We just had a really good dinner.

[conuly]

Take two pounds of string beans. Soak 'em for at least two hours in the juice of six lemons or limes (or both, whatever). Cook in the juice until soft. Drain it, add two tablespoons of butter (that's a quarter stick), let the butter melt. Eat.

Take about two pounds of porkchops. I like the fat part (a lot), so save it for me. Rub the pork chops with ground pepper and a little salt, then cut up into smallish chunks. Stick the chunks in a marinade of lemon or lime juice (do you sense a theme?), a tiny bit of vinegar, and some olive oil. Add some oregano.

Cut up three peppers, red and green. Also cut up two onions. The pieces should be fairly large. Start them cooking in a skillet with some olive oil. Add a little bit of black pepper, some taragon, and some basil. Add the pork chops. Cover and let it sit on a fairly low heat for a while. Occasionally pop back to take a sniff and stir. Eventually add several spoonfuls of minced garlic, then wait some more.

Eat this with either nice bread or over rice, because I've yet to figure out how to make decent, non-watery gravies.

Comments

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Flour and a little bit of milk is my trick to nice thick gravy. Tapioca powder can also be used, although in my opinion, it alters the flavour a little bit.

The first method makes it niiiice and rich. Just try a little bit of flour and a drop of two of milk at a time until you've got it just the right texture. :D

[conuly]

Yeah, but I can barely take the butter. I can't have milk, I end up holed up in the bathroom for hours.

[conuly]

Besides, milk and meat isn't kosher ;)

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooooh. I did not realise! I am lucky, I grew out of all my milk and dairy related problems.

But in that case, if soy is kosher, soy milk works as a good substitute.

Otherwise, tapioca powder really does do the trick. ^^

[conuly]

*gigglesnorts*

I'm not Jewish. I just said that because of the pork chops being, y'know, treyf.

And soy is kosher.

My mom keeps pushing corn meal. *shrugs* I like just sopping it up with bread, myself.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Euch, corn meal. Corn meal makes it way too grainy for my tastes.

Ahahaha, I have way too many Jewish people on my list. I think it's showing. ^^;;;;

Sopping up with bread is very good. I rather like gravy-soaked bread, but I also rather like thick gravy covered mashed potatoes. What to do, what to do!

[ahsirakh.livejournal.com]

You'll need to add corn starch in order to thicken it. That's what I did for chocolate sauce several years ago in primary-- as a boy, I simply loved cooking.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Why do you eat the beans before you even start the porkchops?

[conuly]

Because I got started very late?

Mostly because I was too lazy to properly delineate which recipe was which.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Flour and a little bit of milk is my trick to nice thick gravy. Tapioca powder can also be used, although in my opinion, it alters the flavour a little bit.

The first method makes it niiiice and rich. Just try a little bit of flour and a drop of two of milk at a time until you've got it just the right texture. :D

[conuly]

Yeah, but I can barely take the butter. I can't have milk, I end up holed up in the bathroom for hours.

[conuly]

Besides, milk and meat isn't kosher ;)

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooooh. I did not realise! I am lucky, I grew out of all my milk and dairy related problems.

But in that case, if soy is kosher, soy milk works as a good substitute.

Otherwise, tapioca powder really does do the trick. ^^

[conuly]

*gigglesnorts*

I'm not Jewish. I just said that because of the pork chops being, y'know, treyf.

And soy is kosher.

My mom keeps pushing corn meal. *shrugs* I like just sopping it up with bread, myself.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Euch, corn meal. Corn meal makes it way too grainy for my tastes.

Ahahaha, I have way too many Jewish people on my list. I think it's showing. ^^;;;;

Sopping up with bread is very good. I rather like gravy-soaked bread, but I also rather like thick gravy covered mashed potatoes. What to do, what to do!

[ahsirakh.livejournal.com]

You'll need to add corn starch in order to thicken it. That's what I did for chocolate sauce several years ago in primary-- as a boy, I simply loved cooking.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Why do you eat the beans before you even start the porkchops?

[conuly]

Because I got started very late?

Mostly because I was too lazy to properly delineate which recipe was which.