I woke up this Saturday morning quite early (10am = early by my standards) with a phone call from my dear friend in Sydney. As our conversations usually happen, talk quickly turned to her impending visit to Melbourne and the vast food options we were to churn through in the short time she was here.
These thoughts escaped my mind until later in the afternoon when I was sitting on the tram with my fellow household inhabitant discussing what we should cook for dinner. It had been a good few hours walking through the city for us that afternoon, so feeling a little bit zapped for energy we resorted to the idea of cooking something easy and, for the lack of a better term, plain. Salmon with soba noodles? OK then, easy, done.
However, said dinner option didn't sit well with me and as we got closer and closer to the market we re-thought our strategy. It's a long weekend, we said. Let's have something hearty, we said. Let's do something a bit different tonight, we said. Then what shall we do? Well, thinking back to my early morning pillow talk and my 'last supper' in Sydney many months ago which consisted of a delicious pork roast, thought turned to some Otway free range pork housemate and I saw for sale a few weeks back and the creative juices started flowing.
After a back and forth trip to the wine shop, supermarket and the grower's market, we hobbled home with our bounty and got to cooking an early dinner to recharge the batteries before heading out to watch some fireworks in the city.
As I was peering into the oven watching the pork sizzle and tenderise, I called a friend who lives nearby and ordered her to come over just so we had a witness to the true magnificence of what we had created. I'll let the pictures do the talking here.
on the menu tonight...
roast pork with peaches and lemon thyme butter
served with roasted baby chat potatoes, garlic cloves, shallots and peaches
and dutch carrots infused with cumin, thyme and chardonnay
and wilted silverbeet
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