salt and pepper pork
Today we made Salt and Pepper Pork Chops (DH took the pic above). I did the prep work and DH did the frying, per our usual arrangement. This turned out really delicious. It's just spicy enough to have a little heat, but not so spicy that you'd get the roof of your mouth burned off.
I also made some katsu sauce (recipe below) to go with it, but we didn't end up needing it for the pork, which was flavorful and tasty on its own.
Tonkatsu Sauce
3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds
I also made lunches for next week out of bacon, broccoli and cauliflower, homemade ranch spice mix, sour cream, and cheese. I roasted the veggies first on their own prevent them from watering down the sauce, then mixed with sour cream, spice mix, and topped with cheese. I baked it for a little while and that was it. It's an easy lunch that's pretty tasty. I used 2 heads of broccoli and 1 head of cauliflower, and it only made enough for 4 lunches. Last time, I added chicken, and that basically doubled the volume and made 8 lunches.
The problem with cooking multiple dishes concurrently is that I don't actually know how much work the pork itself was. My inclination is to say that it was too much work, but it probably only felt like that because I was making the ranch spice mix (sans buttermilk), cooking the broccoli, etc. The pork itself was probably not that much work. It's definitely tasty enough to make again, and when DH and I cook together, it feels like less work for sure. Teamwork!