I’d like to use our rotisserie for dinner on Sunday - did chickens last weekend which were awesome, but frankly, I don’t have any good ideas beyond that, so throw out some ideas/recipes if ya got em!
One of our favorites is boston butt pork roast with about 15-20 garlic cloves inserted into the meat. We used to do boneless pork loins but it’s almost impossible to find one now that’s not injected with “15% flavor solution”. WTF is that crap and why do you have to put it in my pork?
Occasionally I get a pork roast that looks like a miniature pork-version of a standing rib roast. The rib bones are fairly short. I think they call it pork loin rib roast or something like that. It’s really cheap and makes a good pork roast imo. Or if your splurging for Mother’s Day; a standing rib roast.
The roulade/braciole Slowbrew posted sounds really good too. Mmmmmmm, Giada.
On the assumption that hispanic markets are not rare in New Mexico, they often sell minimally processed pork (and other meat).
I can get non-injected loins and tenderloins at my family owned neighborhood grocery store but I have not seen one in a normal grocery store in a long time. That said they always seem to have loin chops that appear to have come from a non-injected loin. If they are doing butchering in the store, it wouldn’t hurt to ask if you can buy the loin from the butcher counter rather than the packaged injected stuff from the case.
thanks guys - I hope to stop by my butcher tonight on the way home from work and take a look at these cuts you’ve mentioned and see what I’ll do - I may get something tonight or just price it out and go back.
I have a feeling standing rib roast may be a bit too much this time, but perhaps there’s a sale - pork loin might be the winner.
Czech Pils, Bock, Helles, RIS and IPA all on tap - should be a good day!
stopped by my butcher - pork loin roast with bone = $4.99/lb. Rib roast = $12.99/lb so I went with the pork figuring that since this is only my second usage of the rotisserie, I’d rather minimize my losses if I screw something up.
Think I’m gonna go with what euge said unless I get a crazy hair otherwise.
Euge - by ‘stud’ did you mean insert cloves of garlic into the meat? I’ve done that often before, just checking as I’m not familiar with that term.
I remember a Raichlen show for German Spiessbraten, a stuffed pork loin. It looked awesome. He said it was traditional to spit it perpendicular to the rotisserie. I don’t see that in this recipe, but I would have bet he said it on the show. http://www.primalgrill.org/recipe_details.asp?RecipeID=160&EpisodeID=38
Pork loin is a great choice; that’s what I would have recommended. The cut of meat looks like it was designed for a rotisserie. Maybe I’ll do one of those. I just wish I could get the kind of pork I got as a kid, before they had bred it to taste like chicken.
Alton Brown did an interesting episode on making gyros (I think) on the rotisserie. Have to look that one up.
If you do the roast pork, think about making a fruit-based sauce to accompany it. It really goes well with apples, onions, darker fruit (prunes), etc. I got a bunch of rhubarb in the CSA box this week; I was thinking about making a rhubarb chutney. It would go perfectly with pork loin. Maybe I just like the word chutney. Almost as much as spatchcock.
Dude, where have you been? (I know, in France, in a kilt) He’s like everywhere. Almost as bad as Bobby Flay. Especially as it gets to grilling season. You can’t mention barbecue without him popping up. Fortunately, he knows what he’s talking about.
Yeah - only PBS I can get out here is from video.pbs.org through a proxy. I REALLY miss This Old House. Although this guy doesn’t seem quite as good as Alton Brown
I’m right with you - I was thinking of making two - one with perhaps apricot or apples and then I have a recipe from a Giada book for a fig port reduction sauce that is incredible.