Smoked for about 1.5 hours with apple and finished on a grill to crisp the bacon. OOffaaaa, yum yum. Even my four year old was askin' for more.
mld
Sounds good :P.
QuoteStuffed with ground olives and feta mixture and draped with some great local apple smoked bacon.
That does sound good. I have stuffed them with a feta, spinach, garlic, fresh ground black pepper and pine nuts mixture before. I usually grill them. Now I want to try smoking them after hearing your idea. I was going to do those this weekend anyway, but I was going to skip the spinach. I don't feel like getting e. coli this week ;) Now I have another option. What kind of olives did you use?
Malc
BTW, I see you live in Northeast Ohio. I am in Struthers, right outside of Youngstown. Small world.
I'm in Mentor to be more precise, however I'm in the Y'town area often on business. I try to stop in and visit a veterinarian friend in Poland when I get in the area, pretty much your backyard.
mark
Sounds great, i am going to give this a trial run tonight for a larger serving this weekend.
That's weird. My vet is in Poland. Very small world.
Would your vet be John Daugherty by any chance?
mld
Made a run at this last night with a little variation. I sauteed about 1/2 C diced red onions, 2 cloves of garlic, some cilantro, and about half an apple. Once that was all cooked and softened, i took it off the heat and mixed in some graham cracker crumbs (didn't have any bread crumbs around so i just crushed those up instead). Slapped it on top of a butterflied pork chop and smoked for about an hour with Apple wood. Took it out and topped with Feta and then onto the grill to finish. I only made one and that was a big mistake seeing as how this one lasted all of 2 minutes.
I wanted to top with bacon but since i was only making one, i didn't want to defrost a whole package. I'm thinking that next time i will cook the bacon ahead of time and crumble it in with the topping mixture. Thanks again winemakers for this idea, i think it will be a hit this weekend.
Well, my wife usually handles the vet visits, so I am not sure of his name. We go to the Poland Vet Clinic, so if he is there it is him.
Malc
Small world, that would by our friend. Great doc by the way, and he enjoys good wine as well!
mld