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Black Pepper Seared Pork Tenderloin

I don’t eat a lot of traditional American-style meals where there is a meat dish, a starch dish and a salad.  Instead, I find myself preferring dishes where I can put all the vegetables, meats and starches into a single dish.  That might be one reason I recommend a lot of Asian recipes and Italian recipes – then I can make stir fries and pastas to my heart’s delight!  Every so often, however, I’ll crave a cut of meat.  As I often do when this happens, I reached for some pork tenderloin.

I’ve already extolled the virtues of pork in my previous entry on Roasted Pork Tenderloin w/ Prosciutto, so I won’t belabor the point.  Suffice it to say, pork is delicious and undervalued.  Eating Pork Tenderloin is like  buying Amazon and Apple stock in 2002 – one day everyone will want want a piece of it, but until then, relish your insider knowledge.

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A Beef Saute for Two

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This is a really fun and delicious dish that is essentially a main course in itself.   The key to its success is being able to multitask successfully.  Because I prefer not to prep ingredients ahead of time, because it usually creates more dishes for me to wash (and I’m lazy), you can get yourself into a juggling act.  For first time makers of this, I do recommend prepping at least the vegetables before hand.   For everyone else, have some fun with this one and see how much you can juggle.  It’s a real treat!

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Make a Pan Sauce by Deglazing

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You cook up a piece of meat or seafood.  It sears/ cooks in your pan and when you remove your protein, it leaves behind a few brown, charred pieces.  What do you do?  Before you decide to clean these little pieces off with your sponge, stop and think about the delicious sauce you could be making with these non-descript pieces of flavor concentrate.

Deglazing a pan is a delicious way to create a sauce for the meat or seafood dish you just made.   This will turn your plain steak, dry chicken breast, or vanilla piece of fish into a scrumptious crowd-pleaser.  Although “deglazing” may sound intimidating at first, the process is quite simple.

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Hanbagu (Japanese Burger Dish)

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When I first heard about Hanbagu, I couldn’t help but think that the Japanese had chosen poorly for once.  They took cars and gave us Toyota.  They took baseball and we got Ichrio and Matsui.  And they took beef, and we got Kobe.  Let’s be honest, they’re very good at beating America at its own game (at least until Joey Chestnut came along).  But to supplant the great American hamburger – that’s just too audacious, isn’t it?

Fortunately, this dish doesn’t really complete with our great American classic.  It doesn’t sit on a bun, but on a bed of rice.  It’s not topped with ketchup & mustard, but instead with a tangy sauce (a Worcestershire & ketchup-based BBQ sauce).   Vegetables can sit on the side, or be cooked directly into the sauce.

The Hanbagu is not better or worse than the American burger – it’s just different.  But man, is it delicious!

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