By the time he got to RoastedPorkTenderloin with Dried Cranberry and Apple Stuffing and Cranberry-White Wine Reduction Sauce, Bill had bought a new meat thermometer, digital, with protruding wires and flashing lights that made it look as though he'd lifted the whole apparatus from an intensive care unit.
And now here he was on RoastedPorkTenderloin night with his dried cranberries and his apples and his big damn cookbook, and he was holding a measuring cup up to the light, pouring wine precisely to the three-quarters mark, and he glanced over and saw the expression on my face.
Harvested in the fall and winter months, Brussels sprouts are the perfect accompaniment to a cold weather dish such as roasted chicken, seared fish or porktenderloin.