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[saansaturday]

Friday: take-out sushi

Saturday:
Pulled Pork with Cherry Chipotle Chutney on Poppy Buns

1 pork roast

Dry Rub:
7 tablespoons extra hot red chile powder
4 heaping tablespoons raw sugar
2 tablespoons granulated garlic
1 tablespoon onion powder
2 heaping tablespoons sea salt
fresh ground pepper until your arm gets tired
1 heaping tablespoon cumin seed, crushed

Combine all ingredients and rub all over meat that has been rinsed and dried with a paper towel. Use plenty. Of course there will be more of the dry rub than needed for one roast--so save the rest. After discovering how easy this roast is, I'll certainly be doing it fairly often.

Wrap roast in foil and place in the oven at 125° C (250 F) for about 7 hours. The meat will be very tender and can be pulled with 2 forks when it's done.

Serve on poppyseed or sesame seed buns with the Black as Night Chutney:


Cherry Chipotle Chutney

1 head roasted garlic
3 small onions, or 1 big one, chopped
1 cup raw sugar, or more, to taste
2 cups orange juice, or more, to taste
3/4 cup rice vinegar
3/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 cups, or more, dried sour cherries
a handful of currants
a small handful of candied orange peel
2 minced chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, or more, to taste
a little salt, to taste

Put the cloves of roast garlic in a large, heavy saucepan along with all the other ingredients. Simmer for 2 or 3 hours until dark and rich in color. Adjust seasoning to taste. This should keep for 1 month in the refrigerator or it can be frozen. After dinner I froze half of the leftovers.

Serve the pork and chutney on toasted buns. V put coleslaw on one of his sandwiches; I didn't get a report of what he thought of that.
Coleslaw (Good Eats recipe)



Sunday:
Banana Insanity Pancakes (buttermilk pancakes made with walnut oil instead of veggie oil, with loads of toasted walnuts and bananas, spiced with cinnamon and cardamom, served with maple syrup &/or butter &/or cardamom whipped cream)

Fantastic Roasted Chicken with Celeriac and Potatoes (Jamie Oliver's recipe)--the flavor "bits" as I called them--prosciutto, lemon peel, garlic and fresh thyme in butter under the breast skin--brought this chicken to the food for the gods level. :)
Homemade Whole Wheat Cloverleaf Rolls



The real stars were the chicken and the sandwiches, both of which I neglected to photograph because I was too involved in devouring them. :)