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I've been enjoying pork chops lately. I never grew up on them, but I decided to finally try them. They are awesome! No wonder Homer Simpson loves them!
Kraut and pork my nigga. I did that today.

I'm a PA dutch nigga (German) Kraut pork chops (imho sear first) potatoes apple) slow cooker and let alone. more so skip potatoes and make mashed. Also I love kraut... like I eat my body weight in it.
 
Kraut and pork my nigga. I did that today.

I'm a PA dutch nigga (German) Kraut pork chops (imho sear first) potatoes apple) slow cooker and let alone. more so skip potatoes and make mashed. Also I love kraut... like I eat my body weight in it.
Kraut is a gift from God. I made sauerkraut soup for dinner last night, shit is delicious.
 
Nope, but I will now! Thanks for the suggestion!
It'll change your life. Try wet brining (enough water to cover meat, 1 tbsp salt per cup water used) and dry brining (salt both sides of steak/chop, let sit at room temp for an hour) and see which you like more. I've been dry brining every piece of meat lately.
 
Made pork tenderloin medallions with chestnut mushrooms & onions in a red wine sauce(nothing fancy, just fired some garlic in the cooking juices & then deglazed) today and it was the best thing I've eaten in months.

Kraut and pork my nigga. I did that today.

I'm a PA dutch nigga (German) Kraut pork chops (imho sear first) potatoes apple) slow cooker and let alone. more so skip potatoes and make mashed. Also I love kraut... like I eat my body weight in it.
Try "Stamppot zuurkool", it's a Dutch "recipe". Literally just mashed potatoes with sauerkraut mixed in (you panfry the kraut briefly before mashing it all together) topped with smoked sausage & gravy (brown gravy I think it'd be called there). It's very good. Even better if you have leftovers and fry a crust onto them the next day for breakfast.
 
Have you tried brining them?

oh yah wet brine those suckers for at least 20 mins, toss in a bay leaf into the brine with some peppercorns for extra flavor and get the super thick cut chops. Then cut a nice nook into the centre-line, stuff with apple (granny smith, the tartness will nicely off set the sweetness of the BBQ sauce) stuffing and BBQ till only a touch of pink is left. So gud!

le sigh, now I know what I'm making for dinner tonight.
 
Thinking of making Pasta tonight.
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I made the same pizza dough I used for my last garlic knots attempt. This time I split half of it into knots, half into my first pizza attempt. It turns out I was wrong about what was wrong with my garlic knots last time, it wasn't the butter, the dough was under-cooked. I noticed this because I cooked the pizza first then the knots and the pizza had no additional butter or oil but the same "off" flavor I noticed from my last attempt. So I gave the knots an extra 8 minutes and they didn't have that flavor, but the texture was entirely fucked. The pizza was also poorly shaped, but that feels like something that comes with practice more than anything else. The pizza's consistency was like something out of Chuck E Cheese or Dominos rather than what I was expecting. I'm going to look at other dough recipes and maybe do some reading on achieving different textures while baking.
 
The pizza was also poorly shaped, but that feels like something that comes with practice more than anything else.
Might be your dough balls aren't sealed properly, an improper seal will make shaping a nightmare whereas a correct one makes shaping quite foolproof.
Or you missed the timing and let it ferment too much.
 
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How did you fill them? Pour in chocolate, let it harden, pour filling, then pour top layer of chocolate?
Yeah. You temper the chocolate and put it on mold, after you harden it you put the filling and top it up. Must be tempered otherwise will be impossible to take out of the mold afterwards
 
This is the best shrimp I’ve ever cooked, it’s shrimp fettuccine with baby spinach and sun dried tomatoes. the white wine Alfredo type sauce was actually so good and it didn’t split in the microwave the next day when I had leftovers. My leftovers always split, I’m not sure if the cooking wine is the reason it didn’t but I’m definitely making this again. I didn’t realize the sun dried tomatoes are so chunky and hardy, thought they’d break down while I cooked them but they did not. I will slice them next time before cooking them.
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