Tag: Brown & Braise

Simmered Pork and Eggplant

Simmered Pork and Eggplant

I may have mentioned, at some point, that our CSA farm specializes in growing many varieties of eggplant.

Pork with Sour Cherries

Pork with Sour Cherries

“Life is just a bowl of cherries” sang Ethel Merman in 1931… I am amused, though, to see that the song does not refer to a basic fact of both life and cherries – there is both sweet and sour. And if you know how, 

Ginger Orange Chicken

Ginger Orange Chicken

We eat a lot of chicken, especially thighs. They’re readily available, they’re inexpensive, they’re easy to eat (with just one bone,) and they make good leftovers. And they are very easy to cook.

Beef Stew with Sorghum

Beef Stew with Sorghum

Most of the effort in switching away from gluten, in our culture, goes into replacing wheat. As I said last summer when I wrote about it, wheat has been the staff of life in Western Civilization for millennia…  We “break bread” when we eat together, 

Orange Spiced Pork Chops

Orange Spiced Pork Chops

Orange Spiced Pork Chops is another recipe I learned from my mother when I started to cook, but have varied enough over the years that it is now a new recipe. The original was sweeter, and a little blander, and she used a jar of