looking at my favorite food blogs, i’m starting to realize that half (ok, maybe a third) of having a successful food blog is having a really fabulous variety of dishware and silverware. porcelain, stoneware, metal, glass, different colors and shapes, and the like. i have […]
after having swallowed too many bites of those awful carmel ice cream cakes, my sister and i began making our grandmother’s birthday cake every year. for the past four years or so, we’ve made variations on the same cake for her birthday, which falls on […]
another adventure in cooking meat! that is, meat that requires actual attention and possibly skill (up for debate). on the menu: sauteed pork chops with sour cherry sauce, boiled corn, and the oat-granola pie that just won the pillsbury bakeoff contest (curiosity…).
unfortunately, nora and i were too full by the time we were finished with the pork chops and corn to actually eat the pie, which involves butter, sugar, corn syrup, crushed granola bars, and oats. weird, eh? that’s what i thought, too. i’ll have some when i go home after work today…
the pork chops were a hit! well, at least, with me and nora. mary didn’t like the sauce, i think – which had a savory-sweet taste to it. i liked the addition of the cinnamon, which at first smell was too much, but mellowed out as you added the stock and simmered it for a while. i was surprised that the flour didn’t clump; in my experience it always does. perhaps the clumps are all hiding at the bottom of the pan… anyway, back to the sauce. lots of depth, and i do believe this is due to more chicken stock than the recipe called for (what is the logic of selling stock in 2-cup cans, if you only ever need 1 cup???) and deglazing the chop pan into the sauce. we also used onions instead of shallots, white wine instead of red, and omitted the lime juice and cornstarch (this was a recipe from epicurious) and it came out great. (more…)