Oh, good old pinterest. Thank goodness there's one place to find 12,000,000,000,000,000,001 amazing ideas that you'll never end up doing! After being like, WHYYYYY do I have 5,000 things pinned that I've never done?! I decided to make 2 new boards: Done it! and Recipe's This Week. It's helped inspire me a little to actually try some of the amazing things I see on pinterest. Check out my boards here: http://www.pinterest.com/alexschell727/
Ryan is nice enough to do the grocery shopping on Mondays, but his idea of staples and mine are a little different. He also likes to buy things I wouldn't even think to buy, like... pork chops. A lot. Don't get me wrong, they're OK. But, I think they're usually just ok. And easy to overcook. And hard to think of creative ways to make (especially since the stuffed variety make me want to barf). So, good old pinterest to the rescue, and I found this recipe, which sounded yummy (and EASY- yay)! http://www.favfamilyrecipes.com/2012/11/easy-crock-pot-pork-chops.html (Ryan and Trent don't like ranch dressing, so make sure you keep the ranch mix ingredient a secret from them, please)! (insert sneaky laugh).
The recipe also calls for cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup. I don't care for mushrooms, so I just doubled the cream of chicken. And, since I mentioned staples before, let me tell you about one of my favorites. I USED to consider canned cream of chicken soup a staple, but found a fantastic recipe for it. (guess where)? It's quick, easy, healthy, and can be make gluten free, if that's an issue your household has (as mine does) http://www.milehimama.com/how-to-make-cream-of-chicken-soup/
Know this recipe, do it, love it. Just don't make a big batch and try to freeze it. It'll be lumpy and weird when you try to use it.
Anyway, back to the pork chops. The ones we had were SUPER thick, so I let them cook awhile and then cut them in half. They ended up being incredibly tender (didn't even need a knife) and very tasty. Trent was disappointed there weren't seconds available (and didn't even notice the ranch flavor that he doesn't like). I served them with some giant "baked" (microwaved) potatoes (dinner prep time was cut short by the arrival and overstay of some vacuum salesmen- no I don't want a $1300 vacuum, but come on in and waste an hour + of my day, won't you? They were nice kids, but I wish I had just not opened the door. I'll be putting up a no soliciting sign soon)! As far as pork chops go, they were pretty darn good, definitely better than just ok! And, of course, who doesn't love a nice, toss it in the crock pot and forget it recipe. The only thing was that, due to my soup being frozen prior to using (I did heat it up in a saucepan, but it was chunky and weird), the sauce wasn't usable as a gravy as the recipe suggests. I'll make it with fresh soup next time and update how it turns out.
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