Some comforting chops

  During the holidays my mother and I went to England, unfortunately, she had to go back to work for a little while. So in order to cheer her up when she returned, i decided to make her dinner.
 I spent about 2 hours going around the supermarket picking out different things and trying to figure out what i felt like making...this is what i ended up getting :

- a box of shitake mushrooms (they are a bit expensive, but very tasty and meaty)
- baby carrots
- a bunch of asparagus
- some parsley
- a couple of clementines
- rasberries
- pea shoots
- lettuce gems
- a lemon
- 2 pork chops
- a pink lady apple
- butter

 I started by making a salad using the pea shoots, raspberries, and quartered lettuce gems.
 I then made the vinaigrette by mixing together the juice of a clementine, 2 table spoons of olive oil, a table spoon of lemon juice, a few crushed raspberries, salt, pepper, and the zest of half a clementine and quarter of a lemon.

 I then moved on to the making of the Pièce de résistance...

 I started by cleaning the mushrooms and the other vegetables. After having peeled the end of the asparagus (that nasty bit that you usually can't eat is actually really nice if you peel it), i put them to steam with the carrots.

 I chopped the mushrooms, and peeled the apple which i then chopped into fairly thin sticks, sort of like matches (don't forget to squeeze lemon juice on the apple so it doesn't turn brown). I than put the pork chops in a pan with butter, and did the same for the mushrooms. Pork takes quite a long time to cook, about 10 minutes, but it all depends on the thickness of the chop...

 Once the vegetables had steamed up nicely, i put them in some iced water to stop the cooking and then added them to the pan with the mushrooms, extra butter (of course, after all I am French) and some chopped parsley. As soon as the pork chops were ready (the juices should be clear, with no blood), I deglazed the pan with clementine juice.

 And that was it, my mother arrived, i plated everything up (the presentation wasn't the best), and we just tucked in !