Lately I feel like my cooking has really changed. First, we eat our main meal at lunch and eat something light or sometimes just a piece of fruit or oatmeal for dinner. Second, I rarely even use the stove! It seems like it’s either the air fryer or the pressure cooker. When I do use the stove, it rarely involves more than one pot. Third, because I buy most everything when it’s on sale, our grocery budget is about 20 to 25% of what it would be if we were eating out. Fourth, almost everything I make seems to provide us with at least two meals . . sometimes three. I think back to all the cooking I did in MO and when we were first here in Texas. I think of all the begging and scheming I did in KY and MO to try to get a gas stove and now, I so rarely use it that I don’t think I’d even be upset if it was electric. I’m glad it isn’t electric but dang . . why was I cooking so much before?
When we got takeout at a local Filipino restaurant the other day, Vince was looking at the menu and decided he wanted me to make something with adobo sauce. Yesterday’s lunch was Pork Adobo, with my little twist, and it was so delicious and so quick and easy that I’ll be making it again and again. Vince loved it and there were enough leftovers to have it again. I started out with this recipe but I made enough changes that I’ll share my recipe.
When we go out to eat, about the minimum we spend is about $20 and that’s if we’re getting something that’s on special. We don’t even seem to be able to go to the taco place for less than $20 any more. We go out to eat, Vince pays and I don’t pay much attention to the price, then I cook something quick and easy and realize how much money we waste by going out to eat.
Pork Tenderloin
For this recipe, I used half of the pork tenderloin and froze the other half. That means we’ll be getting two meals from a little over $2 worth of meat! Not bad.
Pork Adobo
Most of the recipes I looked at called for pork belly, which is nearly impossible to find around here, or pork butt, which wasn’t on sale, so . . pork tenderloin it was. Had I used a pork butt, I would have used the pressure cooker but the tenderloin was plenty tender just browning in the skillet.
Pork Adobo
For this recipe, I used my cast iron deep skillet.
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Jocelyn Hayes Thurston says
Delicious sounding and I will definitely be giving that list of sauce ingredients a try. Thanks for sharing.
Phyllis says
Thanks for sharing. Looks really good.
Pauline Kennelly says
Great timing for me! Our local HEB had pork butt on sale for $1.00 a pound, I put it in our basket and yesterday I sliced it into 2 inch steaks, seasoned it with my rub and cooked it on a low temperature n the hot air cooker and it was done in about 3 hours. I was going to have pulled pork tonight, but after seeing your recipe, that’s how I’ll serve it tonight. Will do the pulled pork another day. Thanks Judy