I've submitted my recipe for week 2 of the Pacific Food Everyday Chef Challenge. The secret ingredients for this challenge were spinach and a Pacific Food Creamy Soup. I had to think long and hard about this one. I didn't want to just put spinach in the soup and call it a recipe. I wanted to try something a little more challenging and different.
I decided on
Spinach Pesto Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Roasted Butternut Squash Risotto!
It was a complex recipe but so yummy! When I saw the challenge ingredients the creamy butternut squash soup caught my eye. What better paring than roasted butternut squash with it’s creamy soup counterpart. I have always loved cooking common dishes in a new way so adding these ingredients to a risotto seemed the perfect complement to my pork tenderloin. I am always looking for cheaper ingredients to use in more expensive dishes, so creating a pesto out of spinach and walnuts does just that, and it tastes so good stuffed in an oven roasted tenderloin.
The pictures doesn't do it full justice. I learned through this experience that pork is hard to photograph. But who cares about the picture, the food it what counts!
So head on over to the
Pacific Food's Everyday Chef Challenge
and please vote for my recipe. I need 25 to make it to the final round. You can vote once every 24 hours and it's easy-peasy, just a click! And if you want to help run my votes up past 25 that would make me feel loved...even if I really don't need them all...does that make me shallow?? Don't answer that.
If you would like to try this recipe yourself, you can click on my submission and print it off! Thanks so much for your vote!
