I made a braised pork today — cooked at ~300 degrees for about six hours. A few days ago, I mixed up a marinade for the bone-in pork roast.

• 2 Tbsp kosher salt
• 4 Tbsp maple syrup
• 1 Tbsp ground mustard
• 1/2 cup Dijon mustard
• 2 Tbsp freshly ground black pepper
• 1 Tbsp smoked sweet paprika
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

I coated the roast in the marinade then vacuum packaged it. Six hours was too long — a more marbled roast might have been fine, but the one we had got dry. Drizzling it with maple syrup helped!

Lunch today was a salad with grilled apples and spicy peanut sauce. The peanut sauce

• 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 1 tablespoons soy sauce (this was a little much)
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  
• 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
• 1 teaspoon sriracha (could have used a little more)
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 cup coconut milk

In a small skillet, mix the peanut butter, lemon juice, rice vinegar, soy sauce, maple syrup, and sesame oil. Heat over a low heat to melt and combine. Add ground ginger. Add coconut milk to thin it into a dressing. Add sriracha to taste — Anya liked it with a teaspoon of sriracha, but Scott wanted it a little biffier (Anya’s word for spicy). I hard boiled a few fresh eggs — the yolks on the fresh eggs are awesome. Not dry at all.

Tonight, we made turkey, spinach, feta burgers with fresh rolls. The rolls were my usual dough recipe (4c flour, 1T yeast, 1T sugar, 1t salt, 1T oil/butter, 1/2c wheat gluten) with a six hour rise time in a warm oven followed by a really short rise time after shaping and an egg wash. Cooked at 375 for 15 minutes — could have used an extra minute or two.

The burgers were ~1.5 lbs ground turkey, 1/4 large red onion chopped, 1 package frozen chopped spinach (defrosted with water squeezed out), 2t salt, 1t pepper, 6 oz feta, 2 eggs (minus what was used for the egg wash on my rolls), seranno chillis, and about 1/2c panko. Grilled about 5 minutes each side at a high temp. Very good — may want to try adding mustard to burger mix next time.