Center-Cut Pork Chops with Warm Beet, Carrot & Walnut Salad
I tried Blue Apron out after learning about it from Deidre Huff, and YUM!
Pricing isn’t bad, either.
Favorite recipe so far:
Makes: 2 Servings
Calories: About 615 Per Serving
Cooking Time: 30 to 40 minutes
This recipe uses some of our favorite root vegetables to accent the richness of center-cut pork chops, basted with butter, smashed garlic and fresh thyme. You’ll marinate beet and shallot in Champagne vinegar, infusing the earthy, sweet beet with the vinegar’s delicate brightness (and mellowing the bite of the shallot). Then you’ll finish the marinated beet with sautéed carrots and arugula. The result is a wholesome and gourmet way to warm up.
What I’m learning, is that other than identifying with the Nurse, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Friend, all those labels I’ve allowed to define me for my entire life…other than these, I’m still a 13-year-old girl in a 50-something year old body…I’m a work in progress, a survivor, a tender heart, a tough negotiator, a music appreciator, an experimental cook, a peace-keeper, a book lover, a wine taster, an amateur photographer, a problem solver, a family historian, and so much more.
Conservative Libertarian Bohemian Revolutionary is my ‘tagline’, but those who understand me, understand this means: I loathe labels, and remain un-defined.
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Cilla C , it’s worth a try. I may not continue, as SuperDave isn’t as crazy about it as I am…but I’m learning to use ingredients that are new to me, so that’s a good thing.
Needed to stretch my horizons a bit, you know? 🙂
I looked at BA, and the biggest plus to me was getting herbs that I wouldn’t normally buy. Didn’t seem worth the money to me, but I know a lot of people like it a lot.
When it comes to about $10 per meal per person, it beats the $22 pizzas SD would eat all by himself, Angie Person .
But yeah, that’s the draw for me too…the things I wouldn’t normally buy, in an amount that means I won’t waste anything.
I’m trying so hard to eat fresh and more healthily. Adding variety and tastes is right up my alley, but I’m also having to consider quantities that won’t ruin before I’m able to use them. Root vegetables do keep longer, so that’s a plus.
Looks delicious BobbieZen – I too have a spouse that isn’t all that crazy about healthy eating, but, I’m the coojk, like my parents taught me – eat or go hungry – actually the said “eat or else!”
You pretty much need to use these up in a week’s time Cilla C . And the prep, does take some time..these aren’t necessarily “Quick and easy”…just pre-packaged in the right amounts.
roasted beets (grated or diced), barley braised in garlic then cooked in stock (chicken or otherwise), goat Feta cheese. serve with the barley hot, and the rest will warm from the barely. YUM!
looks pretty good!
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That looks beautiful! I think I need to try it.
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It was! steph lake . I had never, not even once, used a fresh beet for anything. 🙂
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and warmed, too. Owlfred NightLong
😛
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Cilla C , it’s worth a try. I may not continue, as SuperDave isn’t as crazy about it as I am…but I’m learning to use ingredients that are new to me, so that’s a good thing.
Needed to stretch my horizons a bit, you know? 🙂
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I looked at BA, and the biggest plus to me was getting herbs that I wouldn’t normally buy. Didn’t seem worth the money to me, but I know a lot of people like it a lot.
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When it comes to about $10 per meal per person, it beats the $22 pizzas SD would eat all by himself, Angie Person .
But yeah, that’s the draw for me too…the things I wouldn’t normally buy, in an amount that means I won’t waste anything.
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Bingo. I guess it’s all relative 🙂
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I’m trying so hard to eat fresh and more healthily. Adding variety and tastes is right up my alley, but I’m also having to consider quantities that won’t ruin before I’m able to use them. Root vegetables do keep longer, so that’s a plus.
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Looks delicious BobbieZen – I too have a spouse that isn’t all that crazy about healthy eating, but, I’m the coojk, like my parents taught me – eat or go hungry – actually the said “eat or else!”
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You pretty much need to use these up in a week’s time Cilla C . And the prep, does take some time..these aren’t necessarily “Quick and easy”…just pre-packaged in the right amounts.
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Exactly, Will James
If it’s on the table, you get That. Or else, as Judge Smails said,
“You’ll have NOTHING and LIKE IT!”. 😉
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gimme
u kin keep da beets tho
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I have never ever cooked with beets, Bobbi Jo Woods . Was surprised. Good, in small amounts, even.
So, I’ll keep em. The carrots were NOMZ.
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roasted beets (grated or diced), barley braised in garlic then cooked in stock (chicken or otherwise), goat Feta cheese. serve with the barley hot, and the rest will warm from the barely. YUM!
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Oohhh… I’m so going to try that! J. Hancock
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it’s amazing, BobbieZen. =]
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