I thought I would share what I made on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 I didn’t use any recipes really, since it was a bit of a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants meal.\u00a0 What I was originally going to make didn’t pan out due to not having the ingredients I thought was in the pantry and\/or freezer.<\/p>\n
Pork Loin stuffed with goat cheese and craisons – <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n I orginally wanted to get the little pork loins, but Costco was all sold out of those.\u00a0 I got a huge pork loin that was packaged marinated in garlic and onion.\u00a0 I fileted the loin by making one cut through the bottom third to about an inch from the edge.\u00a0 Then on the bigger half, I fileted that again so it was a bit of a tri-fold.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I crumbled a large log of goat cheese and emptied a half bag of craisons across the cheese, spreading evenly.\u00a0 Then I wrapped it up and tied it with butcher’s twine.\u00a0 I took my big baking pan and heat olive oil in that and seared both sides of the loin.\u00a0 Then I put about a cup of water in the pan, covered it in aluminum foil and put it in the oven at 315 degrees F for about 3 hours.<\/p>\n Smashed butternut squash and potatoes – <\/strong><\/p>\n Peel and cube a butternut squash and about 6 medium potatoes.\u00a0 Boil them in water and drain when done.\u00a0 Mash them up, add 1\/2 cup sour cream, 1\/4 cup whippping cream, 1\/4 cup brown sugar, sea salt and cracked pepper to taste.\u00a0 All done.<\/p>\n Mixed veggies in a cream sauce –<\/strong><\/p>\n Easy, just throw a package of cream cheese, a 1\/2 stick of butter, 2 packages of mixed veggies and salt and pepper to taste into a crockpot on low for 4 hours, stirring every hour or so.<\/p>\n An easy and tasty meal! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I thought I would share what I made on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 I didn’t use any recipes really, since it was a bit of a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants meal.\u00a0 What I was originally going to make didn’t pan out due to not having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbJHf-dE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelandofka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}