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Sweet and Sour Pork 

1 can pineapple chunks, reserve juice.  

3/4 pound  pork cubes **

1T olive oil 

1/2 cup water 

1/3 cup vinegar 

1/4 cup brown sugar 

1T soy sauce 

2T corn starch 

1/2 cup water 

Green and red peppers, cut into cubes 

2 stalk celery 

Hot cooked rice. 

• Drain pineapple, reserving juice 
• Sauté pork cubes in a little olive oil until browned
• Add reserved juice, water, vinegar, brown sugar and soy sauce to skillet. 
• Reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes
• Add vegetables and pineapple  and simmer an additional 2 minutes 
• Make a slurry of cornstarch and water.   Add to skillet and stir until liquids are thickened. 
• Serve over rice.   

Notes: 

Pineapple comes in low sugar syrup. 

Cut top and bottom off of peppers and reserve for garnish or to top a pizza.   Cut the remaining pepper into wide strips and cross cut into inch long pieces. 

You can add fresh green beans instead of some of the peppers. 

Pork cubes is what happens when you butcher a whole pork loin and cut the tapered ends off an cube the meat.  Cut two pork roasts , one off each end, and cut center loin chops from the center of the loin.    5 meals for four people out of a pork loin that should cost less than ten dollars.   

Total cost about 4.00.