Fat for flavor and health!
The flat out wrong advice from our elite government overlords (also called ‘experts’) has ruined many lives and dinners!
Studies show people eating low fat products always gain weight.
Pork chop:
-- preheat oven to 400 degF
-- for convenience in cleanup, line a small pan with aluminum foil
-- coat it with a film of sunflower oil
-- lay the inch-thick or a little thicker chop on the foil
-- spread a little oil over the topside of it
-- open a package of Lipton's dry onion soup
-- using a small spoon, cover the entire top of the chop with the dry soup mix, about an eighth of an inch
-- Roast in the oven for 25 minutes
Sweet potato/yam:
-- while the chop is roasting, water-scrub a nice yam clean all over
-- stab the skin of the yam all over with the tines of a dinner fork to let out steam
-- wrap the yam with one sheet of paper towel
-- wet the paper towel thoroughly
-- place the assembled unit on a dinner plate and into the microwave oven
-- nuke it on high for 12-15 minutes depending on size
Prepare:
-- take out the sweet potato/yam and remove the paper towel
-- slit the yam lengthwise and put butter in the slot
-- then slit the yam crosswise every inch or so, leaving the backside skin whole
-- sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon on the buttered exposed surfaces
-- pull the chop out of the oven at 25 minutes
-- using a spatula, lift the whole chop off the foil (it will not stick to the pre-oiled foil) and onto the hot plate next to the yam
Eating: Use a fork, sharp knife (for the chop) and teaspoon (for the yam)
-- hold the yam skin down to the plate and scrape your spoonfuls of yam from the skin using the spoon
-- the yam meat will come away from the skin cleanly.
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This takes a lot longer to write than to just do, There is no waste of time and reading the recipe once you get the idea in mind.
This may not be Parisian, but it is very quick and good for only one or two persons. It is real, real good, juicy, and so easy to clean up!
(Even better if you cut a slice of bacon to cover the chop before sprinkling on the dry soup)
Get big pork STEAKS instead. Chops are dry-lean to begin with. Good “Y bone steaks” are nice and marbled, tasty and much more filling.