Huge Pork Chops and Strange Little Corn Things

Kerri spent a fair amount of time shopping at Borough Market on Friday afternoon. Amongst other things, she bought ostrich steaks (which we took to a barbecue at my sister’s this afternoon – delicious), “fresh” garlic, Jersey Royal potatoes, various other vegetables and some very impressive-looking pork chops from the Ginger Pig.

We decided to marinate these in a mixture of olive oil, garlic, oregano, lemon juice, salt and pepper. So we mixed all of these ingredients up in a large freezer bag, then added the chops, sealed the bag and rubbed the marinade into the chops inside the bag before leaving them for an hour or so. While we were waiting, we ate some very interesting little things that Kerri had also found at the market… these were “Spanish Spicy Corn”, which were corn kernels that had been expanded somehow, but not in the same way that popcorn is popped:

After the chops had been in the bag marinating for a while, we heated up a little oil in a frying pan, then fried the chops for a few minutes on each side before popping them into a pre-heated (to 180C) oven for ten minutes. They were really good; the meat itself was really delicious and the flavours from the marinade lifted and added to it. We served them with some plainly steamed Jersey Royals which were lovely and some unidentified greens which we sautéed in garlic and butter and turned out brilliantly.