Pepper Pork Stew

2 pounds pork tenderloin 🍖, cut into 1” cubes

salt & pepper 

1/4 cup flour

1 cube of butter 🧈

5 cloves garlic 🧄 minced 

1 onion 🧅 chopped

2 carrots 🥕 sliced 

1 green, 1 red  & 1 yellow bell pepper 🫑 chopped

1 jalapeño 🌶️ chopped

3 tablespoons paprika

3 tablespoons tomato 🍅 paste

4 cups 🐓broth

1 bay leaf 🍃

2 russet potatoes🥔 cut into 1" cubes

Sprinkle pork with salt & pepper

Dredge pork in flour

Sauté pork in half the butter until browned

Remove pork & set aside 

Sauté onions, garlic, carrots & peppers in remaining butter until tender

Stir in paprika, 1 Tbsp flour, tomato paste, bay leaf, broth, pork and bring to a boil

Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes stirring occasionally

Add in potatoes, bring back to a boil, cover, and simmer for 30 more minutes

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Apple Pie

 

• 2 and 1/2 cups flour 
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup (1 cube) butter chilled and cubed
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening (crisco) chilled and cubed
• 1/4 cup  ice water
• 8 apples peeled and sliced
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg 

Crust Prep

• Mix the flour and salt together in a large bowl
• Cut in the butter and shortening until it resembles coarse meal 
• Roughly mix in 1 Tablespoon water at a time using a fork
• Separate pastry into 2 balls, create 2 disks, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour
• Using floured rolling pin, roll one pastry round on lightly floured surface into a round 2 inches larger than upside-down 9-inch pie plate
• Roll pastry loosely around rolling pin and unroll and ease into pie plate  
• Place apples, brown sugar, granulated sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl and combine thoroughly
• Spread apples into bottom pie crust. Dot with butter.
• Roll out other round, then roll loosely around rolling pin and place over filling 
• Fold edge of top crust under bottom crust, pressing on rim to seal and flute edges
• Cut 4 slits in pastry so steam can escape
• bake @350 for 40 mins

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