Pork shoulder with citrus, maple and pomegranate sauce

Also home made white bread. Not the original dish that we used, but a wonderful leftovers creation that made the best of slightly dry meat.

Not totally certain why it end up a little dry, there was a period in the middle where I took the meat out for a period so I could use the oven for the bread you see here, and there were some problems with accidentally turning the oven off for a period afterwards… I wouldn’t have guessed that this would be the cause, but perhaps it was.

Dry though it was, it was still tasty. The sticky sauce is a good one, and the pomegranate molasses a bit of a triumph. I’d possible not use maple syrup again. Too expensive for just added sweetness and the mapliness doesn’t break through the other flavours.

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