Cut your own pork loin and save big!

I recently bought a ~10 lb boneless pork loin from Costco. It cost about $21. By cutting up this pork loin myself, I ended up with:

• 13 1" thick loin chops
• 1  rib roast
• 1 sirloin roast

Now, I don't really know how much all of this would have cost at a supermarket, but I suspect it would be way more than $21. Another nice part about it is you can cut the loin chops as thick or as thin as you want them. You can even take a bit of liberty to determine how big or small you want the two roasts to be (or heck, cut the roasts in half and end up with 4!).

Before:

After:

Now all you have to do is wrap the pork in plastic in your desired serving sizes:

Then wrap it in butcher paper (I'm not good at wrapping presents or meat!):

Pop these packages in the freezer and enjoy saving money!

Awesome BLTs!

If you read my post about making bacon in the oven, then the below isn't really new. What is new though is to make a "bacon weave" so you get bacon in each bite of your BLT. What you need is 3 slices of bacon cut in half (for each weave), lettuce, tomato, and some good ole sourdough bread.

The bacon has to cook a little longer if you like it crispy. This is thick cut bacon and I cooked it for 20 minutes. You can tell the single slices are nice and crunchy, but the weaves could cook a little longer.

For the sourdough, I bought a round, cut the slices in half, spread mayonnaise on one side, then browned them at 350 on a skillet for about 10 minutes.

Look how beautiful this is: