Thick pork chops, cast iron skillet, high heat, a splash of oil, 3-4 minutes per side (no touching while searing). Season to taste. Perfection. The same goes for thick chicken breasts or thighs.
Oh, me, too, for sure. It's just that we had purchased 1/4 beef....and this is the last of the steaks.
The steak looks good. The salad? Meh. A little to be desired. I’m more of a romaine and arugula fan than iceberg.
It's easy to overcook chicken breast. I like mine pink and juicy. Pork chops have lost their flavor and so we don't buy them. I hear that brining them makes them juicy but I can't see where you can stick the flavor back in.
I made some Japanese Milk Bread last night for the first time. Recipe from ATK: Bread Illustrated. It came out great. My wife said it's my best loaf of bread yet. It was super easy and very delicious, lots of butter used though, which is probably why it was so good.
It's another good one. It got my attention because Japanese milk bread has been sort of internet famous for a little while. It comes out like a really really good sandwich bread. The recipe was really easy but it had a technique, of making a flour water paste to mix in, that I hadn't tried before. I think that helps make it a little extra spongy. I thought I had messed up on the last mixing step of adding butter, because the dough gets really gooey till the butter mixes in and even then it's pretty sticky. A little extra four to work with helped out a lot
Making New York cheesecake, with raspberry sauce, for a client. His mother's birthday. Cake in oven. Kitchen looked like disaster area but tidied up. Waiting to hear if he wants Chambord in raspberry sauce. If there is an easy way to seed two bags of raspberries no one has told me. Just sheer muscle power forcing puree through fine strainer.
My God that's so perfect that it can only be outdone by either cherries jubilee or blackberry cobbler with a few sour berries mixed in to give that perfect taste of sweet and all topped off with some really really cold quality vanilla ice cream.
