Pork

  • Serve these juicy 8 Minute Pork Chops with peas and Minute® Ready to Serve Whole Grain Brown Rice on the side.

    Quick Pork Chops and Minute® Rice

    Serve these juicy quick pork chops with peas and Minute® Ready to Serve Whole Grain Brown Rice on the side. My recipe for quick minute pork chops was created as part of a sponsored post by Minute® Rice! As much as I’d like to use brown rice more, I still haven’t perfected my cooking techniques. It always turns out chewy and underdone. Meh. White rice? No problem; light and fluffy every time. I hear making amazingly tender brown rice is as simple as rinsing it well beforehand, and then cooking it French-style, in a big pot of salted boiling water and draining it after about forty minutes. You know, like…

  • No Bean Pork Chili

    No Bean Pork Chili Recipe

    This no bean pork chili recipe is easy a versatile, easy-to-make comfort food! I’ve made chili dozens of ways, dozens. Ground beef, beef cubes, lots of veggies, hardly any veggies, thinner, thicker, but never any beans. Except once, right after I met my husband. It’s when I found out he doesn’t like beans. ANY beans. Well, except maybe jelly beans. Ha-ha. So my chili remains bean-less, which is a shame because I love beans! Oh well.  No Bean Pork Chili Recipe This no bean pork chili recipe is super versatile, and feeds an army if you double (or triple!!) the recipe. I’ve used a mixture of pork and beef instead of…

  • Juicy skillet fried thick-cut pork chops are a favorite in our house. Easy for a busy weeknight, and fall-off-the-bone tender!

    Juicy Skillet Fried Thick-Cut Pork Chops

    Juicy skillet fried thick-cut pork chops are a favorite in our house. Easy to make on a busy weeknight and fall-off-the-bone tender! I was flipping by Food Network the other day and managed to catch an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown was busy searing a couple of thick pork chops in preparation for a few hours’ roasting in a slow cooker. He had sliced apples and caramelized onions ready to go, along with a pan sauce lovingly finished off with butter and scraped bits from the bottom of the pan. It looked wonderful — warm and comforting. A recipe I’m going to tuck away until fall’s crisp, blustery…

  • These juicy, savory, tender seared pork chops with a simple pan gravy are ready in fewer than fifteen minutes!

    Juicy 8-Minute Pork Chops With Easy Skillet Gravy

    These juicy, savory, tender seared pork chops with easy skillet gravy are ready in under fifteen minutes. Be sure to scroll to the bottom to get the recipe card and some of my other favorite recipes made with pork! Pork chops … the “other white meat,” right? I love pork chops … they’re often on sale at budget-friendly prices, very versatile flavor-wise, and quick to prepare.  My favorite pork chops cuts have a bone and are close to an inch thick. Generally a bone-in, thicker chop has more fat and they tend to stay juicier than their thinner counterparts. There’s nothing worse than frying up a couple of super lean chops,…