#Crockpot stuffed pork chops update#

#Crockpot stuffed pork chops update#

Update 1/23/14: A commentor, RGoss2010, used frozen pork chops to make this. The pork chops provide your meat and bread, the savory mashed potatoes provide the starch/carb that makes us all so happy, and the salad brings fresh vegetables to round out the meal. Because of the nature of a slow cooker, the pork chops end up being fork tender.Īdd a simple tossed salad with some of those delicious garden vegetables that are available at this time of year and the meal is complete. A box of stuffing mix and some fresh onions bring lots of flavor to the meal. The addition of the cream of chicken soup to this meal provides a no-fuss gravy.

I have tried other store brands of ‘cream of’ soups and they just don’t have what I am looking for in flavor and texture. I do use Campbell’s Healthy Request brand of cream of chicken soup and I stand by it as the most flavorful brand of soup. Sometimes stress-free = using cream of chicken soup in a recipe. Like I have already said, though, this recipe is simple, easy, and stress free. If you have a problem with using ‘cream of’ soups, then perhaps this is not a good recipe for you. Just FYI, the cheesy mashed potatoes are really and truly done all in the slow cooker–a one pot wonder.īefore I go any further, you need to know that this recipe for the pork chops has cream of chicken soup in it. In one slow cooker I made Pork Chops with Dressing and Gravy and in the other slow cooker I made some delicious Savory Mashed Potatoes (recipe and how-to in tomorrow’s post). It did help, I’ll admit, that I have two slow cookers, a very old one that I have had for many years and a relatively new one with a bell and whistle or two. For four whole hours I didn’t have to worry about dinner. I think that the peace came because there was no frantic hurry involved with its preparation. Mixing the church comment and the simple dinner comment in the same paragraph may seem odd, but when I made this particular dinner, I felt so peaceful. Or maybe even sometimes with making a simple dinner for your family, which they love, and which didn’t take any special effort on your part. Or maybe like times when you walk into church one Sunday and you just know that God is happy because you can ‘feel’ the joy in the building and you find yourself truly loving the people around you, even the ones that are new to you. Times like when you walk outside and the sun is at a perfect angle and there is just a slight breeze and the warmth of the day is just right and the neighborhood is unaccountably quiet and you feel at complete peace. Sometimes life comes together in simple, beautiful ways…not often, but sometimes.