Pork Chops

Pork chops can be bland and tough if not prepared correctly...  or they can be fabulous and flavorful! 

For Dan's birthday a few years ago, I made some a-mazing stuffed pork chops.  The downside (or the upside if you like cooking as much as I do), I was in the kitchen preparing them for at least two hours!  So instead of that today I give you two very simple, favorite pork chop recipes.

Pork Chop Supper

Herb-Crusted Pork Chops - I skip making my own breadcrumbs and use panko breadcrumbs instead.

Coconut Curry Noodles

I have slowly been discovering the food blog "Mel's Kitchen Cafe."  I always seem to be surprised and delighted by what a find there!  (I can't wait to try out theses Brookies.... an amazing idea!)

melskitchencafe.com

In December, two other friends and I got together to make soup.  We each made three family sized servings of different soups.  The soups were great, but what I enjoyed the most was the leftovers we had for lunch!  I needed to know how to make Red Coconut Curry Noodles!

I made the recipe with regular linguini instead of rice noodles (because I'm cheap like that) and without the broccoli coleslaw (because Dan believes that broccoli coleslaw is a four letter word).   Since I used regular noodles I added an extra half a cup of chicken broth.

Enjoy!

Vegetable Tian

The past few months have been a blur!  Thanksgiving, Christmas, my girl's first birthday! I haven't posted lately, but I have been cooking!  A lot!  So hopefully I will be posting more frequently in the coming weeks.

This time of year I find myself eating cupcake after cupcake, but craving fresh fruits and vegetables!  This week I made Ina Garten's recipe for Vegetable Tian and it did not disappoint!  Though I didn't have fresh thyme, I used some that I had dried from our garden and the dish still tasted fresh and delicious.