A Recipe You Have to Try!

Inspiration! I really do love being busy at home, but I find many other areas to keep busy to avoid cooking. Not a good idea. Not when you’re on a budget and you have three big guys to feed. I’ve really been working hard to cook consistently for our financial, physical and emotional health. There’s nothing like family suppers to keep everybody close!

Even though I don’t love to cook, I REALLY love to eat. Yesterday I tried a recipe that satisfied my love for simple and yummy. It’s a recipe that The Queen, LeAnn Rice, sent out months ago to our team. Sweet Teri, our amazing resource coordinator, gave it to LeAnn, and the two of them “tweaked” it into something wonderful. Trust me, even if you think you don’t like sauerkraut, you have to try this!

Crock Pot Apple Pork Roast

1 large onion, chopped or thinly sliced
Pork sirloin roast, boneless—whatever size works for your family (remove string)
2 16oz. packages sauerkraut
12. oz. frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
2 tsp. crushed garlic
½ C. brown sugar
½ tsp. cayenne pepper (optional but delicious zing)

Arrange onion in bottom of crock pot. Lay roast on top of onions. Rinse and drain sauerkraut and spread over pork roast. Pour juice over all. Spread the crushed garlic over the sauerkraut and sprinkle with the brown sugar and cayenne pepper.

Set crock pot on low and cook for 8 hours or until pork begins to fall apart.

I watched Julie and Julia several weeks ago. I don’t know if I’m up to cooking all the way through Julia Child’s, but I might make it a goal to cook all the way through LeAnn’s cook book! Tell me what your family thinks when you serve this meal.