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Title: Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Port and Dried Cranberries
Categories: Pork, Restaurant
Yield: 6 Servings

1 c Olive oil
1/4 c Dry vermouth
2 tb Fresh thyme ** or 2
-teaspoons dried thyme
2 ts Ground black pepper
1 ts Salt
1 tb Garlic, minced
6 Pork tenderloins, about 7
-ounces each, trimmed well
A fifth of port wine
1 pt Whipping cream
2 ts Black pepper
1 tb Fresh thyme, **or 1 teaspoon
-dried thyme
1/2 c Dried cranherries

Combine oil, vermouth, thyme, pepper, salt and garlic. Add pork. Marinate
overnight. In a large sauce pan, reduce Port down to 1 cup over high heat.
Add cream, pepper, and 1 tablespoon fresh thyme. Reduce until sauce
thickens, being careful that the cream doesn't overflow. Add cranberries.
Simmer 2-3 minutes. Set aside.

When ready to prepare pork, allow it to reach room for 1 hour before
grilling. Charcoal grill the pork over hot coals, turning on all sides,
about 10 minutes, until juicy and still a little pink. Slice on the bias.
Pour Port sauce over s1ices.

Source: Dining Ethnic Around Puget Sound by Steve & Mary Taylor, 1993;
Poverty Bay Publishing Co, Federal Way, Washington. ISBN# 0-936528-02-8

Typos by Brenda Adams ; mc 6/8/97

Recipe by: Adriatica Restaurant Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #638 by
Badams on Jun 08, 1997