Distinctive Dinners: Family Dinner at Bev's
Stuffed Pork Roast | Panzanella Salad | Spaetzle | Carrot Cake
Stuffed Pork Roast
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Medium |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | The Other Meat Entrée |
| Meal: | Family Dinner at Bev's (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 3 | lb | pork, boneless roast |
| 1 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 2 | Tb | pepper, fresh cracked |
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| 1 | lb | spinach, fresh |
| 0.25 | cup | sun dried tomato |
| 1 | small | onions, diced |
| 8 | cloves | garlic, minced |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
| 2.5 | oz | hazelnuts, toasted |
| 1 | package | cotton cooking string |
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| 2 | oz | mushrooms, sliced |
| 1 | 10.5 oz can | beef consommé |
| 10 | oz | wine, dry red |
| 2 | oz | butter, salted |
| 2 | Tb | currant jelly |
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Butterfly the pork roast. This is easier than you think. Start at the top make a cut down one side about 1/3 of the thickness of the roast. Cut down stopping the same thickness from the bottom; repeat on the other side. (think of an envelope with two flaps) Cover with plastic wrap and pound with a rolling pin to flatten the roast. Salt and pepper both the inside and outside of the roast.
Sauté spinach, onions, sun-dried tomatoes (chopped) and garlic in a pan until spinach is wilted. Salt and pepper to taste. Add hazelnuts and cool.
Spread the cooled spinach mixture on the pork roast. Roll the roast back to its original shape. Tie with cotton string in several places to hold it together.
Brown in an oven-proof pan. Place pan in a pre-heated 350 degree oven for 45 minutes or until a thermometer registers 160 degrees. Remove from oven, remove meat to a platter to “rest”. Place mushrooms in the pork pan on medium, cook for 2 minutes. Add consommé and red wine. Cook for 3 minutes. Whirl in butter and jelly and pour over pork.
Panzanella Salad
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Family Dinner at Bev's (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 6 | slices | bread, Italian |
| 3 | cloves | garlic, chopped |
| 1 | 16 oz can | tomatoes, diced |
| 0.25 | small | onion, red |
| 2 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 3 | Tb | vinegar, red wine |
| 1 | Tb | capers |
| 1 | small | squash. yellow |
| 2 | Tb | cilantro, chopped |
| 2 | Tb | cheese, Romano, grated |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Slice bread in ¾” slices, then into cubes. Place in bowl, add tomatoes, thinly sliced onion, capers, and garlic. Dice yellow squash and add to bowl. Add oil, vinegar, romano cheese, cilantro and salt and pepper to taste. Let sit for 15 minutes before serving.
Spaetzle
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Starch / Pasta |
| Meal: | Family Dinner at Bev's (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 2 | large | egg |
| 1.5 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
| 0.5 | cup | milk, 2 % |
| 1 | tsp | salt, table |
| 0.25 | tsp | baking powder |
| 2 | Tb | butter, salted |
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Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Mix the ingredients in a bowl; the dough will be very loose. Place a colander over the boiling water and pour the batter 1/4th at a time in to the colander and press through with a spatula. Allow spaetzle to cook until light and fluffy, a few minutes. Remove to a bowl filled with cold water. Drain spaetzle; heat butter in a frying pan, add spaetzle and toss to heat.
Carrot Cake
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 12 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Family Dinner at Bev's (Distinctive Dinners) |
| 1.5 | cup | oil, vegetable |
| 2 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 4 | large | egg |
| 2 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
| 1.5 | tsp | baking soda |
| 1.5 | tsp | baking powder |
| 2 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 1 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 0.75 | lb | carrots, shredded |
| 1 | cup | walnuts, chopped |
| 0.5 | cup | raisins, golden |
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Cream sugar, eggs and
oil.
Mix in flour, baking soda
and powder, cinnamon
and salt. Add grated
carrots, nuts and raisins.
Bake in greased tube pan
or (2) 9 inch cake pans for
40- 50 minutes at 350
degrees.
Cover with cream cheese
icing. *
Note * See cream cheese
icing for recipe.
This recipe serves 12. If
you scale the recipe to 8
or less bake 20 minutes
less.
Shown here as a 3layer
cake.
