Dad's Chop House

As a kid, the perfect ending to a good day was when I'd walk into the kitchen at about six o'clock, after a long afternoon of backyard pyromania and brain-melting Q*bert sessions, and see the big Pyrex baking dish on the counter. Inside that dish were four or five or six pork chops -- bone in, sourced from our local Safeway -- marinating in white vinega…