Sweet and Sour Pork Tenderloin

I had a busy night yesterday!  I needed dinner that was fast and easy.  I didn't have time to sit at the stove and cook a meal.  I found a small pork tenderloin on sale at the grocery store, and I knew it would bake pretty quickly.  I pulled some veggies from the fridge and made a quick Sweet and Sour sauce to pour over it.  To make it a complete meal, I cooked a blend of brown and wild rice with a little chicken broth.  Here's the recipe if you want to give it a try!

Sweet and Sour Pork Tenderloin

-Pork Tenderloin sized to feed your family
-1 Green Pepper sliced
-1 Onion halved and sliced
-Carrots sliced
-Mushrooms halved
-Salt and Pepper to taste

Sauce ingredients
-1 cup of pineapple juice
-1/4 cup water
-2 Tbsp vinegar (white or rice wine)
-1/4 cup tomato paste
-1 Tbsp honey
-2 Tbsp soy sauce (low sodium)


Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.  Place pork tenderloin in a shallow baking dish.  Sprinkle with Salt and Pepper.  Add vegetables around the pork.  In a small bowl, combine the sauce ingredients.  Pour over the pork and vegetables.  Bake for 30 minutes, or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees.

Apple Cider Vinegar?

I've been doing some extensive research about drinking raw Apple Cider Vinegar each day.  I've learned some very interesting things!  The claims are all over the place; they range from ending your flu quickly to helping you to lose weight.  I've decided to experiment with some recipes that I've found.  I'm going to give each recipe two to three days before switching to another.  I plan to drink it every day for a month.  Each week, I will give an update as to the recipes I tried and my thoughts on each one.  I will make sure to link you to the sites where I found the recipes, if you want to try them yourself.

Let's start today with some the the potential health benefits of drink unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar.  There was a study in Japan that actually linked drinking it daily for 12 weeks and a minor amount of weight loss.  It seems that it is surely not a quick fix, but might help with the breakdown of fats in an already healthy diet.

There are links established between Apple Cider Vinegar and it's anti-glycemic properties.  Researches at Arizona State University have found that it blocks the absorption of some starch.  It won't be a quick fix if you already have diabetes, but it might help to regulate blood sugar levels in small amounts.  It seems that it might be beneficial to drink it with a starchy meal.  Others suggest to drink it before bed to reduce your sugars overnight while fasting.

It seems that it isn't going to cure cancer, lower your cholesterol or make you lose a ton of weight fast, but it does seem that there are benefits that I want to explore!  I am starting Monday on my month of Apple Cider Vinegar.  I will do my pretty unscientific study to see what happens!