Pork with Caramelized Onions and Jowels

Pork with pork, does it get any better?

Bad weather was approaching so, knowing that everyone

would be rushing to the grocery for all the milk, bread and eggs

their carts would hold, I asked my husband to take a trip to 

the store very early, while everyone was on the way to work.

He came back with a cut of meat we never had before,

a pork sirloin that had been run through a tenderizer machine,

 sort of like a cube steak but pork.  He set the oven for 300 degrees F 

and selected an oven proof skillet with a lid.

He cut up some onions and salted them until they felt grainy.

Set them aside for about 30 minutes and let the salt draw out the juices.

Then he cubed some jowl meat and fried it in a mixture of olive oil

and vegetable oil until it was slightly browned but not completely

crispy.  It will be combined with the meat for additional cooking.

Remove jowls and add in the onions, cooking until partially caramelized. 

He removed these and set them aside.

He took the tenderized pork and dipped it in 

Italian bread crumbs, let it sit a bit, 

dipped them in a mixture of egg/milk and back into more crumbs.

He fried them until they were browned and then added the

jowls and onions on top, covered with an oven proof lid

and baked them for 45 minutes.

You could hardly get them out of the skillet in once piece, 

they were so tender that they fell apart upon touch.