Beer Without Brats

[ase]

Tree shrew lives on beer. The researchers observed seven mammalian species feeding on the [bertam palm] nectar. The pen-tailed tree shrews guzzled the stuff longer than they did any other food source, for an average of 138 minutes per night, in the process helping to pollinate the plants. Yay science!

Sunday I modified a pork recipe to "work" (not be inedible) with ribs, and lo, it was pretty good.

Pork and Potatoes with Rosemary

1 pound medium red potatoes, cut into fourths (or eighths)
1 cup(-ish) cut carrots
1 onion, finely chopped
Olive oil
1 1/2 lbs pork chops
1 1/2 teaspoons dried rosemary leaves
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 cups beef broth french onion soup and water

Dump potatoes and carrots in crockpot. Brown onion and set aside. Sprinkle rosemary, thyme and pepper on vegetables and chops, then brown pork chops. Add pork to crockpot. Deglaze pan and dump liquid in crockpot. Spread onion over crockpot ingredients. Dump liquids in crockpot. Cook 8-10 hours on low or until pork chops are tender. Sprinkle onion over pork. Cover and cook on low 8 to 9 hours or until tender. (In my case, 7 3/4 hours. The meat literally fell off the bone! Yummy.)

Notes: the original recipe called for three pounds of pork; I used the 1 1/2 pounds I picked up from the discount "sell by today" meats. It also wanted beef broth I didn't have; I substituted by eliminating salt, pulling out a half-cup of french onion soup, and making up the difference with water. It was way too much liquid: instead of veggies and pork chops I wound up with something not entirely unlike pork soup. I wound up eyeballing the spices instead of measuring them out, and I think I undershot dramatically.

Comments

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure out how the tree shrew picked up those Scottish genes. Or was it the other way around?

[ase.livejournal.com]

Only more study will tell!