Pug Hollow Cooks a Howliday Feast - The Meat

While a ham or a turkey is more traditional for the meat of a holiday meal, this year the Horde has decided to try something new. It's an experimental recipe, so it may receive a bit of tweaking as we go along. This could also be made with butternut squash, sweet potatoes or turkey in lieu of the pork.

Apple Cider Pork with Apples, Cranberries, and Walnuts

1 pork tenderloin
1 bottle of hard apple cider
1 cup vegetable stock
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 tsp ginger
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp rosemary
1 tsp thyme
1 sweet onion, chopped finely
2 baking apples cut in chunks (Braeburn or Gala for a sweeter apple, Granny Smith, Jonathan or Jonagold for a tart apple)
2 cups chopped walnuts
1 cup fresh cranberries

Mix rosemary, thyme, and ginger with the olive oil. Rub the porkloin with the spiced oil.
Place walnuts, onion, garlic, cranberries and apples into a crockpot. Settle the porkloin on top of the fruit and veggie mix, and add the vegetable stock and bottle of hard cider.
Cook 4-6 hours on high or 8-10 hours on low. Add more stock if needed.

When done, remove the pork loin from crockpot, and slice for serving.
Use the liquid to drizzle over the loin. The onion, apples, walnuts and cranberries can be used to top a fresh green salad or eaten as a topping for the meat.