I'm a southern gal with a passion for cooking and baking from scratch, the old fashioned way!
Okay, so I know I didn’t manage to snap a very good photo of this dish, but it was one of the BEST meals hubby and I have made in a long time!! So I just had to share it with you. The flavors and techniques are so simple and straightforward, but the results are extraordinary. I hope you’ll give it a try!
There is nothing my husband loves more than a dinner of plain ol’ pinto beans and cornbread. In fact, his family still loves to tease us, saying that they know I was “the one” for him when I sat down on a dusty roadside at a fall festival a few months after we first met, and ate pinto beans and cornbread with him for lunch. I didn’t think much of it at the time – I just thought it was a pretty yummy lunch. 
This recipe captures some of my favorite fall flavors – absolutely delicious! The pork is tender and juicy, sweet with the flavors of the apple juice and cinnamon. The sweet potatoes melt in your mouth. And the apples? Let’s just say it’s like having dessert built-in to your meal!
Here’s another retro recipe: this one comes from my mom’s collection of little scraps of paper with recipes scrawled on them. I’d call it a recipe box full of recipe cards, except that it’s more of a pile of old receipts and other random scraps of paper bearing recipes in her almost indecipherable script stuffed into an old cookbook. My mom and I spent hours one night last week poring over these tid-bits of goodness. This recipe is just one in a treasure-chest of goodies!
