I can hardly believe it’s 2012 already, and the holidays are over. We roasted a goose, which was very exciting. We had a full-on multiple course Christmas dinner, which was challenging with two-year-olds at the table. But it was a total success, hot goose fat and all. We had a lovely time in San Diego, with all that great weather, and a less-than-awesome eleven-hour drive back to Oakland. And then we had a quiet New Years Eve at home, with cheese and bread and bubbly. The next morning I made Hoppin’ John for good luck, and we ate more cheese and drank more bubbly. And I was so grateful for another day before work started again.
That extra day gave me a chance to try something new in the kitchen: pork chops. I know pork chops are not new to most normal human beings. But they are new to me, or at least mostly. I did try to cook them once, back in the early days of this blog. I brined them, but they were very thin pork chops and ended up so salty they were inedible. After that, I shied away from pork chops, but it’s a New Year, and it’s time to try new things.
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