Feb 23 2014
I had two pork tenderloins thawed to cook. The last time I
did two with maple syrup brine and wanted to do these the same way. I had them
in the brine for 20+ hours.
I had some sweat potatoes to use; I always like them with
pork. I didn’t know what else to have. I got to thinking that people liked
waffles with chicken so why not with pork. I thought it would need a good sauce
other than just maple syrup.
After looking at several recipes I came up with one I could
use Savor Spices WOW seasoning in I thought would complement it. I thought it
turned out great.
After lunch I took the tenderloins out of the brine, rinsed
well and dried. I tied the two together to make one and seasoned well with
Penzey’s Cajun seasoning. It went on a rack and in the fridge for several
hours. I made up the sauce and it went into the fridge after cooling some.
I washed and scrubbed a sweet potato; sliced it into about ¼
inch slices, poured a little melted butter and maple syrup over then double
wrapped in foil. I preheated my Traeger to 250 deg. grill level temp and got
the tenderloin on. I did it a half hour at this temp and then went to 280 deg.
grill level for an hour. I got the sweet potato on the last hour. I went higher
the last half hour the last time I did this but the IT temp was coming up nice
and the grill temp was about 300 deg. for the last half hour.
I had my sauce reheated and tented to pork with foil while I
toasted my waffles. Sorry I was lazy and used frozen Eggo waffles; it would
have been much better with homemade. We had a side of salad and I had blue
cheese dressing. The blue cheese complimented all the flavors in the meal. For
me the sweet potatoes could have been a little more done but the wife said she
liked them that way. We both had my sauce over the pork and waffle and maple
syrup over the potatoes and I added salt and pepper. I like the sweet salty
taste.
We both though this was extra good and it is a keeper recipe
for me. It covered at least 4 of the
basic 7 tastes, sweet, sour, salty and savory.
Sauce ingredients
Browning the bacon
The leftover sauce
Sweet potato ready to wrap
Tenderloins ready to smoke
All done
Sliced
My supper
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