Thyme-Dusted Pork Medallions with Pear-Rutabaga Mash

Pork tenderloin is a delicious, easy weeknight dinner, and it cooks up even faster when cut into pork medallions. Everyone knows that pork, sweet potatoes, and apples are great together, but did you know that Porky loves to be partnered up with rutabaga and pear just as much? Aside from being fun to say, old-fashioned rutabaga is kind of like a squash, kind of like a turnip, and every bit as delicious as either. The saucy yellow-orange mash and thyme-scented meat is, to borrow a phrase, “wh