"Gill Murray" wrote in message
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I was really stuck for dinner tonight. Our local grocery is going out of
business. The only edible-looking meat was a package of 6 cheap-cut pork
chops. Not wanting to do a 20 mile round trip to Publix, I bought them.
Since the store didn't have dish-soap ( believe that!) I went to the Dollar
store. That is the grand total of shopping in Polk City, FL!!

Anyway, I found a 7 oz can of La Costena Chipotle peppers in Adobo sauce.
Net carbs, 6 in the can.

Soooo I invented. In a dutch oven I put one onion in thick slices. The
equivalent of 2-3 cloves of garlic (too lazy to use the real thing, so buy
them crushed). I browned the chops on each side, and put them in the dutch
oven. Opened the can of peppers and sauce and dumped it on top. It looked
a bit low on liquid, so *forced* myself to open a bottle of Mich Ultra
amber beer. Put 1/3 cup in pot and drank the rest.

I sat it in the oven at 375, then 325, for a couple of hours. Served it
with cauliflower in cheese sauce, some Texas beans ( Hubby can handle
about 1/4-1/3 cup without spiking). Heated a couple of low-carb
tortillas............and it was great. Hot, spicy and relatively low-carb.
(BTW, he also got shrimp cocktail, with Saturday's left-over steamed
shrimp.)

Just an idea of how one can create something good when under pressure. I
think the rest of the meat and sauce will turn into another meal!! Maybe
soupy!

I had to learn to cook like that when I lived on Cape Cod. Yes, there were
a few grocery stores within a few miles of the house, but I usually shopped
at the commissary because most things were much cheaper there. Once the
only good looking meat they had was ham. Lots of ham! Couldn't always get
what I wanted in the way of produce either. They also put a limit on what
we could buy and that was no more than 3 of any item. I don't know what
people with large families did. The store was only stocked on a regular
basis on Friday nights. Saturday morning was the best time to go shopping
and the only time you could get good, fresh produce.