The Classic Sandwich I’d Never Heard Of

Tonight is the annual auction fundraiser at Summit Montessori and I am probably somewhere bidding on a gourmet sauces basket. So here is a recipe I made back in March, but never blogged about, Chicago-Style Pork Chop Sandwiches. When I did my cookbook-a-month project last year one of the books I considered was Matty Matheson1‘s Home Style Cookery. I’ve read though quite a bit of it an a lot of the recipes are ambitious, but all of the ones I’ve made so far have been delicious. I was not aware of this Chicago delicacy until I read about it in the cookbook, but I will probably seek one out the next time I am in the Windy city. Whenever I go to get one of these, I can smell the onions from down the street—piles of caramelized onions covering seared pork chops, keeping them warm like the belly of a mama bear. I love the kind of spots that can hand you a sandwich in less than a minute flat, and the whole family instantly has food that’s eaten on the hood of the car, eating and chewing away…