Cooking: Week 4 - Pan Fry - Panfried Pork Shoulder Steaks

Week: 4
Theme: Pan fry
Dish: Panfried pork shoulder steaks

We really like panfrying. I bought Ofer a cast iron skillet as a belated Christmas present and we knew we wanted to break it in with this challenge. Whenever we have a good piece of meat, we try to minimize what spices we use. For this, we only used a generous helping of salt and pepper. And the basically cooked it on each side till it was done. We check the temperature using a meat thermometer before serving.

I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. It kind of felt like I was eating a steak with a different flavor profile. It was really satisfying eating it with a fork and knife. They were really cheap too, only a couple of bucks each. Very good.

We also made a homemade tomato sauce. It was a pretty simple recipe. We just eye balled the amount of ingredients.

We used:

• 1 onion
• 1 head of garlic
• A few handfuls of mushrooms
• 2 spicy peppers
• 2 cans of whole tomatoes
• 1 can of tomato sauce
• 1 small can of tomato paste
• A few stalks of celery
• A bunch of parsley
• Two bay leaves
• A bunch of basil
• Some smoked cayenne
• Salt and pepper

We just browned the onions and then added the other veggies. Then we just dumped everything else in. We took out the basil and bay leaves in the end and just left the sauce chunky.