I'm Going To Throw Some Ingredients Into the Pan...

mmm... fresh rosemary....

Fennel, rosemary, garlic and lemon zest... Evil Chef Mom's holy trinity. What do you mean a trinity is only three? Holy Quadruple doesn't sound so great...so we are going to say trinity because it's my blog and I can do what I want. Nah nah nah nah nah! This is soooo much fun.

Pork chops and grape tomatoes and you've got dinner. This isn't a real recipe this is an adjust to your own taste/do your own thing recipe. I know that fennel, rosemary, garlic and lemon zest are all very strong flavors but they work wonderfully together. Here's what you do...

Over high heat pour some olive oil into a pan (I'm thinking a couple tablespoons). When the oil is almost smoking put a package of grape tomatoes into the pan. Let cook until tomatoes start to burst or make them burst by pressing a spatula on top of them. Just let those tomatoes know who the boss is in this relationship! Then add garlic,rosemary, fennel and lemon zest until the garlic gets "that smell" and a nice translucent color. Take off heat and set aside. Heat another pan and add olive oil.When the olive oil is nice and hot, add pork chops and some salt and pepper. Cook until the chops are almost to your liking. Then add the tomato mixture to the pork chops and add a little butter (2 pats) to the pan to finish. Serve.

This would go really well with the rosemary potatoes on white on rice's blog, but I was craving rice so that's what we had. *shrug* but man those potatoes looked so good.