That's one of our favorite meals!
When my husband and I first met, he turned his nose up at kraut. I told him he had never had mine. I made it for him the day before we went to pick up our wedding rings. That was 17 years ago - now he asks for it every few weeks. How do you make yours?
Hey Warriormom, how do you make your sourkraut? It usually takes days to make it the old fashioned way. I've never made it, because the traditional way takes three weeks.
LOVED your story about your hubby and the kraut. :) That was cute.
I like to lightly brown my pork loin in bacon grease in a fry pan first. Then I move it to a baking dish and put it in the oven. About a half hour later I put in the sauerkraut which I place one cut up potato and one cut up apple and then let it all cook nice and slow for a few hours. The pork flavor melds with the sauerkraut and the sauerkraut with the bacon flavor melds with the pork and the reunion of both is awesome. When done the sauerkraut is golden and soooo delicious. Not sour. I failed to mention to someone else who asked about this also and that is I add BEER to the kraut in the baking pan. Adds a nice flavor as well.
Then mashed potatoes with lots of butter, applesauce on the side and that's our dinner. Four items. Pork, Sauerkraut, Mashed potatoes and applesauce. I love and have used Kuner canned sauerkraut for years and years and years. Don't know what my mother used all we knew was that it was good and it started off our New Year with the whole family around the big old dining room table in our big old house. :) It sure conjurs up memories of great loving parents and the happy times they made for me, my brother and sisters.
May the New Year bring you and yours all that is good and decent.