It’s Sweater Weather! And along comes this 30-minute recipe for Pork Chops with Apples and Bacon This cozy, 30-minute one-pan recipe is the kind of dinner that’ll make you feel like you’ve mastered the art of seasonal comfort cooking with almost no effort (because honestly,…
WE LOVE FIGS! FIG SEASON IS SHORT! HERE ARE 5 WAYS TO SERVE FIGS Figs, as a fruit, are such a delight! They come from the Ficus tree, part of the mulberry family. They’re soft, sweet, and full of tiny, crunchy seeds that make them…
A NEW-TO-US TECHNIQUE YIELDS PERFECT PORK CHOPS IN MINUTES Turn, turn, turn to cook perfect pork chops in minutes…then enhance them with a simple pan sauce of sage, garlic, and butter poured over the finished chop. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been cooking, you…
In this Sheet Pan Dinner, Bone-In Rib Pork Chops are crisp on the outside and tender inside. Pairing Cheddar Cheese and Panko breadcrumbs for the crust, this recipe can take on any vegetable you like. We went for Gala Apples and for color and flavor,…
We wait all year for Figs to appear. Then we celebrated their brief season with two superb dishes. To us, few things are as delicious as fresh figs, straight from someone’s garden. First, there’s their wonderful scent. What awaits inside these little purple tear drops…
Summer and Salad Days are on the way…but in the meantime. Confession time: We’d been looking at a lot of very beige posts on Chewing The Fat. So when this glorious-looking salad appeared in Food and Wine, we had to make it. It’s from a…
In a country mad for soup, Calo Verde will tell you why. And there’s a Bifana sandwich to go along with it. Here’s a soup and sandwich combination that’s easy and satisfying. Soup in Portugal is a very big deal. It plays a large part…
From Food & Wine’s ” Chef’s Easy Weeknight Dinners” Jonathan Waxman’s Soy and Ginger Pork Chops Andrew and I often get asked whether we use our hundreds of cookbooks. The truth is, we read cookbooks the way other people read novels. Cover to cover. But…
There are now over 42,000 Instagram Posts hashtagged #SheetPanDinner And after I publish this, there will be one more. It’s a riff on one of the 20 recipes the New York Times put together last month. Melissa Clark had roasted thick bone-in pork chops covered…
I am a sucker for “What to Cook This Week” from the New York Times. Here’s one reason why. Very often this email from the NYTimes is the work of Sam Sifton. Sifton is billed as the founding editor of NYT Cooking. And Sam is…
Make these glorious Pork Chops and surprising salad once…and it won’t be the last time. Guaranteed. What a wonderful surprise this recipe is! Gorgeous, big, bone-in Pork Chops are butter-basted and emerge from a cast-iron skillet looking like Porterhouse steaks. They’re accompanied by a crisp…
A new cookbook celebrates the contribution of African-American Chefs to America’s Culinary heritage. Toni Tipton-Martin has collected almost 400 cookbooks with a singular focus. Every one of them was written by or for African-American cooks. When she had collected over 150 of these cookbooks, she…
On Chewing The Fat, the recipes really do come from everywhere. However in this case, it came from closer to home–our own kitchen. I had an intense desire for a Pork Chop and not one of those boneless half inch deals swathed in plastic wrap. …
If you follow me on Instagram (@montemathews) you know that I have been in Scandinavia all last week. I boarded Viking Star in Germany and sailed to Denmark and Norway. As soon as I can cook them, I’ll be sharing some wonderful discoveries on my…
PONANT EXPLORES THE GLOBE WITH A DECIDEDLY FRENCH ACCENT.
