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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Recipe: Sweet potato pork chop skillet

Continuing this week's quick supper series, I give you the recipe for a quick & delicious one-skillet meal. To be honest, there was a side dish, creamed mixed vegetables, which required a small pot. No photos. Sorry.*

SWEET POTATO PORK CHOP SKILLET

1 Tbsp shortening

4 center loin chops

1 medium onion, sliced

1 bell pepper, sliced [home grown]

4 medium sweet potatoes, about 1 lb. total, peeled and sliced thin [home grown]

1/4 tsp leaf thyme

1/4 tsp marjoram

salt & pepper, or creole seasoning, to taste

14.5 oz. stewed tomatoes, preferably homemade [home grown]

Melt shortening in skillet over medium heat and fry pork chops lightly on both sides. Top pork chops with sweet potato slices, sliced onion & sliced green pepper. Sprinkle with thyme, marjoram and salt & pepper, or creole seasoning. Pour tomatoes and liquid over all. Cover skillet. Reduce heat to low. Cook one hour or until chops and potatoes are done.

* Sidda, one of Daughter C's two cats, died today-- or late last night. What with conveying the news to C who's already in North Carolina, digging the grave, piling rocks on it, comforting Snaps-- her other cat-- and trying to figure out what in the hell happened, I just didn't feel like taking pics of supper.

Rest in Peace, Sidda. Rocky will miss your swipes at his nose. I will miss your incessant high pitched meowing and your annoying tendency to get between me and my book.  I think Snaps is already missing you.
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2 comments:

  1. suekDecember 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM

    How old was Sidda? Any indication of an other than natural death??

    We had one old cat that died at the ripe old age of 17 or so. It appeared that she had just died in her sleep. Another one - I heard some caterwauling outside on the patio (just outside our bedroom) during the night, but it seemed brief and ended quickly. The next morning, I found cat in the garage and apparently, he bled out from a very small wound in his neck. Looked like the other cat just got a lucky tooth into his jugular. These days, we usually feed only at night - so that the cat(s) come in, then close them in. We have coyotes that traverse the property on their way from somewhere to somewhere on a regular route. Even so, we've lost two that just simply disappeared. Unlikely that coyotes got them in the daytime, so either it was hawks, or they just decided to move to somewhere they liked better.

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  2. MaricaDecember 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM

    We can't figure it out. Sidda must have been 10-15 years old. We do let them out during the day, but they are mostly house cats-- and with our travels, they'd been inside for some time. She'd been loosing weight, though, so we're just assuming it was something natural.

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