Ingredients
1 Pork loin, any size that fits your family
1 package of thick sliced bacon (flavored like maple optional)
1 Dry rub (your choice of rub or make your own)
1 package of goat cheese
1 jar of sun dried tomatoes
1/4 diced onion, yellow or sweet
Directions:
Cut loin down the middle and pound out flat between two pieces of plastic wrap until approx 1/4 inch thick.
Sprinkle with salt, pepper
Spread goat cheese evenly across the surface near the middle
Add sun dried tomatoes and diced onion.
roll pork loin into a cylinder, seam side up. set aside carefully,
place bacon on plastic wrap, overlapping each piece slightly to form a mat that is as long as your loin.
Place loin in the middle of the bacon.
Use the plastic wrap to pull up one side, then the other of the bacon to encircle the loin.
Sprinkle with dry rub
Roll over, seam side down onto a baking pan or rack/pan combo depending on how you are going to cook it.
Sprinkle dry rub over the top as well
For BBQ, roast on a rack over a pan at approx 300 for 1 hour, then 400 for 20 to 25 mins to crisp bacon. Roast until internal temperature is 145 degrees.
For oven, roast at 300 for one hour and then 400 until bacon is crisp. Roast to internal temperature of 145.
Remove and let rest for approx 15 mins.
Slice and Serve
Options: Use any dry rub you like and any flavor bacon. You can also change your stuffings. Use salsa instead of tomatoes, ricotta instead of goat cheese. Add roasted garlic and pine nuts to the inside.
The story: So the kids got me a new Pit Boss BBQ/smoker after my last plain jane bbq stopped working several months ago. Of course the weather hasn’t always been cooperating this time of year, but they really wanted me to try the smoker. It’s been a bit of a learning curve as I have never had one before. I am loving the ability to experiment now with many different flavors of smoke and types of meat. The best part is that with the current quarantine in effect, the cheapest, toughest meats that are usually left in the grocery stores are actually the ones perfect for smoking and cooking low and slow. Don’t be afraid to buy what other folks have left behind. they don’t know what they are missing!