The Local PLate Series...Part Two

So as not to utterly bore those among us that eat vegetables reluctantly if at all (you shall be converted to the dark side, my meat loving brothers,) I figured I had better send out a Local Plate with a bit of grilled meat porn:


The pork chop is courtesy of Aberdeen Hill Farm from Upstate New York, which we purchased at Sang Lee.

Grilled with salt and cracked black pepper it harkened back to the pork chops I remember as a kid from Sal’s Quality Market in Schenectady, NY, not just juicy but with an amazing, sweet, succulent PORK flavor.

Hmmmm...let me see now, pork that tastes like...PORK...and not some flavorless chicken scented “other white meat” marketing ploy? Revolutionary I say!

As Agnes said, “If this is what a pork chop really tastes like, I wouldn’t hate eating them.” That friends...is a huge endorsement!

So that our chops wouldn’t feel lonely, our favorite little farm stand, Wowak Farms in Laurel, provided the asparagus which was lightly coated with olive oil, salt and pepper and then grilled alongside the chops.

We love to stop at Wowak, they’re the throwback stand, selling only what they grow on the farm (instead of trucking something in from God knows what part of Jersey or Florida) and doing so at very fair prices: the aforementioned asparagus was only $3.00 for a fist sized bunch.

Aside from the asparagus, we’re especially fond of Wowak’s sugar snap peas (more on these tasty little demons another time,) their green beans and this past weekend we had a superlative quart of large juicy strawberries which I sliced over a mixed green salad and later served as dessert tossed with just a bit of honey....delicious simplicity that!

Yes...the rice pilaf is a Near East boxed mix. Shoot me. As I figure it, shortcuts aren’t illegal if they constitute less than half of your meal. O sweet prevarication!