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Double Feature!! Pork Schnitzel and Huli Huli Chicken.

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The Wife made a pork schnitzel with an arugula & lemon citrus dressing and oven roasted veggies.  I've come to the conclusion that arugula really just tastes like weedwhacker mist when you're clearing the side of a raod.  Not sure why people eat it but it's pretty nasty.  This pork schnitzel, on the other hand, was the bomb.   The pork is pounded out and seasoned.  And this is how she does it.  3 eggs w 1 tsp. Dijon mustard for a wash, one dredge plate with a cup of flour and tsp of salt, a second dredge plate of one cup Italian bread crumbs and one cup plain panko bread crumbs.  Pat your tenderized chops with a paper towel to get any excess moisture off, dip it in the wash, make sure both sides are good, then dredge in the flour/salt, shake off the excess then back into the wash and then into the breadcrumb dredge.  Go ahead and make sure you press the chop down into the breadcrumbs then transfer into a hot oil.  I'm sur...

So we had BLPs for dinner. . .

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Randomly about a month and a half ago, we were having BLTs for dinner.  (Bacon Lettuce & Tomato for the uninitiated) And The Wife had sliced up some fresh peaches, as a side item.  So there I am, assembling my sammich, and seeing these beautiful sliced peaches out of the corner of my eye.  A thought arose, what if we put the peaches on the sammich?!  Brilliant, so I did it, and then accidentally put too much Dijon mustard.  And while I didn't get the sammich I wanted, I did get a hint of what I was trying to achieve, so this evening we revisited the plan.  It had evolved a little bit, I removed the tomato, added some balsamic onion jam that The Wife makes, and a little avocado. The one hiccup was that the peaches were not ready to eat so we used some home canned peaches that I smashed with the flat of a knife.  The flavors combined amazingly well, we were a little short on the balsamic onion jam but all in all an absolute su...