Monday, August 30, 2010

Crock Pot Monday: Sour Cream Pork Chops

Yes, it's yet another installment in. . . . . . . Adventures in Slow Cooking!  

Today started our regular fall schedule - and Monday is our busiest day of the week.  No problem, thinks I!  Time to whip out. . . . . 
Sour Cream Pork Chops (from Allrecipes.com)

First step:  dredge the pork chops in flour, and brown in a bit of oil


Second step:  Ignore the dog, sitting pathetically at your feet, drooling over said pork chops.

Third step:  Put pork chops in slow cooker, and top with sliced onions.
Fourth step:  Add 2 c. of chicken boullion.  (Hint:  I have fallen in love with "Better than Boullion", it's a chicken base with NO MSG.  Yummy!)

Let cook for 7-8 hours.  I used boneless chops, so mine only needed about 6 hours.

Fifth Step:  Take these sweet girls to ballet.


Sixth step:  Convince your husband to finish the recipe, because you realized you won't be home in time to finish the recipe.

Only kidding.  Kind of.  Here's what he did:  Remove the pork chops from the crock pot.  Mix together 2 T. of flour and 8 oz sour cream, stir into crock pot, cook on Hi for 10 minutes.  Make a bunch of egg noodles. . . ..  .
And serve the yummy pork chops for dinner!

And the reviews:

Taste:  ALL of my kids gave it a HUGE thumbs up!  Y. even commented how good they were . . . do you think it was because he helped?  ;-)

Ease of prep:  OK, really it was pretty easy.  HOWEVER - I'm spoiled after that tortellini recipe!  Seriously, I will make these again - but NOT on a Monday night, when I don't have any time to fool with making a sauce in the 30 minutes between when I get home and the boys leave for Boy Scouts.

Overall?  We have a winner!  Definitely adding this one to my permanent menu.

Stay tuned for our next installment. . . . . Slow Cooker French Toast Casserole!  Who's coming over?

4 comments:

Karen said...

Supper looks good :) Two questions (1) where did you buy that chicken base (grocery store or specialty store?) and (2) do you happen to know off-hand if it contains soy????? Soy allergy plus MSG sensitivity at our house makes for lots of homemade stock...

Heather said...

Hi Karen - thanks for the comment!

The base is available - gasp! - at Wal-Mart, near the bouillion.

I did look though, and it has "Hydrolyzed soy protein". So sad!

Betty Marie said...

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Lindsey said...

Mrs Henriques,
We made this the other night and LOVED it! Thanks for sharing!

Lindsey