Since Mrs. Dave-Guy is out of town for the weekend, with the kids, she asked my mother (who lives only a mile or so away) if she (my mother) would have me over for a pork chop dinner.
Let me explain: I absolutely love pork chops. But Mrs. Dave-Guy is Jewish. Although she doesn’t keep kosher (in fact, she enjoys ham, bacon, and cheeseburgers), she draws the line at pork. Dunno why. She just does.
Of course, I could hie myself to the store and buy my own damn pork chops, but apparently she doesn’t even want them in the house, hence her request to my mom.
So now, after long deprivation, I’m gonna get a meal of pork chops tonight.
Lisa Simpson: Dad those are all from the same animal.
Homer: Sure some wonderful magical animal…
Sorry couldn’t resist. I feel for you Dave. I love pork chops, but I have/had high blood pressure. Consequently my wife will only buy them rarely. The lenghts I go to … er never mind that. But I do the happy dance too when she will make them.
Damm you Dave! Now I have to go home and fry me up a mess of pork chops! Since I don’t have any better sense than to eat em til I make myself sick, I blame my near future tummy ache on you!
gatopescado, I hear ya on baking big, thick porkchops, but Dave’s got me jonesing for some thin pork chops battered in flour, salt and peppered and fried. He is evil!
Now gatopescado, let’s not be too hasty. Fried pork chops can be a treat until itself, especially if you have some tabasco sauce around the house. Personally I prefer them stuffed with my famous cinnamon apple stuffing, served with a nice crisp brocolli and caulifauer blend with garlic butter…
Salted and peppered and dredged in flour and fried is GOOD…but they MUST be served with butter beans simmered in chicken stock with onions and crushed red pepper, and a skillet of fresh hot cornbread…
Please don’t flame me, but the only way I can make good porkchops is to “Shake and Bake” them. Any other way makes them tough and dried out. Is there any hope for me?
I used to think this too, never made them any other way. Then Mr. Honey started cooking them on the grill. Mmmm they’re tender and extremely juicy. By the way, we always have homemade mac 'n cheese with them. It’s the perfect combination.
Chinawife makes awesome porkchops. In a slightly sweetened soy sauce with carmelized onions. Man, there babies are great. By coincidence, had some tonight already for dinner. I et two.
Ham and bacon are, I suppose, pork products (from the same wonderful, magical animal), but I think the difference is either in the curing or from whence on the piggy it came. Needless to say none of them are kosher. But it is only that meat labeled “pork” that Mrs. Dave-Guy shuns. Maybe it’s just the word itself that creates an aversion. I dunno.
Ukulele Ike might could prolly clear this up. Ike? You there?
