One of my mother’s most memorable recipes. I’ve included it in every cookbook to which I’ve contributed. The pork chops will fall right off the bone (unless, of course, you use boneless)!
Ingredients:
6 or 8 pork chops, 1” thick
1 cup water
1 onion, chopped
2 Tbsp. vinegar
1 cup ketchup
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
4 Tbsp. brown sugar
4 Tbsp. lemon juice
Sear chops on both sides. Combine remaining ingredients and heat; add chops. Cook slowly 1 to 1-1/2 hours. Place chops in baking pan. Heat in 375˚ oven for 15 minutes. Serve over rice.
About The Authors
Sarah Addison Allen has a B.A. in Literature and lives in western North Carolina. Her books include Garden Spells, published by Bantam Dell in Fall 2007.
Susan W. Alvis is an English teacher and writer. She and her husband, a Navy Chaplain, live in Annapolis, Maryland, where they are raising six children and being nicely managed by two golden retrievers.
Sandra Chastain, a native Georgian, is the author of 44 novels. Many of her books have been featured selections in the Doubleday Book Club. She has twice been selected a finalist in Favorite Book of the Year by the 8000+ members of Romance Writers of America.
Betty Cordell was born and raised in Dublin, Georgia. She is published in the magazine Angels On Earth, the Georgia Writers Anthology, On My Mind, Volume IV, and by BelleBooks in More Sweet Tea (2005) and On Grandma’s Porch (2007).
Martha Crockett is an award-winning, best-selling author who has written for Silhouette Books (as Martha Shields) as well as BelleBooks. She has been a finalist in numerous contests—both as a published and unpublished writer—including RWA’s Golden Heart and RITA contests, and Georgia Romance Writer’s Maggie contest. Her fourth book, Husband Found, won Romantic Times’ Reviewers Choice Award for Best Silhouette Romance in 1999.
Susan Goggins has written romance novels for Harlequin and Zebra. Her romantic fiction has won awards such as West Houston RWA’s Emily award, Virginia Romance Writers’ Fool for Love contest, and the MICA award from Northwest Houston RWA’s Lone Star contest. She also writes horror novels under the pseudonym Raven Hart.
Bert Goolsby is a retired judge in South Carolina. His published fiction includes The Box With the Green Bow and Ribbon (Saint Anthony Messenger, December 1996), Her Own Law (Xlibris 1998), Humanity, Darling (iUniverse 2000), Sweet Potato Biscuits and Other Stories (Cork Hill Press 2003), and Harpers’ Joy (Grace Abraham Publishing 2005).
Maureen Hardegree wasn’t born in the South. She fell in love with the region’s rich history and people when she moved to Louisiana at the age of twelve. She’s a past president of Georgia Romance Writers and has won GRW’s prestigious Maggie award. Her short stories have been published in BelleBooks’ Sweet Tea anthology and Mossy Creek series.
Lynda Holmes lives in Flowery Branch, Georgia. She is an instructor at North Georgia College & State University in the Department of Teacher Education.
Ellen Birkett Morris is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Her writing has appeared in The Girls’ Book of Friendship (Little, Brown & Company), The Girls’ Book of Love (Little, Brown & Company), The Writing Group Book (Chicago Review Press), Nesting: It’s a Chick Thing (Workman) and Hidden Kitchens (Rodale).
A lifelong son of the South, Mike Roberts was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and lives in Powder Springs, Georgia, with his wife Lisa, their two daughters, six cats and one dog. Mike is an award-winning journalist and technical writer. “Air Raid, Southern Style” is his second published short story.
Michelle Roper was born and raised in the North Georgia Mountains. She’s been married to her wonderful husband, Jack, for over twenty-five years, and they’re the parents of three lovely children. When Michelle isn’t writing, she’s out walking her three Siberian Huskies, or rather they’re walking her.
Julia Horst Schuster is a founder of the Emerald Coast (Florida) Chapter of Romance Writers of America.
Susan Sipal is published in fiction and nonfiction through essays, short stories, and a novel. She is best known for her analysis of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series and has conducted workshops or had papers presented both nationally and internationally. You can visit her at SusanSipal.com.
Debra Leigh Smith, a native Georgian, is the nationally bestselling, award-winning author of 35 novels in romance, women’s fiction, and general list fiction. Her 1996 novel, A Place to Call Home, made the New York Times list.
Clara Wimberly has published more than 20 books in a variety of work, from gothic to historical, mainstream and suspense. Clara writes in a one-room cabin, built for her by her husband and sons, in the woods near her home.
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