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Twitter Party and Giveaway!

by porktastic on March 18, 2011

Remember that New Year’s Resolution you made all those months ago?

Yeah, me neither.

Well, the National Pork Board is hosting a Twitter party to discuss healthy habits and rejuvenate that New Year’s Resolution to be more healthy this year.  Plus, one grand prize winner will receive a “New Year, New Recipes” prize pack.  Also, there will be additional prizes for participants who answer trivia questions!  I’m excited to see what the prizes will be! 

When: March 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Where: Twitter.  Just friend @AllAboutPork and @ResourcefulMom (Amy Lupold Bair is the host!)

How: To win prizes just respond to a tweet by @ResourcefulMom using the hashtag #TenderloinTues

For more details just visit here!

They also have some fabulous healthy recipes that give you options beyond a plain salad. 

Tex Mex Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients:
12 ounces lean ground pork, 96% lean
1/2 cup water
6 tablespoons couscous
4 large bell peppers, red, orange, or yellow, or a combination
3/4 cup salsa, plus more for serving (optional)
1 cup frozen corn, thawed
2 teaspoons chili powder
Salt and black pepper
1/4 cup shredded reduced-fat Cheddar cheese, Monterey jack, or Mexican blend cheese

Cooking Directions:
Preheat oven to 500 degrees F.
In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, bring water to a boil. Stir in couscous, cover, remove from heat, and set aside for at least 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook pork, stirring occasionally and breaking it up, until no longer pink, about 4 minutes.
Also while couscous is softening, remove tops from peppers and scrape out seeds. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine couscous, pork, salsa, corn, and chili powder. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Fill peppers with pork mixture. Arrange peppers in a shallow baking pan and bake for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle cheese on top and continue baking until peppers are tender and stuffing is heated through, about 5 minutes.
Serve peppers with additional salsa on the side if you like. 
 
Serves 4
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The Power of the Pork Tenderloin

by porktastic on January 14, 2010

Good news: it’s been two weeks and the Porktastic community is still committed to its “Eat More Pork” diet plan. This may not seem like long, but we’re betting most of you have already abandoned some of your New Year’s resolutions. Since the year is still young, we’re willing to share ours and the let you in on the force that has us hog-tied: the Power of the Pork Tenderloin.

Pork Tenderloin has the power to make eating healthy – gasp – exciting. Salad may be traditional diet food, but by adding a few slices of tenderloin, boring lunches went from lifeless to lively. And we actually felt full and satisfied afterwards, so we didn’t have to dig around in our desk for a smashed candy bar left over from Halloween.

Pork Tenderloin has the power to bring five star dining to your kitchen table. You don’t need reservations or a special occasion to live high on the hog. It’s so quick and easy to make something snazzy like Pork Mignon any day of the week that your husband may think he forgot something important – like your anniversary (we won’t tell if you want to take advantage of his guilt).

Pork Tenderloin has the power to make family meals affordable. We love pork tenderloin because you don’t need the budget of a small country to afford this prime cut of pork. We found that lots of tenderloins come two to a package, which feeds about six people – talk about a pleasant surprise. Porktastic people are thrifty people so money saving doesn’t stop there. We’re stocking up on pork tenderloin now, while it’s on sale, and freezing it (for up to six months) so we can bask in the Power of the Pork Tenderloin all year long. We’re just hoping our resolution lasts as long as the pork.

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