Pork Chops Royale, Revisited

A few weeks ago I gave a family friend’s recipe a try.  It turned out so-so and the hardest part about it was knowing it wasn’t going to be very good while I was cooking.  The only positive was all the ideas I thought of to improve it the next time.  Unfortunately when it was time to go round 2 (meaning if we didn’t use the pork we’d be throwing precious dollars in the trash), I was sick.  Like really sick   So WF valiantly stepped in to attempt the recipe.  In his own words this recipe is “better, but still not perfected”.

Downside to WF cooking: pictures are scarce.  I had to keep reminding him in between sniffles and coughs.

Pork Chops Royale, Revisited – as prepared by WF

Serves 2

Stuff you need:

• 2 pork chops, 1 inch thick
• juice of one lemon
• 4 Tbsp. BBQ sauce
• 2 Tbsp. light brown sugar
• 1/2 small onion, sliced
• 1 small yellow pepper, sliced

What to do with that stuff:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Mix lemon juice, BBQ sauce, and brown sugar.
3. Place chops in baking dish with lid (or cover tightly with aluminum foil).
4. Baste pork chops liberally.
5. Layer onion and pepper with chops.
6. Bake, covered, for 45 minutes, basting liberally every 15 minutes.

Source: [FF]

Tuesdays with Reggie

Reggie, Editor-in-Chief

Last night Reggie decided to be a very paws-on Editor-In-Chief.  He was on me about my deadline and decided the best way to make me finish was to watch my every move.  He’s relentless but I think we put out a pretty good product so I guess I should be thanking him.

And here’s Reggie at our first planning meeting (before we moved to SC).  As you can see, his desk is very messy, but don’t let that fool you.  Reggie is one tough cat.  He always get’s the job done.