My time to cook, bake and grill is always limited.  It's spaghetti, ramen, pizza or a salad at our house most of the time.  When I do find myself with an evening to cook a nice meal I head to the grocery store and try to find something we don't get very often.  There's always a nice selection of raw meat to choose from in the meat section of our local grocery stores, but how do I prepare it?

Honestly, I went to the grocery store and walked up and down the meat aisle for something other than hamburger.  Pork, beef roast (not enough time for that), fish (um, NO), chicken that the butcher has seasoned?  Most of it sounds great!  I chose the above package of wild rice stuffed pork cutlets.  Perfect with mashed potatoes, gravy and peas.  Perfect except that there is NO instructions on the best way to prepare them.  That's the way it is with any of the packaged fresh raw meats.

In fact, if you think about it any of the meat you buy that is fresh from the grocery store butcher doesn't come with cooking/baking instructions.  I was going to ask the butcher but felt like an idiot asking how long and at what temp I should bake them.  I went home and googled "how to cook a stuffed pork cutlet".  But, the only thing that came up was "how to cook a stuffed pork CHOP".  So, I took a picture and texted Ken.  He told me what I "thought" I should do, a 350-375 oven for about an hour.

I would LOVE it if they would start packaging their fresh meat selections with instructions for preparation.  Anybody with me?  Oh, and while we're on the subject, what is a "cutlet" anyhow?

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