May 31, 2017

Max’s Musings

By Max Molleston

We hope some heat is a feature of our lives this month. The weather has been stop and start most of the Spring. However, our choice is to bring to these paragraphs a different heat. This heat calls for home cooking aimed at being  delicious. Several months ago I did some poetic demonstrating of a particular bean soup recipe. This month, as it indicated, we are into baking, in a stove oven, well sometimes. Words though are fine with me, so we proceed.

                           

Pork Roast 

Take a sharp knife

and stick holes in the roast

and stuff each hole with a sliver of garlic .

The holes should be about  1 ½ to 2 inches apart.

Then rub the roast with lots of salt and pepper,

and a little brown sugar.  Have your Dutch 

Oven on the stove. (Well, it is an oven, as

described)  with just enough grease

to brown the roast on all sides . 

Surround it with  sweet potatoes (whole).

Cover it and cook slowly until the pork is tender and WELL DONE. 

If you need some juice , use a little water. 

Some people brown their pork roast 

on top of the stove  and then  put it in the oven

( is that Dutch or our home stove oven? Not noted in the recipe)

It takes a little longer, but they  say it’s better.

This meaty marvel is from one of my daughter’s cookbooks, now in my possession.  The book is titled “White Trash  Cooking”, compiled by Ernest Matthew Mickler, published in 1986.  All of which (the recipes) are delightful in their descriptions and procedures. Since I do not cook or prepare via recipe, I read books like this just for fun , and maybe to promote a little hunger from the  words.

From the New York Times:

Funeral Baked Potatoes (updated)

Ingredient marching orders

  push sour cream, more grated sharp

   cheddar, and grated Gruyere , wonderful

cheese for such a concoction.

More: fresh garlic, onions and chives,

sure to alert our receptors. Baked potatoes,

refrigerated and grated . Blend and bake.

Sure to create conversations at the funeral.

Join me here in July when we hope our

summer weather will provide the heat.

Filed Under: Humor

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