Pork and Apples

[bumblepudding]

(This week's much-belated episode of Cooking With jyoti is brought to you by the makers of Strep Throat. Strep Throat: we'll put your life in a blender and press 'puree.' Deal with it.)Ah, autumn. When the apples are ripening on the tree, and the pigs are ripening in the sty. What better season for that salty-sweet favorite, apple pork chops? Grab

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If you don't know how to brown pork...

[drastic]

A former coworker of mine back when I was working graveyard shifts at Evil, Inc., had a story about that. Actually, it wasn't about pork, but about hamburger. It was about browning, though, and furthermore, it was about not being clear on the concept. So it's two-thirds related, roughly.

Story goes, he figured he was going to whip up that gourmet dish of Hamburger Helper(tm). Step one, brown the hamburger to be helped. So, he left it out on the counter. A couple hours, and it still wasn't really brown yet, plus the urge to cook it ("it" being the overall helped dish, you understand) had passed.

The next day it was, of course, well and thoroughly browned. So he used that. And almost died subsequently.

And that, he would explain, is why he won't ever eat Hamburger Helper again.

I still have doubts that it's actually true. But it was a really great story when it's five am and everyone's punchy from their circadian rhythms doing things that no human being's or Yeti's should be forced to.

Re: If you don't know how to brown pork...

[bumblepudding]

*snickers*

In my personal reality, painted around me every instant by a personal, Berkeleyan god, this story shall henceforward be true. Good lord.

I don't think I would ever have done such a thing, but then I would never have considered trying to cook meat, either.