#dinner6

Tastiness

Average overall. Pork was juicy but I couldnt /really/ tell that it had been in that fancy marinade. Rice was bland, i ended up tossing some teriyaki sauce on it but that didnt help that much, maybe just some vinegar-y thing or butter/salt or something would improve.

However the broccoli was so good it was kind of charred (it was pretty dried out overall) but it was delicious. had a nice crunch on the leaves like dust in a good way. definitely cooking all broccoli this long in the future. it was a bit too salty but to be fair i did season it without the lights on.

Convenience

Basically a sheetpan dinner, though I did make the rice in the microwave. Used a glove to oil + spread broccoli to avoid oily hands. the cook-time is perfect to go do a walk or a shower or something.

Also of note was the plastic thing the pork was in had a really nice peel-off-able way to open it, hands didnt even get raw meat juice on them, i just peeled and then dumped it upside down on the sheet pan.

Cook Time

30 mins at 420 F. could maybe have gone longer. cook time felt nice for doing something but not as inconvenient as 45-an hour. microwave rice just needs like, 2.5 mins to boil water then i just let it sit the entire time the pork was in.

Ingredients/Instructions

1) marinated pork loin (wegmans)

2) HT instant white rice, in a box dry, not in a microwave packet kind

3) bag of cut/washed broccoli (wegmans)

Preheat oven, load up a sheet pan with the broccoli + oil/season/spread it around, leave gap in middle

Place pork in the pork-shaped gap you left

shove it in oven for like 30-35 mins (you can check it with a meat thermometer if you care that much)

also put water + rice (1.5 cups of each for 3 servings) in a container, mic it for like 2.5 mins til water bubbles up, put on container lid and let it chill in microwave

throw some seasoning on the rice if you want

Final Notes

Rice took less of it to be just as filling as couscous, but was texturally inferior. wouldnt wanna waste couscous on this as it was sauce-less. a sauce wouldve been nice but is a lot of work.

maybe try a normal pork loin/see if that is a lot cheaper than the marinated one cuz idk if the difference was that big (though the packaging of the marinated one allegedly made it able to last like, a week longer than i thought it would according to the use by date)

also charred broccoli is delicious