My Sweet Little Pork Chop

I was unpacking my meat order from Meridian Meats, as I do. Everything was in order. BUT I got one random Rosemary Garlic Pork Chop that I didn’t order. What? A free pork chop?!! Well I’m not gonna complain about a free little gift from the universe. But what the hell you do with one pork chop?

I consulted with ChatGPT, as one does. How can I stretch one pork chop into a meal to feed five? Pfft. Easy we both said as we high fived. I told her I’m thinking beans. She said great. We both thought.

Then I was like hey, I have a whole head of cabbage. We were both like oh snap, cabbage.

I looked in my fridge. Brenda! I have prosciutto that I need to use up! She was like STOP. We have a meal.

So I poured some wine and put on my 90s rock playlist and browned that prosciutto.

I threw in the pork chop to sear and with delight I realized my pork chop was TWINS! Two babies!!!!

It’s everything I could have hoped for.

Twin pork chops, prosciutto, onions, garlic, carrots, celery, cabbage and my soul nourishing broth. I mixed chicken broth and beef broth because I’m pretty sure that equals pork? Anyway, pretty sure this was all pretty much free and so f*cking good.

I am far from a culinary genius, but what I love about cooking:

Sometimes you plan.
Sometimes you improvise.
And sometimes you have pork chop twins.

You roll with it.