Pork chops

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, March 8, 2009

LINDSEY CONTINUES TO SEARCH the freezer and the refrigerator; there's a burst of Spring cleaning going on. What should she find but four big pork chops sent down a while back by our son. She pan-fried them, then finished them in the oven in the pan in which she'd roasted potatoes and cloves of unpeeled garlic.

To go with them, some pickled sour cherries. Pretty damn delicious. Green salad.

Nero d'Avila, "Epicuro," 2006