A Recipe For MyFavorite Sunday Meal

Today, we enjoyed my favorite Sunday meal...pork loin, prepared in a slow-cooker, along with carrots and onions, and served with mashed potatoes and gravy. For diet-friendly gravy, we thicken canned chicken broth with a corn starch and water mixture, rather than using the fatty drippings from the pork roast.

What makes the pork so delicious is adding seasoning salt and an envelope of Golden Onion Soup mix to the meat and vegetables, along with some water for moisture (a half cup to a cup, depending on the size of the pork loin and the size of your slow-cooker. A little more water can be added if the cooker seems to be going dry).

Golden Onion Soup mix has a chicken base that helps tenderize and bring out the flavor of the pork. It works great in beef stew, too. And we love it (with seasoning salt) sprinkled over packaged frozen California Blend - a mix of cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots - and steamed with a little water in the microwave. We use a Corning Ware dish with a lid for this.

We make our own seasoning salt from a recipe we got many years ago from our state's Cooperative Extension Service. We think it has a much better flavor than purchased blends. Here's the recipe:

GOURMET SALT

1 and 1/2 cups table salt or sea salt
2 teaspoons finely crushed thyme leaves
2 teaspoons garlic salt
3 teaspoons paprika
2 teaspoons curry powder
4 teaspoons dry mustard
1 teaspoon onion powder.

Mix ingredients together, and store in a jar.