Columbus Foodie

One sure sign that autumn is upon us is apples (and apple cider!) everywhere you look, and apple is the scent that more than anything else, just completely rips me out of summer mode and starts my obsession with squash, pears, and everything else autumn.

So when I found out that one of my favorite food blog event organizers, Zorra, was hosting Apple Day, I really wanted to participate. The only requirement is preparing an apple dish.

I usually go sweet for these sorts of challenges, but this time around, I wanted to do something a bit more savory.

We didn’t have any pork chops on hand at the time, so we decided to make a recipe with pork tenderloin which was adapted from this wonderful recipe over at Anne’s Food. It made 3 very generous servings, when served along with israeli couscous and a cauliflower au gratin.

Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Creamy Apple Cider Sauce

1 lb. pork tenderloin, sliced into 1″ thick medallions
1/2 stick butter, divided
1 tbsp. oil
Salt and pepper (to taste)
1 cup apple cider
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 chicken bouillon cube, crushed
1/2 tbsp. soy sauce
1 large apple, medium dice
3 tbsp. boysenberry jam

Heat 2 tbsp. butter and oil in a saute pan, and fry tenderloin medallions seasoned with salt and pepper until lightly browned. Set aside on a plate and cover with foil to keep warm.

Whisk the apple cider with the flour, and bring to a boil in a saucepan. When boiling, add crushed bouillon powder and cream, and then add soy sauce. Add the medallions to the saucepan, and let them cook in the apple cider sauce for five to ten minutes.

While the sauce is simmering, peel and dice the apples, and fry in remaining butter until softened. Add the apples to the sauce, and stir in a bit of boysenberry jam to add complexity. This dish goes really well with israeli couscous.

You know, I just now noticed that I haven’t posted for 9 days? Sorry about that ::sheepish grin:::

No excuses, other than the general “haven’t felt up to it” and the fact we’ve been doing a lot of traveling in the past month or so. So I still haven’t really settled down and let things get back to normal. And it isn’t that we stopped cooking, because we definitely have been cooking. I’ve just been really bad about posting.

So I’ll be posting quite a few things in the next few days - our review of “Melt Bar and Grilled” up in Lakewood (a suburb of Cleveland), quite a few meals that we’ve cooked in the past few weeks, a couple of apple desserts we’ll be baking today, the August (and hopefully September, not too long after that) roundup, etc. In the meantime, check the menu section - I’ve made quite a few updates and removed some menus of places that up and closed since the last update.

I also apologize about no farmer’s market updates. To be honest with you, I’ve only gone once in the past 5 weeks. I didn’t go this week because I already have everything I need to cook in the next week and it would have been wasted money to buy anything else. I hope to be back in the swing of things next week. Thanks for your patience.