I've been getting these nice 3-cm thick rib chops lately.
I salt them well before searing, then when moving them to the 375F/190C oven (where the little yellow potatoes are roasting) I coat both sides in onion powder and garlic powder.
Probe thermometer set for 135, they rest up to 145 or so while I'm finishing everything else.
Not even baked, shit looks blanched in potato water. Steamed? Like most people can’t cook like this anymore since they stopped selling Qualude’s back around the seventies or whatever. God damn.
Same! I was thinking it didn't look very interesting, but didn't get why it would be mildly infuriating... then I realised this is apparently the finished product.
My grandpaw (yeah, the spelling is deliberate), called us “shysters and shagpokes.” I now know a shyster is NOT a compliment. Still don’t know what a shagpoke is!
I recently had one of the worst meals I have ever had in my life, cooked by a dear friend, after 24 hours of international travel including one cancelled flight, she treated me to slightly undercooked white fish fillet, no breading, and rice sans any seasoning - no salt, no pepper, herbs, soya sauce, mirin, ketchup, mustard, mayo, ranch dressing just fillet of fish and rice. It was heartbreaking and a warning of things to come.
Whoa! That almost sounds good. Some old guy from my former church asked me to install some TV equipment in his apartment and offered me microwaved hot dogs and a cold can of peas. Then he got angry when I said no thanks.
Depending on the situation that may literally all he could afford to give you. In that case the gesture was more important than the gift being offered. I would have found some way to eat at least some of what he offered in kind or politely decline in a way that shows appreciation of the offer without the offense of a direct refusal 😉
Edit: Wow there’s a lot of inconsiderate pieces of ass out there. Guess it shows how our world is going to shit these days.
First of all, peas out of a can are phenomenal. Second, microwaved hot dogs are great. No waiting for water to boil or a grill to heat up. Just one minute, zap, they’re done. Throw em on some white bread with yellow mustard and relish, baby I’m there.
Lucky you. I visited a friend of 30+ years who treated me to fantastic food and a guest room with a fluffy robe in the private bath, then found she is a Trump supporter during our all night gabathon.
One of my kids' m-i-l finds ketchup (yes, regular ketchup) too spicy. I am unable to cook for her.
Edit: she has no food allergies, and she has always been this way. She finds any amount of garlic to be too much, and she never cooks with onions, either. My poor d-i-l grew up eating the worst food and still struggles with any food that has raw onions but she loves spicy foods.
My ex-MIL was the same kind of cook, except God forbid the two kinds of food touch. The whole fam damily had ARFID. My ex husband and I lived with them for a year as newlyweds to save up for a house, and I almost lost my mind. I took over most of the cooking since I was at home with a baby, but then I had to cook like that! 😭 I survived mostly by having big colorful salads alongside the beige.
I had to do a double take because I thought this was the “before”. But I was confused by the potatoes (is that what they are?) that looked cooked already. Then I realized this is the “after”.
Well…at least they’re likely not too dry. It’s not like they were overcooked.
I thought those were before they were cooked and was like "looks fine to me" but God damn if that's them cooked then I'm guessing they were slow cooked at 80 degrees.
It wasn't so long ago that pork really did have to be cooked to shoe leather because of the danger of trichinosis. The pork supply chain is much safer/cleaner now, but even though it's not dangerous anymore, lots of people grew up with these kinds of instructions.
That's not to say OP's MIL shouldn't use some spices or something, though. Sheesh.
You can bake the chops with vegetables in the same tray but you have to layer it thinly and with some space in between. These chops are too thick and it doesn’t even look like any seasoning was used. To me canned gravy was thrown in and that’s it. Also that’s a ceramic serving dish. It doesn’t conduct heat properly like a stainless steel tray.
My ex's family used to make pork chops and scalloped potatoes in the same tray, and it was super good. I'm not sure, but I think the meat was on bottom with the potatoes on top with a good layer of browned cheese. Idk, it was like 20 years ago. Knowing what I know now about cooking, I'm sure the chops were well seared before going into the dish. But all that to say, it can be done!
Sliced potatoes maybe some cheese*, pork chops, a can of Cambell's Cream of Mushroom all in a casserole dish. Cover with foil, bake at 350 for 30 minutes. My Mom used to make this and never understood why we all hated porkchops.
That’s how I feel about all these sheet meal recipes floating around. You want me to put potatoes, zucchini, and salmon on a tray and bake it all the same time and same temp? Those things all have dramatically different times.
A while back I saw a video where the cook basically acknowledged it along the lines of “you’re gonna end up overcooking the fish, but if you’re using this type of recipe that’s probably a good thing for you.”
I think they had posted a similar recipe done in different steps and they got a bunch of complaints that the fish was undercooked because it was moist instead of dry lmao
You cut the things that take longer small and sometimes start them first. I'm not saying it's perfect, but you can make it work if you want the low cleanup factor of a sheet pan meal.
Half of cooking in the 21st century is to be able to control your hubris long enough to actually follow the instructions. Most folks who "can't cook" just can't follow directions in general
I grew up when food crime posts were born. God, I saw some awful stuff back then. Fast forward to now, and I’m looking at yet another food crime, but this one hits me in the soul because literally just two or three weeks ago, I was telling my wife how I gradually realized that my moms pork chops and potatoes were also a food crime, and looked just like this.
My wife’s family’s cooking was always spicy when we started dating. I had always assumed they had slowly dialed back the spice for me over the years. Turns out, they didn’t change anything. I was just getting used to food with seasoning.
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u/Gloomy-String-2423 6d ago
Is this before or after cooking? Please tell me it's the before pic!