Asking for Help
Don't mean to be a pest but I have a question. I've been trying to cull
some of the recipes I've jotted down on both facebook and my blog (pgorman.com)
over the past several years. On the blog it is not a problem, just time
consuming--and if I could afford an assistant I'd freaking hire one to
do it for me--but on FB, when I go to my home thing, I only get to see
about the last 10 entries I've posted and the responses people have made
to them. There is no second page, no "next page" thing. I must be doing
something wrong, but then that's a given, given that I cannot turn on
the television with all the damned buttons on all the darned receivers I
have to memorize. So can you guys help?
I really hate to go back
through all the nonsense, but some of those meals sounded really tasty
when I described making them. And even though they all use the same
three ingredients over an over and over again, you got to think of it
like playing the blues: You only need the three chords, slight
variations to minors, ninths, sevenths and so forth, and suddenly you
have a million different blues songs, even though they share the same
small playing field.
(When I write this stuff, sometimes I wonder
who's really writing it because I am not nearly clever enough to have
this shit just come popping out. Yesterday, for instance, when I wrote
about Jesus and the loaves and fishes and him suddenly realizing he'd
forgotten to hire any vendors, well, man, I was laughing at that. Like,
who the heck wrote that? It's perfect, but way more
clever/smart/intuitive phrasing than I would ever be capable of writing.
Whoever you are, keep it up. I'm your huckleberry conduit, baby. (after
Val Kilmer in that cowboy movie).
Long as I'm mentioning food,
today I bought two large center cut, bone-in pork chops (grass fed; no
pens; still killed) and I'm gonna cut them open from the fat end down to
the bone, and then stuff them with braised spinach, diced shallots, and
garlic, then add fresh mozzarella and a bit of good blue cheese. I'll
seal those babies with a couple of toothpicks, then sear them in a bit
of olive oil and garlic. I'll tamp them dry, then flower, egg, and bread
them (good bread crumbs I'll infuse with a bit of spice), then sear
them again. Then they will go into the oven, pre set to about 325 for
maybe 25 minutes. Then I'll turn the oven up to 400 for maybe 10 minutes
until that cheese is oozing out all over the place. I'll pull them,
take the pan juice and mix in a bit of floue and butter roux, add ( I
know, heretic! But I don't have any real brown sauce here!!!!!) a
package of McCormick pork gravy and some organic vegetable stock--along
with one anjour pear that's sort of rotting, and the juice from two
really fresh large naval oranges and make a gravy. Keep it light, not
thick and heavy, just a sauce to tie things together like a good throw
rug in an interesting room to make things shine.
I'ma gonna have
that with a nice romaine and carrot (both killed at my behest, sorry
guys!!!!!) with my variation of the most fantastic vinagrette in the
world, taught to me by Christie Engel, who used to work (with her
husband) for the Big Apple Circus, one of the best circuses in the
world!!!. It's just olive oil, garlic, shallots, salt, pepper, and
balsamic vinegar. But LOTS of balsamic vinegar. Normally they tell you 3
oil to one vinegar. This is 2 vinegar to one oil and man, that thing
bites your tongue all the way to the brown places in the back near your
throat, and then soars up into the back of your head. I am not kidding.
Anyway, I'd love some help here. Thanks. And I hope you area all
eating well tonight and every night and that when you have extra you
invite people who have less to share it with you. Bon appetit!
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