Redeye Glazed Pork Tenderloin with Black-Eyed Peas

And finally – a fabulous recipe from Linton Hopkins of Restaurant Eugene. It ran in Bon Appetit back in February 2012. You could just do the peas and tenderloin if making the gravy seems like too much, but for a meal when you want to impress someone with fabulous Southern flavors, this would be a beautiful thing to make. It’s complicated, but so representative of the kind of cooking that’s made Hopkins an Atlanta treasure.

Caramelized Onion and Swiss Popovers

Speaking of gorgeous onions, how great that the onions have not succumbed to the torrential downpours? Love this recipe from Southern Living’s May 2013 issue. Hope someone out there likes to bake besides me and the Mellow Bellies Rogue Baker.

This recipe will use up a bunch of onions and they are wonderful in more than just these popovers. Use them in sandwiches, top anything you grill, stir them into sour cream and make what a friend calls “Czechoslovakian Onion Dip” (the joke being that it’s so exotic that it’s far beyond the old standard French onion dip), put them on any kind of flatbread as a crostini ….. the possibilities are endless. It’s a great thing to have in your refrigerator.