I bought a pork steak last week at the grocery store. It was something you could get all the time in St. Louis and I used to have them regularly. You see them once in a while here, but not all the time. I got one to have over the weekend. I sort of stew them with fruit and a little barbecue sauce. Various people in the family make pork ribs with orange or lemon slices. I've done pork steaks with those and sliced apple works well too. This time I had some pears and tried that. I see why people don't often use them in cooking anymore. Fresh pears often have a little gritty texture in spots and I had a little of that in the finished product. But overall it worked well. The pear soaked up some of the spice from the barbecue sauce and was pretty zippy. If I try using pear again sometime, I think I'd use a milder sauce. But it was good anyway.
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