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Recipe for DJ's Outdoor Pork Loin with Veggies

White potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, and apples are all cooked in a cast iron skillet outside on a grill with the pork loin. The flavor is citrusy! 1 pork loin, 2 teaspoons sea salt, 1 teaspoon ground black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, 1/2 cup olive oil, 3 cups fresh orange juice, 2 tablespoons sea salt, 1 tablespoon rubbed sage, 2 sweet potatoes quartered, 1 tablespoon paprika, 1 teaspoon ground cumin, 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro, 3 large apples cored and sliced, 1 tablespoon garlic powder, 5 carrots cut into 1-inch chunks, 4 red potatoes quartered, 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1/2 cup lemon juice, 1 large onion quartered, 2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar

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DJ's Outdoor Pork Loin with Veggies This recipe for pork loin includes white potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, and apples cooked outdoors on a grill in a cast iron skillet! It has a citrus flavor!

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Recipe for DJ's Outdoor Pork Loin with Veggies

White potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, and apples are all cooked in a cast iron skillet outside on a grill with the pork loin. The flavor is citrusy!

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DJ's Outdoor Pork Loin with Veggies - Meat and Poultry White potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, and apples are all cooked in a cast iron skillet outside on a grill with the pork loin. The flavor is citrusy!

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I’m exhausted. This weekend was a blast! We did a lot, but in the interest of brevity, I’ll save break these posts up.

Friday night I met すin Shimokita after she got out of work and we began exploring. We found a cool, old yakinikku restaurant, and it smelled too good to pass up. Yakinikku restaurants serve beef, pork, or other assorted goodies that come to the table raw, and you cook them at your own pace Usually places like this have some sort of electric griddle built into the table for cooking, but this particular restaurant brought over a little hibachi-like grill with hot coals inside. I had never experienced Yakinikku like this. The food was amazing as the charcoal infused everything with a delicious taste and aroma! We had pork loin, beef tongue, kalbi beef, and mino, which is a form of tripe. We took our time eating and drinking to our heart’s content. We were quite full by the time we finished and decided we needed to walk off dinner.

We strolled around Shimokita a bit and found another funky little bar down off the main drag. There was a sign in the window advertising Aperol spritzes, so we had to pop in. I had a highball with Yamazaki whiskey, a very expensive whiskey and kind of a waste to drink as a highball, but I figured what the hell. すhad an Aperol, but the thing was it didn’t have any prosecco in it. So it was a little disappointing, but good nonetheless. The bartender/owner had a huge vinyl collection and really nice studio monitors built into the wall above the bar. They looked like Westlakes, but I couldn’t make out if they were or not as it was too dark. He was playing some classic American music and at one point he turned the music down because it was getting a little loud. Mind you, there were only us and one other women in the place at the time, so we said, “no don’t turn it down!” He thanked us and turned it back up and asked if we had any requests. So, appropriately enough, I requested some Aretha and we sipped our drinks paying homage to the Queen of Soul from the other side of the world. The place started filling up with older ladies out on the town grabbing a bite to eat, so we decided to finish our drinks and head out and free up our seats.

We continued through the narrow streets of Shimokita looking for another spot to stop. We passed in front of a tiny little Italian restaurant where two girls were standing out front having a cigarette. We were scoping out the place when they said to us “go to downstairs it’s really good. Wine bar!” We have been craving a good glass of wine for a while now, so we decided to check it out. Like a lot of places in Tokyo, the exterior did not do the interior justice.

Cuore Forte, as it’s called, was tiny. There was an all glass, walk-in wine fridge right as you entered the space and adjacent to that, a gorgeous wooden bar with about 10 seats Opposite that was a small wooden counter with about another 6 or 8 seats. The walls were a combination of exposed and painted brick and natural stone. There were cool tunes coming from the stereo. A handful of people were seated at the end of the bar as soon as we walked in, and the place was so tiny they had to get up to allow us to pass. lol

The owner/bartender (a lot of these in Tokyo) was an Italian wine aficionado who had recently gone to Italy and Sicily. We started talking about wines, and he began showing us pictures from his trip. I knew some of the wines he had and was excited to see them there. I had only ever seen them at my brother’s house and here they were in Tokyo! We had a glass of wine or two and chatted with him for a while. He was a really nice guy and gave us suggestions for other restaurants to check out in Shimokita. The food looked amazing, but since we had just eaten we weren’t too hungry. We decided on something light, so we ordered peaches with fresh pecorino and extra virgin olive oil. It went perfectly with the wine. We’ll definitely visit there again and go back for dinner next time.

We decided it was time to head home, so we walked back to the station. On our way back, however, we spotted another tiny café with some outdoor seating. We popped over there for a night cap to sit outside and enjoy the night. There was a small dj booth on the right near the entrance, and I spotted an acoustic guitar sitting there. We asked the waiter if it was ok for me to play it. He brought it over and said “as long you don’t play it too loud, it’s fine!” We sat outside drinking a beer while I strummed and sang some tunes. People coming in and out were smiling and listening. It was almost like a gig lol The weather was perfect, the sky was clear and it was a perfect ending to a perfect night.