Epicurious Recipe: Balsamic Glazed Pork Chops

Story Background: I read this recipe while I was on the plane on my way to Singapore. This sounded like a delicious recipe, and so I scribbled it down on a piece of paper. My notes were horrible though, so I was a little bit worried. But to my pleasant surprise, after surfing around on the Internet for a little bit, I found the recipe online at Epicurious.

The Problem: Reading some of the reviews, the biggest complaint was by far, the fact that the pork chop was too dry. In the recipe, you had to cook the pork twice. The first time, to cook it all the way through, and the second time, to glaze it in sauce. Cooking pork twice generally meant very dry pork.

Due Diligence: I remember a radio cooking show I use to listen to back in Los Angeles called Melinda Lee. Melinda was a big fan of brining meats. One of the reviewers of the recipe suggested brining, and so I did some searching online, and found This Pork Brining Recipe. The last thing I wanted was dry pork. Pork should be juicy and flavorful, not cooked until it's like 新東陽肉乾.

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Very few things cook better than cast iron.  So I really wanted a cast iron skillet.  I so regretted not bring my old one with me from America when I came to Taiwan.  I had no idea I couldn't buy one here in Taiwan, and so I had to "settle" for just looking at pictures of cast iron skillets.  Mail ordering from America wasn't reasonable, as the skillet was 4.53KG and shipping alone would have been over $120USD!  And then I found out, they aren't even willing to ship to Taiwan!  What to do...

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紫米粥，用快鍋來對付難煮的紫米粥，紫米不但不用泡水，製作起來也快速簡單。

準備材料：
1. 紫米一杯
2. 薏仁半杯
3. 糙米一碗(剩飯)
4. 水10杯

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蓮藕汁，第一次喝到這款好喝的蓮藕汁，是某個炎炎夏日在宜蘭玩時，經過了一片蓮藕田，老闆自己種蓮藕，也在田邊的馬路上設攤，賣蓮藕製品。因為老闆幫我們叫計程車，所以彭場買了一瓶蓮藕汁；結果一喝就纏著老闆問怎麼製作的了，好好喝喔。

這老闆賣的蓮藕汁是沒有過濾的，還有蓮藕渣在裡頭，可是蓮藕本身帶點黏性，加上冰糖調味後，喝起來很滑潤順口，不會覺得在喝渣的感覺。

做法很簡單，究是把蓮藕煮熟(蒸熟也行)，再加水、加冰糖，用打果汁機打成汁即可馬上喝了。因為買了快鍋，所以用快鍋來快速煮好蓮藕。

準備材料：

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前陣子聽到新光三越A4館B2超市販賣的法國粿名廚Christine Ferber的果醬，正在特價，所以我就去買了兩瓶回家，已經在特價的價格，兩瓶果醬還是要花上幾乎一千大洋的價格，真的是在前面徘迴了很久，想說難得特價，才心一狠，咬牙刷下去！

當時Pekoe也有在場做展示，小姐非常客氣的讓我試吃了玫瑰花瓣醬、幾款果醬等，然後提到新光三越A4館的果醬也是跟她們進的哩。

下次再來介紹這款果醬，因為目前為止只把一瓶吃完，另外一瓶還沒開，就收到了Ikumi送的FANCL藍莓醬，所以先開了這瓶來吃；接著又收到了友人送的一些蜜蘋果，突然想到買快鍋時送的食譜DVD裡面，有一個教學就是製作蘋果醬和蘋果汁，讓我躍躍欲試呢。

因此，上面這相片裡裝的，是Janie Tsai我自己製作的蘋果果醬哩，只是借用了Christine Ferber的空罐來裝：Ｐ

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