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Welcome to Thyme Flies, a place to find southern, and Cajun and Creole recipes as well as plain old home cooking.
It's also a place to spend a little thyme.
Aunt Dot sent me one of Anna Pourteau’s recipes.Anna, Dot’s mother-in-law and Uncle Bertrand’s mother, was a wonderful cook.It sounds
great, and Dot - a wonderful cook as well - gives me her personal guarantee that it is.
Pork
Chops, English Peas & Tomatoes with Steamed Rice 4 pork
chops, center cut¼ cup canola or olive oil 14.5 oz tomatoes,
diced15 oz LeSuer English peas, undrained 15 oz chicken broth (fat free)½ medium onion, chopped 2 stalks celery, chopped2 cloves garlic, minced ½c green bell pepper, chopped½ c red bell pepper, chopped ½ tsp sweet basil2 tsps parsley ½ tsp oregano¼ tsp thyme ½ tsp salt½ tsp pepper 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce¼ tsp Louisiana hot sauceSteamed Rice 1 c rice 2 ¼ cups water ½ tsp salt
Salt and pepper pork chops.
Put oil in large non-stick skillet. Heat oil to a medium hot temperature, add pork chops and brown on both sides.
Remove from skillet. Turn heat down to medium and add onion, celery, bell peppers and
garlic. Cook until limp. Add tomatoes, chicken broth, basil, parsley, oregano, thyme, salt, pepper, Worchester
sauce and Louisiana hot sauce.Stir, mixing all vegetables well. Add pork chops back to
skillet and cook until tender. When chops are tender, add English peas. Taste to see if you need to re-season.
Simmer approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Cook rice and serve the pork chop with tomatoes and English Peas over the hot
steamed rice. Enjoy.
NOTE: Cook rice according to directions. Serve pork chops, tomatoes and
vegetables over hot steamed rice. Serves 4.
I grew up eating my Mother's home cooking. I didn't know that we were poor, but we were - moneywise, that is.
We never missed a meal, and, as I look back, I now see that everyone was a culinary masterpiece. That's what we're after
here - the realization that simpler is sometimes (if not always) best.
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