Sometimes it just works out!

Have you ever been in the middle of making something for dinner and you realized you were missing a key ingredient so you substituted something else, but it didn't turn out so good? Well, that didn't happen to me last night. Last night pork sandwiches were on the menu. I had roasted a pork loin on Saturday night with Pappy's seasoning and it turned out very yummy. But, there were left overs. Now, I'm afraid I have to say that I am just not a fan of leftovers, no matter how good the original meal turned out. I have no idea why I'm like this. I just am. Everyone has their things. I also have a problem with feet. I can't stand going bare-footed. Even to bed. I wear socks to bed. In the dead of summer. So, anyhow, I have a few idiosyncrasies. But I digress. So, here I am with leftover pork roast in the fridge and I promised myself a couple months ago that I was going to make a concerted effort to deal constructively with leftovers and not shove them to the back of the fridge and conveniently forget about them for a couple of weeks and then take them out when they're moldy and say, "Oh, rats. Look at that. It's got mold all over it. Can't eat that now!" (this is how I am!) So, I thought, hmmm, I have some homemade bread in the freezer (got that from a sister-in-law at Christmas). I think I'll toast that, then slice the pork, put it on top of the bread, slather gravy over the whole thing and it'll be great. Sounds good, huh? I even made some oven fries to go with it. So, I take the bread out, thaw it and as I'm cutting it I notice, it's cinnamon bread. Cinnamon bread. There's nothing wrong with cinnamon bread.... especially if you're going to toast it for breakfast and eat it with peanut butter. But I just wasn't so sure about cinnamon bread as the foundation for pork sandwiches. But, I had no other bread. So, I just decided to go for it. But I needed to disguise it a little. So, I sliced it, brushed olive oil on it, put salt and pepper and garlic powder on it and then toasted it in the broiler. Then, I put the pork on it and the gravy. And you know what? 4 out of 6 family members thought it was great. It really was. Sure, you could still taste the cinnamon, but I thought it complemented the pork nicely. So, there you go. Sometimes your substitutions end up working out!