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"swooooop block!!! and ... " Posted by Karchita on 01-26-10 at 02:02 AM
Yum!! This turned out delicious. I loved the flavors in the sauce and it was very easy to prepare. I didn’t make any changes although I simply roasted some baby potatoes while I had the oven on instead of making mashed potatoes. Ok, so I’m lazy. We are not meat and potatoes style of eaters around here, so this was a bit out of my comfort zone. In fact, I don’t know that I have ever made pork chops more than once or twice even though I grew up eating them and the whole traditional meat and potatoes diet. I was veggie for about 7-8 years in my twenties and now usually just eat chicken or ham, sometimes bacon or ground turkey. Whatever the meat, it is almost always mixed in a casserole, soup or stir fry and never just a slab of meat. I thought about using chicken, but went for the pork. When I make it again, I’d like to try it with chicken. It would be lower fat (I would use skinless breasts, about 1/3 the calories of lean pork chops) and it might just cook in the skillet so I would skip the oven step. I think it would also be good with rice. (See how I easy it is for me to eliminate the meat and taters?) My sauce didn’t thicken like in your photos, but I think I didn’t boil it long enough before the oven. I interpreted the instructions as bring to a boil in 3-5 minutes and then stop, but I think I should have interpreted them as bring to a boil and then boil for 3-5 minutes. Or maybe my “BAM” was inadequate. I have so much extra sauce, I may grill some chicken and have it with that later this week. Thanks, MC! This was a lot of fun and I’ll be trying it again in the future, for sure. Bouquet by c2p