Fruit ‘N Filbert Pork Chops is easily my favorite recipe from A Treasury of Prize Winning Filbert Recipes, transforming a usually bland and dry pork loin into a delicious weeknight meal. The fruit is arguably central to the flavor profile, but the recipe still showcases the toasty bitterness of roasted hazelnuts. It’s also deliciously old……
Ingredient: chicken bouillon
Breast of Ozark Fryer Parisienne (adapted from Beta Sigma Phi International Cookbook, 1956)
The presumptious-sounding Breast of Ozark Fryer Parisienne is a simple and elegant chicken-and-toast entrée. The recipe is adapted from the 1956 Beta Sigma Phi International Cookbook, one of nearly a dozen smothered-in-sauce chicken recipes from the extensive chapter on “meats”. The good ladies of mid-century Beta Sigma Phi were perhaps too patrician to follow……
Shrimps alla Fra Diavolo (adapted from The Mystery Chef’s Never Fail Cook Book, 1949)
Shrimps alla Fra Diavolo is a foolproof pasta dish fancy enough for company but easy enough for a weeknight. Like all recipes in The Mystery Chef’s Never Fail Cook Book (1949), success is a function of the recipe, not the chef. Aside from basic knife skills and a little bit of patience, this delicious dish……