Great Giveaway from See Jane Blog

Christmas is coming!  Can't believe it!  Where did 2012 go?

I'll be doing a few more Christmas prep posts, but for now check out this great giveaway!

http://www.seejaneblog.co/2012/11/14/elf-on-the-shelf-giveaway/

Cinnamon Apple Pork Chops

So much for using this blog to get organized.  One post since July.....PATHETIC!  I'll be doing much better.  I promise! ;)

What better way to get back into the groove than with the start of fall?  I love fall and fall is definitely in the air!

Tonight’s dinner was a total experiment.  Luckily it was also a total success!  I was craving the combination of pork and apple (so festive and fallish), so I went to my biggest cook book – Google!  I was missing enough ingredients from each recipe to decide not to go with anything I found.  Instead I thought, “Apple pie is yummy…..pork chops are yummy……dare I combine them?”

Yup, I dare!  My first order of business was to make apple pie filling since I didn’t have any on hand. 

Cook ¼ cup butter and 4 apples, cored and cut into ¼ inch strips, on medium high heat on the stove until apples are ALMOST tender.  In a small bowl or cup combine 2 tsp cornstarch with ½ cup cold water.  Add to apples.  Stir in ½ cup brown sugar and ½ tsp of cinnamon.  During this time the apples will become tender.  (Just be careful not to overcook them and make them mushy.)  I put all of that into a quart mason jar. 

WITHOUT cleaning the pan I added a little olive oil and cooked up some pork chops.  They ended up with a light apple flavor.

In a medium sauce pan I sauteed an onion.  When the onion was good and tender I mixed in about ½ the jar of apple pie filling.  Top your pork chop and you’re in a sweet and savory heaven!  Scot’s review, “It’s surprisingly…..pretty good.”  -- Believe it or not that statement spells SUCCESS!  The best part is then you have ½ a quart of crust less apple pie (my way of having it) for desert or a yummy topping for some ice cream.

(Sorry, no pictures.  I'll get better.  I promise!)  :)

Who Am I?

I'm a stay at home mom.  It's what I love most in this world.  It's all I want to do.  Problem is......I'm terrible at it!  The worst!  You may be thinking you are the worst, but in all seriousness I hold that title.  Sorry to burst your bubble.  I could post pictures, but my goodness NO, not gonna!  At least not all at once.  You'd have a stroke.  So for the safety of your health we'll take this one step at a time.


I don't expect to be the best.  Heaven knows that's like asking a cat to bark, but I REFUSE to be the worst!  I can't change the fact that I have kids, chaos and clutter (and I wouldn't want to....at least not the kids part) but I can and will do better to lessen the clutter part.  Maybe then I'll have less chaos?  Here's hoping!  


Thanks for joining me in my journey for a life less complicated.  We may never get the magazine cover home, but I plan on enjoying every minute trying.  :)