Monday, October 16, 2017

Sunday Afternoon, Weather,

Unusual, we had another power outage. Asked the super if he knew anything about it. He said he had heard that a pole was down, 3,000 houses without power but that they estimated the power would be back on by 6 and damn me if it didn't come on at 5.55. In the middle of this we had quite a rain storm so I felt sorry for the guys working on the power. We had decided to have supper early just in case. Basically a picnic of Brie and crackers with grape tomatoes followed by the remains of the Pavlova I made for Saturday. I mad it with strawberries. Not a good idea. The strawberries at this time are huge and quite tough as strawberries go. I will use raspberries instead if and when I make another until summertime fruit is available. Oh well, I have two lots of leftovers for supper on Monday and Tuesday. Can't complain. Of course I was concerned because Poldark is on tonight and I don't want to miss it!! I didn't.

Prior to Poldark I watched the programme The Durrells in Corfu. I used to love Gerald Durrell's books with one exception, My Family and Other Animals which was about Corfu. I felt the same about the TV show tonight.

Monday is bowling of course so please keep your fingers crossed for me and our team. If the weather continues as it has been in the last couple of days I will be wearing a jacket. It is quite chilly now. Bit of a shock after all the lovely weather we have been having.

I notice all the stores lately have been stocked up for Hallowe'en but now I notice Christmas stuff creeping in already.  It gets earlier every year I swear.

I found this recipe through Yummly and like the sound of it.

Korean Style Pork Chops

4 pork chops
1 Tbs olive oil
1/4 cup soy sauce low sodium
2 Tbs honey
4 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp ginger minced
2 tsp sriracha sauce
black pepper to taste

1. Preheat oven to 400 F degrees.

2. In a medium size bowl whisk together the soy sauce, honey, garlic, ginger, sesame oil and sriracha sauce. Pour over pork chops and let marinade for about 20 minutes.

3. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet for medium high heat. Add pork chops, without marinade, and cook for about 5 minutes for the first side, or until it gets a nice brownish color. Flip the pork chops and pour the remaining marinade over them. Cook another 5 min on this side.

4. Place the skillet in the oven to finish cooking them. Roast for about 10 minutes, or until pork chops are completely cooked through.

Servings: 4

Author: Joanna Cismaru
Source: Jo Cooks

Author Notes
If your pork chops are not very thick, mine were about 1 inch in thickness, you might not need to finish cooking them in the oven.


Have a great day
 

18 comments:

  1. Hi Jo - power outages are always a nuisance ...especially as we never know how long they'll last. The Pavlova ...looks tasty though -cheers Hilary

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    1. They sure are Hilary. Couldn't have a warm cup of coffee, for me that's serious!! It was pretty tasty.

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  2. We got drenched on Saturday. Over three inches of rain here. And then the wind took over yesterday. Lots of folks still without power. I see you are still making pavlovas.

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    1. That's a lot of rain. No wonder you lost your blooms. Actually hadn't made one in a couple of weeks or so although I did have the base on hand. We both enjoy them.

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  3. They were scary accurate about when the power would return.
    Hope you kick it in bowling today!

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    1. Certainly surprisingly accurate, not sure about scary. Apparently in the area a lot of houses got damaged and some still don't have power.

      I did, I did.

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  4. That's unfortunate about the power. I see your comment above, and I'd probably go crazy if I couldn't warm myself up a nice cup of coffee. That picnic sounds like a decent way to spend the time, though.

    I love Korean food. I also love pork chops. Never thought to tie those two together. Will definitely be trying this recipe.

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    1. It was and I did Bryan. However, friend at bowling said she had put a dish in the oven to cook just as the power went out. Now that would really have teed me off.

      They do sound good don't they?

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  5. Yummy to the Pavlova. I hope it tasted as good as it looks. Hope you had a great day bowling. Luckily we didn't lose power like many did yesterday with the nasty windstorm

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    1. It tasted good, but the berries were a bit tough for berries. You were lucky Birgit.

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  6. Fingers crossed for bowling!!

    I have pork chops in the freezer; I'll have to try this recipe.

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    1. Thanks Liz, you did good.

      I hope you do try it. Think I might do it this weekend.

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  7. Raspberries sound like an excellent choice, for next go.

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    1. If I can get the base Ivy, didn't see any last week.

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  8. After Sunday's 80 degree weather we only got to the 50'a today and supposed to go down to the 40's tonight. Got the air conditioners out of the windows today, fighting stink bugs the entire time, but if we'd waited, they'd have won the battle! Awful critters!
    Power outages are so disruptive, so glad they achieved their goal!

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    1. 80 degrees. We won't be seeing anything like that again for a long while I think Yolanda. We leave our A/C where it is. Yuk stink bugs. Disruptive is a good word for them.

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  9. I've been getting back into pork lately. Glad you got to see Poldark. It's really intense this season.

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    1. I love pork Susan. I so wish to see something nasty to George Warleggan

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