One Pan Pork Tenderloin

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Here is a recipe that’s almost too good to be true, my One Pan Pork Tenderloin.  This recipe has it all from minimal prep work to an almost foolproof result.  Make this for your next weeknight dinner or serve it up to wow your persnickety in-laws, you'll never be disappointed!  This recipe starts off by washing and trimming your veggies, followed by seasoning them.  Once your veggies are all seasoned and ready to go, you can trim up your pork tenderloin.  I like to remove any excess fat, but most importantly, the silverskin needs to be removed.  Silverskin on pork tenderloin is a shiny connective tissue that can result in tough meat if not removed.  To remove the silverskin, slide your knife under the silvery membrane and slice it off, easy peasy!  When your pork is all ready, you can drizzle it with olive oil, season, and pop it right on top of your veggies.  Easy right?  Once your pork is in the oven, you can work on your chive butter, mix your finely chopped chives together with your softened butter and seasonings and yet another super simple step is done.  My recipe is written for the pork to be in the oven for 40 minutes, turning your pan halfway through, however because pork tenderloins can come in all sizes, I recommend checking for temperature around 30 minutes to avoid over cooking.  Once your pork is at a perfect 145 degrees, remove it from the oven and place it on a separate plate to rest.  Dot 2 tablespoons of your butter on top of your pork in teaspoon sized increments, cover with foil, and allow it to rest for 10 minutes.  Take your remaining tablespoon of butter and mix it together with your veggies and return them to the oven while your pork rests.  After 10 minutes, you can plate up your veggies, slice your pork, and of course drizzle any resting juices and melted butter over your sliced pork.  What you’ll have as a result is the most tender and buttery (but not too buttery) pork and vegetables your family will be absolutely wowed over.  Speaking of being wowed, did you know about that time my family was chosen as a test group for a controversial theme park (wow, right?!?!)?  Back when my kids were young, I liked to make some side money taking marketing surveys, it was a nice way to earn some cash to get a coffee here and there.  Usually it was just some small surveys like tasting different flavors of any given product to get a market survey.  One day, I must have hit the jackpot and received a call to make some serious cash along with free hotel and airfare, and all we had to do was spend an afternoon at an up and coming theme park.  We didn’t exactly know what we were getting into, but we decided to yolo it and jet set across the country for an unknown adventure.  The day finally came when we arrived at the theme park only to be met with gates covered in shrouds,which really gave off an eerie feeling. We quickly found out that this was no ordinary theme park, but instead an incredibly high stakes obstacle course for adventure seekers.  Almost immediately after entering, we were confronted with a ropes course that involved swinging axes that hurled at us while flesh eating birds swooped at us high up in the tree tops.  After that, we were plunged into a roaring river with a raft that had a slow leak. We had to dodge catapults that would launch you into a snake pit if you hit them while having to dodge a barrage of poison darts!.  The worst of them all was a boat style theme park ride that would take you through an international showcase of singing dolls, except the dolls would come to life and try to bite you and cut your hair! After the third obstacle, we decided that we had enough adventure for quite a while, so we collected our market survey money and fled to the airport vowing never to return. Later that night we returned exhausted and hungry, it was the perfect night to whip up my One Pan Pork Tenderloin.