What's Cooking (Take Four)

[Jenise]

We just returned last night from a three week trip so we're bleary and jet-lagged, but I'm happy to be home in the kitchen Tonight, it will just be pan-fried maple-brined pork chops, broccolini (maybe with some ramps that we got from my daughter in New York), and mashed potatoes.

You remind me of a dish I had in a restaurant, have copied at home, and then forgot about. The pork chop wasn't brined in maple but it was placed on mashed potatoes and doused with a sweet-tart sauce of maple syrup-vinegar-soy sauce. Really good, I need to resurrect that!

And welcome back.

We just returned last night from a three week trip so we're bleary and jet-lagged, but I'm happy to be home in the kitchen Tonight, it will just be pan-fried maple-brined pork chops, broccolini (maybe with some ramps that we got from my daughter in New York), and mashed potatoes.

You remind me of a dish I had in a restaurant, have copied at home, and then forgot about. The pork chop wasn't brined in maple but it was placed on mashed potatoes and doused with a sweet-tart sauce of maple syrup-vinegar-soy sauce. Really good, I need to resurrect that!

And welcome back.

I remind you of a pork chop? Cool - I've been compared to much worse!

Thanks!

[Jenise]

Be careful what you wish for! My nickname for my lousy first husband was "pork chop" not to his face but to friends because one night, in anger, I did scream that he was so disagreeable that no one wanted to be around him. That "you could hang a pork chop around your neck and not even the neighbor's dog would come near you." After telling that story to girlfriends later, it's what everyone called him behind his back.

Sometime this weekend I'll be making a Thai curry mainly involving some smallish Indian eggplants. It will probably be a green curry.

-Paul W.

On my menu today is a favorite, Shrimp Scallop soup. Very easy to make with clam juice, white wine, canned tomatoes, herbs . Some sort of salad will be a side. I have broccoli to use up, so I may create a salad with that.