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Take it away, Sofie! PS Readers, there's a giveaway below, so remember to leave a comment with your email to enter!!
One of our family’s favorite meals once apple season begins in late September is Pork with Onions and Apples. Where I live the cool nights give us gorgeous red Honey Crisp apples that have become my go-to apple for this recipe. Thanks to good winter storage facilities we can enjoy Pork with Onions and Apples all fall and winter.
Pork with Onions and Apples
6 thin cut,
trimmed, boneless pork chops
1 ½ cups chicken
broth
2 teaspoons
cornstarch
2 teaspoons vegetable
oil
1 onion thinly
sliced or 1 leek thinly sliced
1 Honey Crisp or
Granny Smith apple peeled and thinly sliced
⅓ cup apple juice
2 teaspoons
mustard
¼ teaspoon dried
thyme
Mix three
tablespoons of the chicken stock with the cornstarch and set aside
Heat 1 teaspoon
of the oil in a large frying pan. Brown the pork chops on medium-high heat 2 to
3 minutes per side. Remove to a plate. Add the remaining teaspoon of oil to the
pan. Reduce the heat to medium and cook the onions 2 to 3 minutes until soft. Add
the sliced apple and cook until soft, about another 3 to 5 minutes.
Add the chicken
broth, apple juice, mustard, thyme and pork chops. Cook for 2 to 3 more
minutes. Add the cornstarch mixture and mix well. Simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.
Makes 6 servings.
We like this with
potatoes or rice and I think leftovers would make a delicious lunch the next
day but we’ve never had any leftovers!
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A Whisker of Trouble
is the third book in the Second Chance Cat mysteries featuring re-purpose shop owner Sarah Grayson, and
Elvis the rescue cat.
Spring has come
to charming North Harbor, Maine, and with the new season comes a new haul for
Second Chance, the shop where Sarah Grayson sells lovingly refurbished and
repurposed items. Sarah is turning her keen eye to the estate of collector
Edison Hall, hoping for fabulous finds for Second Chance—but when Elvis
discovers a body in the kitchen, everything goes paws up.
The body belongs to an appraiser who had been hired to check out Edison’s wine collection. When Edison’s sister shows up at Second Chance, she hires Sarah’s friends—the kooky and charismatic trio of ladies and their hacker sidekick, Mr. P., who call themselves Charlotte’s Angels and work out of the shop—to solve the murder, Sarah knows she and Elvis are only going to get deeper into the case. But as it becomes a cat and mouse game of lies, cons, cheats, and family squabbles, can Elvis and Sarah claw their way to the truth before the killer slinks away forever?
The body belongs to an appraiser who had been hired to check out Edison’s wine collection. When Edison’s sister shows up at Second Chance, she hires Sarah’s friends—the kooky and charismatic trio of ladies and their hacker sidekick, Mr. P., who call themselves Charlotte’s Angels and work out of the shop—to solve the murder, Sarah knows she and Elvis are only going to get deeper into the case. But as it becomes a cat and mouse game of lies, cons, cheats, and family squabbles, can Elvis and Sarah claw their way to the truth before the killer slinks away forever?
Giveaway!
Two (2) lucky Mystery Lover’s Kitchen readers will win a copy of A Whisker of Trouble. To enter, share your favorite cooking apple in comments—I’m always looking for suggestions—or just say hello. Winners will be picked Tuesday.
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Welcome, Sofie! Thank you for sharing the recipe and about your fabulous book. My favorite cooking apple is Golden Delicious. Liz EMS591@aol.com
ReplyDeleteWhat a great book! I love apples as a snack dessert, or a compliment for various recipes. My favorite is the Rome Apple, although Pink Ladies are great, too.
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Hello! I don't really cook with apples. As a matter of fact, I only eat one type of apple and that is Macintosh. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI love honey crisp in salads. I mix apples when I make a pie. Thanks for the chance to win. suefoster109@netzero.net.
ReplyDeleteMy late mother-in-law made a wonderful apple pie and she always mixed different types of apples. Sadly, I'm not very good at making pastry--it's closer to asphalt.
DeleteI love to use Granny Smith apples for cooking. The stand up to cooking nicely.
ReplyDeleteMy boyfriend makes a vegan apple cake that's really good. He always used 3 Granny Smith apples. Then one time he was short one apple so I gave him a Cortland I'd bought to eat raw. We found that using 2 Granny Smiths and one red apple made the cake much moister.
ReplyDeleteI don't cook much with apples any more but your recipe sounds so good! Love both of your cat series.
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I use gala's in most of recipes. Also really enjoy granny smith apples. Thanks for the giveaway. poohwine1217@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteHoney Crisp sell for almost $4 a pound here! They're very good, though! I love cooked apples with pork but I've never made them exactly this way. Will be trying it out!
ReplyDeleteI'm in apple and potato country. I bought Honey Crisp last week for 1.99 a kg which is 2.2 pounds. We eat a lot of apples and potatoes this time of year.
DeleteI don't cook apple, but I love your stories.
ReplyDeleteThat recipe sounds delicious. Thank you for the giveaway. marlene.ezell@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance! Zeta@iwon.com
ReplyDeleteI think the Rome apple holds up well in cooking---and makes a really good baked apple.
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I cook with apples regularly and use wither Macintosh or Spy's. These are the best cooking apples for applesauce and apple cake. We lived near orchards which had an abundance of a wonderful variety and we would pick apples every fall. Love the post and giveaway. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteNorthern Spy makes great applesauce. I finished the last bottle from the freezer just a couple of days ago.
DeleteTRAVELER! You won one of the copies. Sofie will be in touch! Congrats. ~ Daryl / Avery
DeleteWelcome to Mystery Lovers Kitchen, Sophie! Your recipe looks yummy - it would be a hit here too.
ReplyDeleteHugs.
MJ aka Victoria Abbott
Hello!! I don't do much cooking anymore, but love to read recipes. Your book sounds like a must read!
ReplyDeletejawdance@yahoo.com
I don't cook with apples very often, but I do enjoy a snack of Granny Smith apples with peanut butter. Yummy.
ReplyDeletefrybbe@gmail.com
My daughter does that but she puts the peanut butter in the microwave for a few seconds first and then dips the apples slices.
DeleteI don't cook with apples usually. My favorite apple for eating is a Gala. Your book sounds terrific! lkish77123 at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteAwesome! You are a new author for me. Can't wait to read! :-)
ReplyDeleteGranny Smith is my favorite in a recipe because the tartness balances out the sugar or sweeteners. The books sounds great. Funny that I am not a cat person (the Pug would not like it!) but I love to read stories with cats in them. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeletesallycootie@gmail.com
Are you sure you don't secretly have a teeny bit of cat person in you? I promise not to tell the Pug.
DeleteWhenever I cook and bake with apples I enjoy using Rome, but the very best for taste and flavor are Macs. Apples are my staple and I love making delectable goodies for the family. I grew up near apple farms and each year bought bushels of freshly picked apples. elliotbencan(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteThis looks yummy! I don't do the cooking in the family so I cannot answer the question, lol.
ReplyDeleteThis book is on my wish list, thanks for the chance!
karen(dot)kenyon(at)rogers(dot)com
I don't cook with apples. I would love to read this! It sounds really good! Thank you!
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Welcome back to the Kitchen, Sofie! The new book sounds Delicious. :)
ReplyDeleteThe recipe looks yummy and so does the book! Thanks for the chance to win!
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