Flanders Pork & Apples

Here is another delicious recipe. We got pork center loin from SAM's the other day for $1.48 a lb. This was the first recipe I made with this meat. I had some apples in the fridge and decided this was the dish to make.

Flanders Pork & Apples

From the cookbook: Casserole Treasury by Lousene Rousseau Brunner

2 lbs. pork shoulder or loin sliced 1/2" thick

12 small white onions ( I chopped up some Spanish onion that I had)

2 TBS. flour

!/2 C. white wine ( I used o.j. and a dash of Southern Comfort)

1/2 c. chicken broth or condensed consomme ( I used chicken broth)

Salt & Pepper to taste

1 tsp. dried oregano and rosemary mixed or 1 Tbs. fresh, chopped

(I had fresh rosemary and dried oregano)

1 tsp. minced parsley (I used dried)

1 lb. tart cooking apples, peeled and sliced

1. Trim fat off the pork slices and try out in a heavy skillet. Skim out the brown particles, and saute in the fat, the pork and onions. Remove to a medium casserole.

2. If there is much fat left in the skillet pour it out and measure back 2 TBS. Stir in the flour and slowly add the wine and broth, stirring until the sauce is smooth and thick.

3. Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper, add the herbs, and pour over the casserole. Cover tightly and bake 2 hours in a slow oven, 300 degrees. (If your casserole lid does not fit tightly cover the casserole first with heavy brown paper and then put on the lid.)

4. When the casserole has baked 1 1/2 hours stir in the apples, cover, again, and finish baking. Serves 6.

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I did this in the crockpot. Putting the sliced apples in first, then the meat, then the sauce. Cooked it on low for about 6-8 hours.







This seems like it would be a great dish for you up north with your frigid temps and white stuff on the ground. You can stay indoors smelling something delicious making for dinner.

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL

Thank you Thrifty Country Woman

I want to thank a sweet blogging friend Thrifty Country Woman for her recipe for Dutch Apple Pie, which I made yesterday afternoon. It was delicious. I made a butter crust because I had no shortening, and I also added cloves, nutmeg and allspice to the apples. This was easy and delicious. Since it is officially autumn, with most of you feeling and seeing the change in season and we are wishing and hoping for a change, I felt like making an apple pie. We went to our little veggie/fruit market yesterday and I bought some apples that I never heard of and I can't remember what the name was. It started with a P, I think. There's something about the smell of apples with the spices that just shouts 'Fall is here'.

Do visit The Thrifty Country Woman for this recipes and others, and to see her lovely country home and enjoy her writings on a simpler, wonderful life.

Below are two pictures for you to enjoy and get your cooking juices flowing.

"I love fall! Fall is exciting.
It's apples and cider.
It's an airborne spider.
It's pumpkins in bins.
It's burrs on dog's chins.
It's wind blowing leaves.
It's chilly red knees.
It's nuts on the ground.
It's a crisp dry sound.
It's green leaves turning
And the smell of them burning.
It's clouds in the sky.
It's fall. That's why...
I love fall."
Author Unknown

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL