Crock Recipes

I fell short of my goal to come up with a week's worth of meals to fix in the crock pot. I found three and tonight's meal was one of them. It was really tasty and JillyBean gobbled it up like she hadn't had food in a week.

I'm posting this from memory...Also, I sort of changed it up a bit from the original recipe. I think that the original called for whole cranberries but I couldn't find them and used a can of whole cranberry sauce instead.

3-5 pound pork roast
1 can whole cranberries
1/4 cup of honey
a bit of ground cloves (maybe 1/2 teaspoon)
a bit of ground ginger (again, maybe 1/2 teaspoon)
about 1/2 tablespoon of orange rind

Season pork roast with salt and pepper and place in crock pot. Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl then pour over roast. Cook on low for 8-10 hours. The pork was so yummy and tender. It fell apart as I took it out of the crock pot.

I served this with fresh green beans cooked the following way:

Add 2-3 tablespoons of coarse salt to boiling water then add fresh green beans and cook for 5-10 minutes (you want them crispy). Drain and put in a serving bowl. Drizzle beans with good extra virgin olive oil and serve warm. (this is one of JillyBean's favorite things to eat. she'll much on left over green beans at snack time)