50 minutes ago, patti said:The manager of the food pantry offered me a couple of small pork shoulder roasts to use for a CFM, so that means I’ll put my other idea for this week on hold. When people donate meat, someone has to cook it, and I accept! I will pick up the roasts tomorrow and buy a third one, if necessary.
Pulled pork sandwiches? Pulled pork baked potatoes? With pasta? Not pulled pork? TBD
If you can cut the roasts into steaks, would Filipino Pork Adobo appeal? It's an easy recipe and flavorful - a bit tangy with vinegar and garlic and lots of umami from the soy sauce. I usually serve it with white rice and steamed veggies like carrots + broccoli.
Ingredients are pretty simple.
https://panlasangpinoy.com/filipino-food-pork-adobo-recipe/ but I add a bit of brown sugar at the end, to taste.
Maybe more like this:
https://www.recipetineats.com/filipino-pork-adobo/
There are Filipino-style recipes to make a little dessert side, like a flan or a banana fritter or banana Spring Roll. Not sure you'd even want to do that though. Banana bread might be a fun addition instead if you were so inclined. 🙂
Turon or Maruya are the names of some of the Filipino ones, we used to get them in Hawaii.
I made a type of banana fritter years ago, but didn't have access to the right type of bananas so just mashed them up a bit, I think.
If you want to do something else with your pork roast this time, keep the Adobo in mind for the future. It's a very inexpensive dish to make and has quite complex flavour. I almost always have some pork shoulder steaks in the freezer for making Adobo. It's also an excellent chicken dish.
