Thursday Change-up - Pork Chops!

It had been a long while since I had pork chops, either at home or in a restaurant... So I picked up a couple at the Jewels, rubbed them with Hot Rocks seasoning, and let them sit in the fridge overnight...

Prepped some veg and fruit when I got home from work, simple split broccoli and cauli, spritzed with oil to help browning and prevent sticking. Also split and cored two pears, similarly spritzed...

After I flipped the pears I put some smoked blue cheese and rosemary in the cavity...



Yum! Awesome Thursday night supper! Nice juicy chops, with smoky grilled veg... The pears were a pleasant surprise - the smoked cheese and rosemary helped to moderate the intensity of the pears' sweetness!

Steak Supper Thursday

I decided to take a personal day tomorrow, a sort of mental health day... So I treated myself to a steak supper, with roasted corn and broccoli.



The steak had been marinating in bukgogi marinade for two days in the fridge... I split the broccoli and spritzed with a little oil spray to help it roast... Yum!

Pizza pizza Thursday - Manzano pepper pizza

I found some manzano/rocoto peppers last weekend. I enjoy them, they are meaty and juicy and with similar flavour and aroma of a habanero chile, but with maybe half the heat. They are from a totally different chile family - pubescens - and they have black seeds rather than the more-common white seeds. I grabbed a handful since their season is short and easily missed.

I gave a couple to a good friend at work, who shares my love of habanero.

Then I made a manzano pizza tonight, with garlics, rosemary, and grape tomatoes. I used ONE manzano chile.



O M G



One bite of the first slice told me that I was in trouble. I immediately texted my friend to alert her that these were not normal manzano peppers, and to be careful...

I spent a lot of time picking the peppers off the pizza. I can handle habanero, but this was well in excess of that heat level.

Maybe they somehow hybridized with ghost peppers?

Wow. Simply wow. I have one left, not sure if I should pop it into a bottle of vodka/everclear (so I can use it by the teaspoon, or drop...). I will save the seeds...