Safe Sick Kid Dinner

Mashed potatoes and spinach.

Mashed Potatoes
7 leftover cherry potatoes (from Trader Joe's)
parsley
1/4c goat's milk

Boil potatoes in goat's milk with parsley pulled from stems. When warm, mash with a fork.

Sautee spinach. Drain water, drizzle with expensive olive oil, salt, pepper.

Safe Pork chops

Delicious, simple pork chop dinner. Made and left in the oven while fetching a loved one from the airport, this made for a perfect and genuinely safe latenight dinner.

Pork chops patted dry and coated in salt, pepper, and a dash of turmeric. Browned on the stovetop, then baked at 350 for 20 minutes until cooked through (but not dry).

Potatotes boiled, drizzled in expensive olive oil, salt, pepper. Broccoli rabe sautéed then given the same treatment. I dipped my pork in apple sauce.

Safe Purple pork and potatoes

A lovely square meal made for 1 to close a long hard week.

1 pork chop
1/2 shallot
splash of olive oil
1 purple potato (set to baking as soon as I got home, allowing it a good hour plus of hot oven time)
1 broccoli stalk

I always feel best when my plate has sections for the elements - meat, vegetable, starch - and this diet has really enhanced that love. Had a lovely chat at work with a couple men who cook about sauce, and shallots came up. What a perfect garlic replacement! Sautee the shallots in oil until they're translucent. Sear the pork chop in their pan. Remove pork once seared and transfer to the hot oven for 10 minutes or so to cook through. The potato will be well baked by the time you throw the pork in the oven. Take this opportunity to remove its tin foil and get its elegant purple skin crisped. Steam the broccoli. Drizzle on some expensive extra virgin olive oil (I bought Merula, from Spain, primarily for the elegant raven on its tin can), salt, pepper. Burst open the potato and give it the same treatment. Stir your oil-shallot "sauce" and pour over pork. Revel in the purple of it all.

Recommended context: cook with Grizzly Bear's Friend EP spinning on the turntable, a fat joint at the ready, a Peace spiritual soda on the counter (see soda recipe), and plans for a fire on the beach to honor a full and glorious moon.