Busy Day Pork Chops with Never Fail Scalloped Potatoes

Well,  had a busy day yesterday. Much busier than I anticipated! So I needed something that didn't take too long to prepare.

Busy Day Pork Chops
Ingredients:
1/4 cup fat free milk
1/4 cup grated pamesan (or the stuff in the plastic shaker works!)
1/4 cup seasoned bread crumbs (I made 2pcs of toast and then crumbled it up)
1/4 tsp garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste
4 boneless loin chops (although you can really use any cut)
cooking spray

Directions:
1. Preheat over to 375. Place milk in a shallow bowl. In another sallow bowl, combine the cheese, bread crumbs, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Dip pork chops in milk, then coat with crumb mixture.

2. Place on a baking sheet coated with cooking spra: sprits chips with cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40min  or until meat thermometer reads 160 degrees.

Now I only had 3 chops but this recipe is for 4 and can be doubled as well. Also I can always find good deals on chops. Our local store often has family packs on sale and I divide and freeze as necessary and they've even run a buy one get one free sale at times.



My mom brought me some potatoes from her garden and I wanted to use them so I decided to make Never-Fail Scalloped Potatoes.

Never-Fail Scalloped Potatoes
Ingredients:
2 Tbs butter
3Tbs all-purpose four
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper (or to taste on salt and pepper)
1-1/2 cups fat-free milk
1/2 cup shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
1-3/4 pounds potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced, (about 5 medium) and you can leave the peel on if you like
1 medium onion, halved and thinly sliced (optional)

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small nonstick sillet, melt butter. Stir in the flour, salt and pepper until smooth; gradually add the milk. Bring to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes oruntil thickened. Removefrom the heat; stir in cheese until blended.

2. Place half of the potatoes in a 1-1/2-qt. baking dish coated with cooking spray; layer with half of the onion and cheese sauce. Repeat layers.

3. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Uncover; bake 10-15 minutes loger or until bubbly and potatoes are tender.

TIP: to shorten bake time boil potaoes for 2-3 min then place in dish to bake. While I sliced the potatoes I had the water on so it would be boiling and I could simply put the potatoes in right away.



I quickly prepared the chops (mine were frozen and I microwaved them on high for 4 minutes to slightly dethaw) and put them in the oven. I then started the potatoes. They baked together for about 20 minutes then I removed the chops and finished out the potatoes. My chops kept hot.

Here is the final product with green beans from the garden to finish it off.