Comments on Pie a la Mona: Pork Chops In A Raspberry Plum Sauce With Sage and...

Hi chef lb and thanks Kalyn (loving WHB!).The sauc...

2007-10-01T21:52:00.000-04:00

Hi chef lb and thanks Kalyn (loving WHB!).
The sauce makes enough for 6 porkchops, I'd say. Maybe even more. I usually cook for 2, so my leftover sauce was frozen (it freezes well).
Prune plums are indeed dried into prunes. Their sugar content is higher and they tend to retain their moisture in the process of becoming prunes.
I think the prune plums did make a sweeter "plumier" sauce so if you have them locally while they're in season (currently or just out of season) I would recommend using them. But, the black prunes, more readily available, tasted really good too. I thought I'd produce the sauce with them because of that. But, it was a handful of a little over the hill prune plums which inspired me to use them up by making a sauce.

I thought I left a comment here earlier, I must be...

2007-10-01T19:01:00.000-04:00

I thought I left a comment here earlier, I must be losing it! I don't think I've heard of prune plums. Do you think that just means they're the type of plums you'd make prunes out of? Anyway the sauce sounds like it would be great with the pork!

How much sauce does this produce - for how many ch...

2007-10-01T12:50:00.000-04:00

How much sauce does this produce - for how many chops?
Looks great,and so does everything else.
Your my first blog I've been to.
Love the pics and doggies.

Thanks for your WHB entry, this sounds great! See ...

2007-09-28T15:36:00.000-04:00

Thanks for your WHB entry, this sounds great! See you for the roundup.