Roast Loin of Pork with Roasted Vegetables & Apple Sauce
This recipe came from Roly’s Café and Bakery cookbook. The recipe called for pork loin. I used pork fillet since that was what I had and it worked perfectly. I slit the fillet and pounded it reasonably flat with a rolling pin. 
I then stuffed it with Clonakilty black pudding and tied it up with string. The recipe then shocked me. ‘Pour over the vegetable oil’, i.e., 200ml. I used a fraction of that amount and actually used olive oil. I started the meat in a hot oven and then transferred it to a slow oven until fully cooked. I then prepared the vegetables. The ‘burnt looking’ carrots are actually purple carrots. Yet again the recipe shocked me. ‘Pour over the olive oil’. This time the recipe called for 300ml of olive oil. Again I used far less.
The apple sauce was simply cooking apple, water and sugar. I didn’t bother puréeing as the recipe suggested
I’m now guessing that Roly’s have shares in some oil refinery and weight-watchers!
But the recipe will still go into the ‘definitely repeat’ category. It was gorgeous.
500ml of oil to roast the meat and vegetables for a dinner for 4? What do you think?
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Lily, do they sell the oil on the premises?
There is enough oil in that recipe for a bath…. or is it oil soup?
I wonder was it a typo? You found some errors in the Avoca book, didn’t you? Maybe there are some in ALL cookbooks, and either we shrug them off because we don’t follow recipes blindly, or the dish turns out wrong and we wonder why…
Sorry blog’s been misbehaving badly over last few days. Eldest mouse sorted it for me today
Grannymar, I agree
Cathy, this time I don’t think this was a typo because large amounts of oil were mentioned twice, once for roasting the meat and then for roasting the vegetables.
In the case of Avoca, I would agree with you that some of the things I questioned were plain errors. Case in point is Lakeshore Pork. First edition of the book called for 300g Lakeshore mustard. Most recent edition calls for 2 tablespoons!
I’ll be very interested in the next edition of Avoca salads whenever it comes out as I brought what (in my humble opinion) were errors, to their attention.