You know, I could wax on at length about this dinner and how it was all inspired by this recipe find of spinach artichoke hummus from Gimme Some Oven. I could tell you how I needed an end-of-the-week pick-me-up, healthy yet tasty, and how the mention of pork chops at work (which happens a lot more than you’d think) made me think I could combine my love of pork with my love of spinach, artichokes and hummus and sure it would be weird but it would also be awesome. I could tell you how easy this meal was to pull together, even though I had absolutely no idea what to do with the potatoes even as they were cooking; I just knew that I wanted them. I could tell you how fantastic thick center-cut pork chops are and how they’re even better stuffed with wedges of Cordobes sheep’s milk cheese, or how good potatoes are with meat drippings poured over them, or how surprisingly well spinach-artichoke-hummus can be smothered over said porkchops, cheese and potatoes.
I could do all of those things. But I will let the pictures speak for themselves: Continue reading
Imagine a scenario, if you will, in which you need to feed a few people. Like, oh, I don’t know, 5000 people or so. On a beach. Near Bethsaida. And like, these people are really hungry, right, because it’s late and this is way back a couple thousand years before the invention of segways and nobody wants to walk back to town on an empty stomach. And it’s okay, because you’ve got the food to feed these people, you’ve got…five loaves of bread and two fish. It’s like an embarrassment of…what? You don’t think it’s enough? Dude, it’ll be totally fine, just add one more thing to this meal and the people will be sated. All you need is…