"Porkinator" Marinated Pork Loaded Baked Potatoes

Break out of the dinnertime rut with the ease of Smithfield® Marinated Pork ... which is amazingly  delicious in these "Porkinator" Marinated Pork Loaded Baked Potatoes!  Thank you to Smithfield® Marinated Pork for inspiring their creation and for sponsoring this post.

Do you ever get in a rut with your dinners?  I know I sure do ... making the same thing over, and over, and over again.  While I swear my husband could be perfectly happy eating the same thing every night, I know I certainly could not.

No.  I need to mix it up when it comes to my dinnertime.  But even still ... there are times when I find myself going to the same four or five dishes on an all-to-regular basis.  My meal-planning brain just seems to get stuck on 'repeat!'

Do you want to know what usually happens when I finally reach my breaking point and just can't take it anymore with my regular dinner go-to's?  When I absolutely have  to break free of the 'repeat' dinner cycle?

A quick call to our local pizza shop gets made.

Yeh.  Probably not the best solution.

And that's where Smithfield® Marinated Pork comes to my rescue.

Smithfield® Marinated Pork allows me to easily put variety in my dinners while still creating quick and easy weeknight meals.  And I'm thrilled it's quick an easy weeknight meals that don't involve the pizza shop on my speed dial!

One of the beauties of Smithfield® Marinated Pork is that it takes care of the first step of cooking for you, packing in all the fabulous flavor of a great marinade ... straight out the package.  All that's left to do is to cook it up ... whether that's through a quick toss on the grill, roasting in the oven, or sauteeing on the stove top.  Whichever way you choose, Smithfield® Marinated Pork cooks in mere minutes.

Choose a quick side dish, and you'll be serving up a fabulous break-out-of-the-rut pork dinner in no time.

Now, with these "Porkinator" Marinated Pork Loaded Baked Potatoes, I didn't choose to serve our Smithfield® Marinated Pork with  a side dish.  No ... I chose to serve our pork on  our side dish.  Based on Smithfield®'s Porkinator Sandwich recipe, I took all the fabulous sandwich's filling ingredients and loaded them into a freshly-baked potato.

The result?  Oh man, these "Porkinator" Loaded Baked Potatoes are good.  Like, "I'm-soooo-glad-to-be-rescued-from-my-dinner-rut" good.

Building these loaded potatoes is really quite easy.  Start by loading onto each baked potato some baby spinach leaves, roasted Smithfield® Peppercorn & Garlic Marinated Pork Tenderloin, and onions {that get baked right along with the pork ... so no extra pan to deal with}.

Top with shredded cheddar cheese and crumbled crisp-cooked bacon.

Then place the loaded potatoes back in the hot oven for about 2 or 3 minutes until the cheese gets all melty.

Finally, drizzle the "Porkinator" Loaded Baked Potatoes with a quick-and-easy sauce that completely puts them over the top ... Ranch-Barbecue sauce.  Who knew simply stirring together Ranch dressing and barbecue sauce would be so delicious?  The way the flavors of the Ranch-Barbecue sauce, melty cheese, bacon, and peppercorn-garlic pork come together is nothing short of amazing.

Thanks to the ease of Smithfield® Marinated Pork, "Porkinator" Loaded Baked Potatoes certainly broke me out of my dinnertime rut.  But now that I think about it, they're so tasty this is one dish I may not mind my meal-planning brain getting stuck on 'repeat!'

I'm curious, how would you  create a go-to easy weeknight meal with Smithfield® Marinated Pork?

"Porkinator" Marinated Pork Loaded Baked Potatoes
Source:  Adapted from Smithfield®'s Porkinator Sandwich
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 1 package Smithfield® Peppercorn & Garlic Marinated Pork Tenderloin
• 4 to 6 large baking potatoes, baked
• 1 medium-sized yellow onion, thinly sliced
• 1 T. extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/2 c. Ranch dressing
• 3 T. barbecue sauce
• baby spinach leaves
• about 3/4 c. shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• 4 to 6 slices bacon, cooked crisp & crumbled

Directions

1. Place pork tenderloin on rack in shallow roasting pan. Toss onions with olive oil and a pinch of salt and pepper; place on a piece of aluminum foil and fold foil around onions to form a pouch. Place pork and onions in preheated 425 degree oven. Roast about 30 minutes until internal temperature of pork reaches 150°F. Remove pork from oven and let stand 10 minutes before slicing very thin.  Allow onions to continue to cook while pork rests.
2. While pork and onions bake, mix together Ranch dressing and barbecue sauce; set aside.
3. Once pork is sliced, remove onions from oven. Cut each potato open. Drizzle each with about a tablespoon of barbecue sauce mixture and sprinkle with a bit of cheese; top with a few spinach leaves, pork slices, onions, more cheese, and bacon. Place back in oven for 2 - 3 minutes until cheese melts. Drizzle with a bit more sauce and serve.

Enjoy!

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