pork chops with cheddar and honey brown beer

an extremely simple dinner! 

after tenderizing the pork chops (prior to owning a meat tenderizer i used a fork and stabbed the hell out of meat), i spiced them (in this instance, simply adobo) and pan fried them in olive oil, as always. prior to pan frying the pork, i cut red potatoes. after sprinkling them with a little garlic salt, i placed them on a sheet pan with olive oil to bake at 350 degrees in the oven. growing up, my mother cooked very simple meals involving meat and potatoes. she has this way of perfectly salting, and using no other ingredient, to make the dish. in the end you were fed an authentically flavored, wholesome and filling meal.

*for this very plain pork chop and roasted potato dinner, i decided to make a sharp cheddar "gravy" by melting sharp cheddar cheese bits in a small amount of milk simmered over a very low heat (*take care not to let this mixture boil and burn the cheese. my burner is a bit warm and i periodically lifted and moved the pot to maintain heat.)

* reader tip: "treat the cheese as if you are melting chocolate!"