How the Bearded Canadian created another entrée keeper
By The Bearded Canadian
“He (The Bearded Canadian) is a rare culinary talent… and a bit mad. Even I had no idea what was happening, but I knew it was something I wanted to be around… and feast on.” Train recollecting the birth of another pre-mains Canadian classic
So, a FoB “tasting” is an exciting and challenging situation. Each of us on the FoB Squad are charged with the responsibility of creating a dish that either asks serious questions or enchants us with enlightening answers. Or both. And maybe, in the wash-up, we create a dish that becomes a permanent or enduring feature of future FoB feasts.
My thought was to come up with something on the heavier side of light, but charming and sweet. Something that would adequately signpost the path to a truly sumptuous feast.
Here’s what I put together…
I felt I could meet that brief with pork loin, maple syrup, butter, brown sugar, patience, impetuousness and of course, blind ambition and a touch of crazy. I could not have been happier with the result. The result being…
… The Bearded Canadian’s Pork Loin Cinnamon Scroll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, I went ahead and thought to myself:
- I love maple syrup
- Everybody that likes pork, loves pork loin
- I do enjoy some cinnamon, especially on a donut or wait… a scroll!
- Butter is great [Ed. Check out some truly dizzying and perhaps unhinged YouTube clips of Michelin star magnet Marco Pierre White, espousing an enduring love for butter].
- Brown sugar? Well…
So, those are the basic ingredients. Play with them. Use patience – a very hard-to-come-by ingredient – because you don’t want to incinerate the sauce, you want to warm it, heat it gently and coax out the flavours and consistency to form that glaze.
Finally, be bold with your application of cinnamon and of course the maple. Use salt to balance out the sweetness.
Okay, go ahead and create something uniquely you that pays homage to me (stole that line from Train during one of his ego moments) [Ed. Which is more often than you’d thing] [Train: Agreed!]
And as always… Feast on!