A Meal Planning Concept


Quick Meals Planner: Comfort Tuesday

Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers | Quick Homemade Pasta | Pork Chops in Creamy Peppercorn Sauce

Walter Raymond's Sweet and Sour Cucumbers

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:6
Category:Salad
Meal:Comfort Tuesday (Quick Meals Planner)
2largecucumbers, sliced
1.5cupsugar, granulated
1.5cupvinegar, cider
2Tbonions, sliced
1pinchsalt and pepper to taste
 

Cut cucumbers into thin slices. Dissolve sugar in vinegar on low heat. Thinly slice red onion. Add cucumbers, onions and liquid in a bowl and let marinate for 1 hour. Salt and Pepper to taste.

Quick Homemade Pasta

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:2
Category:Starch / Pasta
Meal:Comfort Tuesday (Quick Meals Planner)
0.75cupflour, all-purpose
1largeegg
 

Place flour and egg in food processor. Pulse until the flour forms small beads. Turn off processor and squeeze a little of the dough between your fingers,; if it forms a ball it is ready. Dump into a plastic bag or plastic wrap and form it into a ball. Refrigerate the pasta for 20 minutes. Roll out on a floured surface and cut into strips. Cook in salted, boiling water for 3-4 minutes.

Note: Pasta will swell up when it is cooked so be sure to roll it as thin as you can.

This makes 2 servings as the starch in a meal. Make one recipe per person if you are just serving the pasta as the meal. This makes 1/3 lb of fresh pasta.

Pork Chops in Creamy Peppercorn Sauce

Recipe Summary
Complexity:Easy
Serves:4
Category:The Other Meat Entrée
Meal:Comfort Tuesday (Quick Meals Planner)
1Tbpepper, fresh cracked
4mediumpork chops, boneless center cut
6ozchicken broth
1Tbbutter, salted
3ozcream, heavy
2TbWorcestershire sauce, white
6mediummushrooms, sliced
1Tbcranberries, dried
1pinchsalt to taste
 

Sprinkle pork chops with pepper to taste; brown pork chops in heavy, ovenproof pan. Place in 350-degree oven for 10-15 minutes. Remove pan from oven, remove chops to plate, deglaze pan with chicken broth, and add, mushrooms, Worcestershire sauce, butter and cream. Add cranberries, salt to taste. Reduce by 1/4th. Place chops back in pan, flip, and serve with gravy on top.

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