Did you ever see that Simpson's episode where Lisa is talking about how she's going to go vegetarian?

And Homer's like, what, you mean sausages?

You mean pork chops? You mean bacon?

And she's like, Dad, those are all from the same animal.

And he's just like, sure, some magical animal.

Hey, there are listeners, future callers, and cooking enthusiasts.

Welcome to Dinner S.O.S.

The show where we help you save dinner or whatever you're cooking.

I'm Chris Morocco, food director of

Bonapatite and Epicurious. Today's caller Jen lives in New Jersey with her family and

they're all very into food.

We are really big cooks.

My daughter actually, she's soaking cashews

as we speak.

She left the house and was like,

no one touched my cashews, I making milk later we were like oh my

gosh that we really are like but even though Jen is herself a highly competent and

creative cook she's stymied when it comes to one specific protein.

For some reason, no matter what I do with pork,

it's awful.

It's tough, it's too dry, I could put it in some kind of a crock pot situation and somehow that comes out

dry that you're like I don't understand how I went too far with that like I need like a

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