I just loved the idea of The Secret Recipe Club when I saw it and I have joined up. Each blogger is assigned a participating food blogger to make a recipe from. As it’s a secret, all posts are published at the same time from each group of bloggers. I was given Jennifer Sikora’s blog For Such A Time As This as my secret blog. Jennifer has been blogging since 2007. She is a baker, loves to shop and is a dog mom – sounds like we have a few things in common.

I chose Jennifer’s recipe for Herb Crusted Pork Loin as the dish I would prepare. Below you will find my adaption of the recipe. This was made necessary as I could not find untrimmed pork loin and so bought a pork belly roast to cook. As the weight of my roast was exactly half that of the one given my Jennifer I halved her rub. You could smell the garlic cooking, and the meat tasted great. What a great way to try something new!

© herb crusted belly pork

HERB CRUSTED BELLY PORK

Recipe adapted from Jennifer Sikora

ingredients:

0.964kg pork belly roast

½ tablespoon salt flakes

1 tablespoon olive oil

2 cloves garlic, minced

½ teaspoon dried thyme

½ teaspoon dried basil

½ teaspoon dried rosemary

method:

take the roast out of the fridge at allow to dry on a rack for at least 2 hours

preheat the oven to 180° Celsius

pat the pork dry

combine the salt, oil, garlic and herbs in a bowl

massage the mixture onto the pork with your fingers, ensuring you cover the meat and the fat

place the pork on a rack in a roasting pan

roast for 30 minutes per 500g of meat, plus an additional 25 minutes

allow to rest for 10 minutes – we did this under the grill to crisp up the fat to make crackling

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Tandy

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