Recipe post!
Feb. 1st, 2011 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuseI didn't take photos of this or time it, but I was really pleased with how the meal I made last night turned out, so imma record it here in the hopes that I repeat it later.
Self-Saucing Pork Chops
Pork loin chops
Honey
Red wine vinegar
1 apple, grated
3 regular onions peeled and quartered, or a bunch of wee pickling onions, peeled
Castor sugar
50g butter
Stock (optional)
Stuff to serve it with (I HIGHLY recommend garlic mashed potatoes. Plus a salad to fake healthy.)
1. Marinade pork chops in a little red wine vinegar (maybe a tablespoon), a drizzle of honey, and the grated apple.
2. Meanwhile simmer the onions in lightly salted water for ten minutes. Drain the onions, reserving the water if you're not going to use stock.
3. Melt the butter in a large saucepan. Add the onions and turn to coat. Sprinkle over around a tablespoon of castor sugar and add the pork chops, along with the honey and apple. Cover with stock or the onion water (around a cup, a cup and a half), cover the pork and onions with baking paper, and simmer until the liquid is almost all gone (depending on how thick your pork is, you may need to remove it at some stage and then add the onions when the liquid is very reduced) - this should take around 20 minutes, i.e. enough time to boil and mash some potatoes.
4. Serve on top of potatoes all drizzly and delicious. They're called self-saucing potatoes because, duh! They come with built-in apple sauce. :P
Relevant to everyone's interests, today's/yesterday's XKCD was laughable in kind of the opposite way to the way it usually makes me laugh. I mean, really?
ALSO: I wrote fic! It is Nikita fic! Only one of you is in that fandom and she beta-read it for me (<3) ... but hey. Outrunning the Bear is Jaden-centric and rated, IDK, PG for swears. Spoilers through 1x09.
Up next: catch up on Nikita and White Collar. Mmmm television.
Self-Saucing Pork Chops
Pork loin chops
Honey
Red wine vinegar
1 apple, grated
3 regular onions peeled and quartered, or a bunch of wee pickling onions, peeled
Castor sugar
50g butter
Stock (optional)
Stuff to serve it with (I HIGHLY recommend garlic mashed potatoes. Plus a salad to fake healthy.)
1. Marinade pork chops in a little red wine vinegar (maybe a tablespoon), a drizzle of honey, and the grated apple.
2. Meanwhile simmer the onions in lightly salted water for ten minutes. Drain the onions, reserving the water if you're not going to use stock.
3. Melt the butter in a large saucepan. Add the onions and turn to coat. Sprinkle over around a tablespoon of castor sugar and add the pork chops, along with the honey and apple. Cover with stock or the onion water (around a cup, a cup and a half), cover the pork and onions with baking paper, and simmer until the liquid is almost all gone (depending on how thick your pork is, you may need to remove it at some stage and then add the onions when the liquid is very reduced) - this should take around 20 minutes, i.e. enough time to boil and mash some potatoes.
4. Serve on top of potatoes all drizzly and delicious. They're called self-saucing potatoes because, duh! They come with built-in apple sauce. :P
Relevant to everyone's interests, today's/yesterday's XKCD was laughable in kind of the opposite way to the way it usually makes me laugh. I mean, really?
ALSO: I wrote fic! It is Nikita fic! Only one of you is in that fandom and she beta-read it for me (<3) ... but hey. Outrunning the Bear is Jaden-centric and rated, IDK, PG for swears. Spoilers through 1x09.
Up next: catch up on Nikita and White Collar. Mmmm television.
