Honey Butter Pork Tenderloin

Not many ingredients but here is what you need. 6 tablespoons butter, 8 tablespoons honey.  Black pepper and Cajun seasoning to taste and whatever size pork tenderloin you want.  (I chose two) You will also need a pan that is oven safe for your tenderloin

Use the Cajun seasoning and the black pepper to coat the tenderloin, (don't be shy) NO oil, but on a medium heat brown the tenderloin on all sides. While it  browns in a separate pan....

Melt your butter and honey on a medium heat, and then pour it over your tenderloins when they are brown.

After browning and pouring honey butter over them, put them in a 375 degree oven for 20 minutes, then remove, slice it on the diagonal and place on a separate dish to rest.  

 

 

Some of my thicker pieces were a little pink but that is okay because you are going to cook it on the stove a bit.  While it is resting add 1/4 cup of water to your butter and honey mixture.  With a fork stir it pulling up the pork bits from the bottom.

Bring it to a soft boil, at a med heat until it is about half cooked down.

After it has cooked down add your pork and cover...YOU HAVE TO BE PATIENT with this part.  Keep your heat at a medium low heat and let it ride!  Because it has butter in it, it will not stick!  Seriously, this takes about 20-30 minutes.  But it is so worth the wait!

That is NOT burn, it is crusted honey.  Heaven if you will.   I served it with candied carrots and a salad.  It was yummylicious, Overall the pork took about and hour to fix but I wasn't continuously working on it.

 

 

 Sarcasm Note- Your Jewish friends are gonna love this one!

Balsamic Garlic Pork Tenderloin

This is so easy and really good!

 So obviously, you need 4-5 cloves of garlic and your favorite balsamic  vinegar

Then 2 teaspoons of coarse salt, 2 teaspoons of freshly ground 

    pepper and 2 T. of olive oil.

  Start by spraying a skillet with oil & browning the tenderloin on all sides

After you brown your tenderloin, combine the minced garlic, salt, pepper, oil and vinegar and coat it up!

Place it in the oven for  30 minutes at 325 degrees.  (I'm just going to tell you, other recipes say 10-12 minutes, lower temps ect. but  that makes for a disgustingly uncooked tenderloin!) So, cut into it and see if it is the color you desire; but don't slice completely until you have let it set for about 10 minutes

I just threw some broccoli in the oven with salt, pepper, and lemon juice on it for a few minutes until tender...

And then placed, in a pan on the cook top, a few thinly sliced potatoes with olive oil and seasoned to taste until they were tender...

VOILA!

**Sarcasm Note- I really wish  this were more difficult because I'd love to have spent more time in the kitchen!