Slow Cooking

November 15th - Slow food is not my normal M.O...it's more like Ready Steady Cook. However I'd bought some pork from the butcher and was looking for something to do with it.  I never cooked a lot of pork because my daughter was not really keen so I trawled the Internet for inspiration.  I thought a Jamie Oliver recipe for Slow Roasted Spiced Pork Loin with Black Eye Beans and Tomatoes sounded quite nice. First the meat was scored and rubbed with a mixture of salt, paprika, oil and lemon juice, them roasted for 30minutes in a hot oven. Then 3 sliced onions, a couple of whole chillies (recipe said 6-8!!), rosemary, paprika and chorizo added to a bit of the fat from the tin and fried before adding the chopped tomatoes, beans, a glass of water and garlic. The pork was added back and the dish returned to the oven...supposedly until the whole lot was 'meltingly tender'. Can't say mine was! How does he get meltingly tender meat without burning the rest? Who knows! And even with 2 chillies it was fairly hot. Perhaps a recipe that I won't bother trying another time. Anyway here's what it looked like..