Showing posts with label Pork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pork. Show all posts

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Free Baked Pork Chops Recipe

How evocative it is to enter the kitchen and be greeted by the tantalising drift of fragrance that is floating from the oven where the heady aroma of your favourite baked pork chop recipe is reminding you how much you enjoy baked pork chops in all their guises and how hungry you are. All meats have their own special flavours, rich cuts of tasty beef, juicy tender lamb or the mouth watering subtle flavours of poultry and game. None though can match the unique flavour of pale tender soft pork oozing with juices and edged with tasty crisp pork fat.
One of the special qualities of pork is that it combines so well with so many other flavours to offer a variety of dishes that are hard to match. Top of the list for a special baked pork chop recipe are the many dishes you can prepare that combine your chops with all different varieties of fruits. From apples and apricots to figs and prunes many types of luscious fruits will add varied and subtle flavours to your pork and multiply the ways in which you can enjoy this dish.

For even greater variety try marinating your meat in new combinations of overnight juices. Orange and cider will combine to add sweetness and a gentle acidity to your dish alternatively raisins soaked in apricot brandy produce a flavour enhanced by rich warmth which has to be tasted to be believed.
Another option is to add a special sauce to your baked pork chop recipe just before it is served. Sauces such as mustard and cream add a richness that is hard to resist and for that special dish cranberry and red wine, imagine the smell and sight of the roasted meat pale and fragrant rising out of an island of rich ruby sauce.
If you want to increase your culinary fame go that little bit further and select your pork with extra care. Modern pig producing methods will give you a good selection of chops with reasonable flavours and at a good price and available to you locally. However it should be possible for you to find a butcher who will offer you specially hand-reared pork. Often this pork is produced from specialist types of older breeds and many of the animals will have been reared in a free range method which increases the flavour and texture of the meat considerably.
Baked pork chops recipes are easy to produce in a short amount of time with a minimum of preparation. They are varied and tasty enough for you to produce many different meals from relatively inexpensive meat and each dish with a different flavour. They will look after themselves in the oven while you get on with other things and the results will arrive on your table, tasty every time. No matter how committed you are to that, no meat or vegetarian diet or how well your doing with your rabbit food weight loss its only the strongest that can resist the seductive variety and flavour of the baked pork chop.


Ian Pennington

Saturday, October 18, 2008

How to Make a Seductive Chili

Dedicated Chili cooks always seem to be looking for an amazing recipe for a blow-you-out-of- the-water chili. Wouldn't it be exciting to UNLEASH your chili and rock your family and friends’ worlds, save money and have a great time preparing it? Searching the Internet, I found so many of you looking for new chili recipes. My husband, Coach, is a gourmet cook who has developed chili recipes that are easy, time and money saving and make your body tingle from the first taste right down to your toes.
Slow cooking is the key to this dynamic
recipe. Due to this cooking process, less expensive cuts of meat can be used. Actually, they are more flavorful and tender using this process. We have found a sultry and seductive chili is produced using a slow cooking technique.
Finding a recipe that uses your local grocery store ingredients is a time and money saving benefit of this chili. There are no fancy ingredients that you have to go to a specialty shop to buy. So, you can get the ingredients during one of your weekly food shopping trips.
This recipe is time and money saving and produces a sultry chili that your family and friends will think came from a high-class restaurant.


Dynamic Chuck/Pork Roast Chili


Ingredients 3-5 lb. pork roast salt and pepper to taste 1 onion 1 red, green or yellow bell pepper ½ cup finely chopped parsley or cilantro 4 cloves of garlic 2-3 chopped jalapenos with seeds 1 teaspoon of salt 2 tablespoons of cumin 1 tablespoon of chili powder (A local grocery store brand is fine.) 3 16 oz. can of black beans Trim fat down to you dietary requirement or remove after cooking.
Leave the bone in to cook – it adds more flavor.
Put chuck roast or pork roast in roasting pan with a lid. Add 64 ozs. of liquid in with the meat. Salt and pepper the meat. Put the fat side up. Roast the meat only on 350 degrees for 2 hours. Leave the bone in the meat.
After roasting the meat for 2 hours, put in all of the remaining chili ingredients. Putting the vegetables in for the last hour will not only
cook them through, but the vegetables will maintain their color and consistency. This cooking technique will not allow them to be absorbed into the broth.
Add onion of your choice, green, red, or yellow bell pepper. Add chopped cilantro, chopped garlic, and finely chopped jalapenos. If you want more heat, put the seeds in from the hot pepper. Otherwise discard the seeds.
For spices, add salt, cumin, and your favorite chili powder.
At the end of the 2-hour cooking time, add the vegetables and seasonings to the meat broth. Remove the meat and let stand. Be sure the meat is tender enough – it should be almost falling off the bone. Stir the vegetables into the meat broth. Roast the vegetables and V8 broth for one hour at 350 degrees.
Check the vegetable mixture after an hour, and if vegetables are cooked through, remove the pan from the oven. Stir in 6 cans of beans. Cover and let sit about 30 minutes until beans heat through.
Pull the meat apart into shreds. Discard fat and bone. Add the meat into the bean and broth mixture.

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Broiled Garlic Ginger Pork Tenderloin with Broiled Vegetables

This easy dinner recipe is also an easy clean up. You need only a broiling pan and a cutting board to make the complete meal. The menu features broiled pork tenderloin and broiled vegetables. Add a nice slice of bread to round out the meal. The vegetables are broiled right alongside the meat for a quick, easy dinner recipe that is sure to please.


Garlic Ginger Pork Tenderloin Dinner
3/4 pound pork tenderloin1 Tablespoon garlic, minced1 Tablespoon fresh ginger root, mincedseasoned salt1 large onion, sliced thin2 small yellow squash or zucchini squash2 medium size tomatoes1-2 Tablespoons olive oilFew drops balsamic vinegar (optional)kosher salt
Preheat the broiler
Combine the ginger and garlic. Pierce the tenderloin all over the surface forming little pockets. Rub the ginger and garlic mixture into these pockets. Season the outside well with seasoning salt.
Place onto a broiler pan. Slice the onions, squash and tomatoes for broiling. Slice the squash in half lengthwise and the tomatoes crosswise. Slice the onion into slices and place on the broiler pan, cut side up, around the pork tenderloin.
Brush the onions, squash and tomatoes with oil, then sprinkle with kosher salt. Optional: sprinkle the tomatoes with a little balsamic vinegar.
Broil 4 - 6 inches from the heat for 8 minutes.
Turn the pork tenderloin over. Broil for another 6 minutes.
When the pork is done, transfer to a cutting board and let rest for 5 minutes.
Cut the pork into thin slices and arrange on dinner plates with the onion, squash and tomato. Enjoy!You can roast any other vegetables you desire with this easy dinner recipe as well. Use sliced peppers, leftover boiled or baked potatoes or sweet potatoes.
This easy dinner recipe for pork tenderloin prepared is very with garlic and ginger, but it is delicious! It is worth the effort to make the pockets for the ginger and garlic. The spiciness penetrates the meat. If you don't want to be bothered making the pockets, then coat the meat with the spices on the outside. I prefer Lawry's Seasoned Salt for coating the outside, give it a good sprinkle. The salty spiciness makes this dish.
You can prepare a pork loin this way as well, but it will need to cook much longer. Usually, when preparing a loin, I prepare it this way, then put it on the grill for about 30 - 45 minutes or until done.

Saturday, September 06, 2008

How To Cook Pork

There are a lot of ways that you can learn when you want to know how to cook pork. Depending on what pork recipe you like you will have to find a recipe for it. The recipe will tell you how to cook pork for that particular dish. You just need to make sure that the temperature of the pork is 160 degrees F. for it to be considered done. Here are some tips that you want to follow when you are cooking pork.

One: When you are cooking thicker cuts of meat or roast you want to make sure that you cook it for 30 minutes per pound at 350 degrees F. The time you cook it will depend on how many pounds it is so you will have to do some simple math to figure out the correct cooking time.
Two: No matter what you are cooking or how long it takes to cook it you want to make sure that the internal temperature is 160 degrees F. When you are cooking thinner cuts of pork this will happen faster than it would for thicker cuts of meat. It will also happen faster if you are cooking it at a higher temperature. For the thicker cuts of meat you will want to cook it slower and at a lower temperature. When the pork you are cooking reached 155 degrees, if you let the pork rest before you cut it, it will raise the temperature to 160 degrees and be done and ready to eat.
Three: You want to buy a meat thermometer. This will save you from trying to guess if it is done. When you are cooking pork you want to know for sure. When using a meat thermometer you will only be making a very small hole in the pork. This is a good thing because you want to keep as much juice in the meat as you can because that is what makes it succulent.
By following these three tips no matter what pork you are cooking you will be able to have delicious meat and know that you are not going to get sick because it is not done. You have to make sure that you check it before you stop cooking it because you want it to be done but not overdone. Learning how to cook pork is not hard to do it just takes some time and common sense. So when you like to eat pork you will want to take the time needed to learn how to cook it right.