Not What I Wanted, But It Will Suffice
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (90876)
United States
November 26, 2020 6:26pm CST
I really had it in the plans tonight, since we will not do our actual family Thanksgiving until Sunday, to make some ribyeye steaks cooked in a rosemary butter sauce with sauteed mushrooms and onions.
But the stores were all closed today.
So, instead, I fried up some bacon. Mainly for the grease. I seasoned up some pork steaks with Worcestershire sauce, No Salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder, and some ground ginger.
We ate the bacon.
I cut up two apples and a large onion. I browned the seasoned pork steaks in the bacon grease, and made a mixture of cherry 7 UP and some Ranch dressing bits from an empty container.
I added in the mixture and will braise that for about an hour.
We will have it with a tossed salad. It should be delicious. I guess I will just have to have the rib eyes another day.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
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@kaylachan (69714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Nov 20
Same to you. Sometimes our plans never work out. Wound up going to the store, myself today. The family Dollar was open. As my husband likes to say, sometimes waiting makes it taste better. Enjoy the rest of your holiday.
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@porwest (90876)
• United States
27 Nov 20
Unfortunately what I needed wasn't in any of the stores that were open. Oh well, I can brave at least the grocery store today, and I am willing to pay more since Walmart will likely be a madhouse, and I am not going in there today for any reason whatsoever.
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@kaylachan (69714)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Nov 20
You don't have a neighborhood Wal-mart that just does grocery? Our superstores are no doubt packed (no surprise there), but I imagine our neighborhood Wal-mart will be a ghost town. Because we all know deals revolve around everything but food, soda and the occasional beauty product or medicine. And, yeah. Paying a little extra once in a blue moon is perfectly fine. @porwest
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@porwest (90876)
• United States
30 Nov 20
@kaylachan There used to be one of those years ago, but they have all closed. There aren't many of them around.
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happy thanksgiving
@lovebuglena (44537)
• Staten Island, New York
27 Nov 20
The grocery stores/supermarkets were closed on Thanksgiving?
Whatever you had in that dish looks good. What's a pork steak look like? I only know of a pork chop. 
Is that a pork tenderloin?
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@lovebuglena (44537)
• Staten Island, New York
11h
@porwest I think more stores now either close early on Thanksgiving or close completely.
@porwest (90876)
• United States
27 Nov 20
@NJChicaa I have tried to cook them a hundred different ways, and they always come out a bit too dry for me for whatever reason. Even on the rare occasion I have ordered a pork chop at a restaurant, they are still rather dry and I think even bland.
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@porwest (90876)
• United States
27 Nov 20
I love pork in general. I always find the pork steak to be much juicier, flavorful, and scrumptious over, say, a pork chop, which is often dry for me.
Pork steaks are pretty much a Midwest thing. But it is basically mostly just a cut of the pork butt roast. You could probably ask your butcher for one and he would probably know what it is.
Although, here we have pork steaks AND pork butt steaks, so the actual steak is from another cut...not sure exactly what the difference is. To me the pork steak and pork butt steak are almost identical.
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@everwonderwhy (7347)
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30 Nov 20
Wow! What a great idea for dinner. Do you thicken the mixture?
I use tallow (beef fat dripping) in all my cooking.
Thanks!
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@porwest (90876)
• United States
3 Dec 20
I usually don't. It would be more like a gravy and the wifey is not fond of gravies or heavy sauces. So I just use the braise to make the meat butter tender.
Tallow is DELICIOUS. It's what McDonald's USED to cook their fries in when their fries actually tasted good.
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
27 Nov 20
I find pork chops too dry as well. I'm glad you had a good dinner. We had a turkey dinner and ate too much. Have a great Friday and weekend!
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@LindaOHio (178701)
• United States
21 Nov
@porwest I could go for a breaded pork chop right about now or a piece of pizza. It's 4:10 am. lol
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@porwest (90876)
• United States
11h
@LindaOHio I have been wanting to at least make breaded pork steaks, and I have the stuff to do it. But I haven't done it yet. Soon, though.
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@RasmaSandra (79858)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
27 Nov 20
Happy Thanksgiving to you and that sounds really good, I made a roast chicken dinner today for me and my friends downstairs,
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