ROAST LOIN OF PORK WITH ROSEMARY AND GARLIC

Ingredients.......2 kg loin of pork, with the bones intact and scraped clean as for a rack of lamb, ask your butcher to do this, 1 sprig of rosemary, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 tbs of of fresh chopped herbs. Please ask your butcher to also score the skin of the pork in narrow strips. Prheat your oven to 220 deg C. Lightly spray a roasting pan. So let's begin, fibnely chop the rosemary sprig and garlic cloves, season with cracked black pepper and chopped mixed herbs. Make a few slits on the underside of the pork and push the herb and garlic mixture into the slits to season the pork well. Fially rub the skin of the pork liberally with salt and place the pork in the roasting pan. Roast the pork in the preheated oven for 25 minutes or till the skin is crisp and crackles. Then reduce the temperature to 180 deg C and continue to roast the pork, about 90 minutes. Carve the pork into thick chops to serve, this goes really well with braised red cabbage with apples or vegetables of your choice and a serve of salad greens.