We were gone for a week to Winnipeg for Dean to meet my family for the first time and the trip was a success! He has been accepted by my mother and siblings...phew.
We left just as the #worldcup started so we recorded an entire weeks worth of games and have been binge watching them the entire weekend. I am currently watching the England vs Uruguay game...Go #Rooney !!!! He made his first world cup goal! To add to the goings on in the world cup world let me just say...WTF #spain! You won 4 years ago and just completely fell apart! You can't keep using the same tactics! And #ronaldo WTF too! As Dean says "he shits the bed when he plays for his country" get you shit together!!
Tonight was the first night I've cooked in over a week. The week before we left was crazy and the week we were gone we either ate out or my Mommy cooked for us. We decided to try a different meat this time since we've been eating a lot of chicken lately so we bought pork chops. I found a recipe on Allrecipe.com for pork chops and scallop potatoes cooked in one dish. Seemed simple and easy and it was. My complaint is it was a total of 2 hours to make and the pork chops needed more flavouring. Now don't let the 'cooking in one dish' fool you. Yes it all goes into the oven in one dish, but you also need a pan to brown the pork chops in, plus a pan to make the scallop potato sauce so not a true one dish meal.
I ended up having to make the damn sauce twice and I wish I could blame it on the recipe, but it was because I apparently can't read. I measured out the chicken broth wrong then just kept adding more because it didn't look like enough until finally I had no idea how much I added so I started again.
For the making of the dish you take butter, chicken broth, salt, pepper and flour, mix it all together and bring to a boil. Next you brown the pork chops in a pan with butter. In a casserole dish you layer the bottom with thinly sliced potatoes, drizzle the sauce over the potatoes and place the pork chops right on top. Bake for 1 hour covered then another 30 minutes uncovered. Simple and easy, practically no maintenance so lots of time to watch soccer.
I will be making this dish again next time I will be starting earlier than 8pm and when I brown the pork chops in the pan I'll be adding some garlic and probably onions. I'll also be baking cheese on top of the scallop potatoes (I added some in after I served the potatoes). with some tweaking this will be an awesome dish. The original is good, just a bit bland.
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