Fried Pork Chops, Great Northern Beans & Cornbread

Ingredients: 
Pork Chops, salt, pepper, Tonys, self-rising flour, vegetable oil, egg
Cornbread mix, eggs, milk
Few cans of Great Northern Beans

Cover your iron skillet with oil, and preheat your oven with the skillet inside.  In the meantime, mix up your cornbread ingredients:

 Once the skillet and oven are preheated, pour the cornbread mix into the skillet. The hot oil should cause the outer edges of the cornbread to bubble and "fry" a little.  You want this to happen for a crispy crust on the cornbread. 

While the cornbread is actually baking, work on your porkchops. I begin by adding salt, pepper, and Tonys directly onto each pork chop.  Go ahead and preheat your vegetable oil in the skillet.



Beat a couple of eggs in a bowl and set aside. Pour some flour into a bowl and add salt, pepper, Tonys, and sometimes I had Ms. Dash to the mix.

Dip each porkchop into the egg, and then batter in the flour. 

Once your skillet is preheated, add the battered porkchops.  Fry until the chops are done.

 

 

Now, drain the cans of Great Northern Beans. I use the drippings from the porkchops as the sauce for the beans. Add each can carefully into the skillet once all porkchops have been removed. The skillet will be very hot, so its best to do this slowly. Stir to make sure all beans are coated with the porkchop drippings.

By this time, your cornbread should be done.

And now you have your complete meal!

Kroger Brand Frozen Stir Fry

I tried Kroger's Sesame Chicken Stir Fry.  I must say that I usually love Kroger brand food; however, I was dissapointed with this meal.  The chicken was not all white meat, which would have been fine but the chicken also didn't seem to be the best cuts of the bird.  The veggies in the meal were good, but I couldn't really fill myself up on a few pea snaps and whatnot.  Here's a comparison of the package and how it turned out.

Kim's Seafood and Lean Cuisine Meatloaf

Kim's Seafood is located in Bossier. I've never eaten there, but a coworker of mine did, so I snapped shots of her lunch :).  She had a shrimp poboy and some shrimp fried rice. I must admit that neither looked too appetizing...she said the poboy was great but the rice not so much.

The other day I had Lean Cuisine Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes. Here's a comparison of what it looked like on the box as to how it actually came out. I think I may be done with the Lean Cuisine's now that the gallbladder is out...yay!

Vince's North Port Restaurant

We live close to Vince's North Port Restaurant, and we love eating there.  They've recently celebrated their addition of Vince's South Port Restaurant on the south side of town.  I haven't eaten there yet, but if it's half as good as Vince's North Port then I may be in trouble. Last night we ordered Vince's North Port to go.

Mookie ordered the sirloin, medium-well, with a potato.  Here's his meal:

I must admit that I ordered the plain fettucini alfred. However, Vince's offers chicken alfredo and a cajun alfredo (with shrimp and crawfish).  They accidentally gave me the chicken alfredo and I was delightly surprised to find FRIED CHICKEN in my fettucini.  I've never seen fried chicken in fettucini, but it was GREAT!

Lean Cuisine - Chicken with Basil Cream Sauce

As you can tell...I've become a recent fan of Lean Cuisine, but it's always a hit and miss....
I've found a few that I like, and this is one of them.  It's Lean Cuisine Chicken with Basil Cream Sauce. 
Here is a comparison of the manufacturer's picture and what it REALLY looks like:

The chicken is actually covered in the sauce instead of drizzled as in the box picture. However, the sauce in this dish is REALLY good, so it's actually tastier that way.  The noodles are quite bland unless you mix the sauce into them...otherwise, no taste at all.  The chicken is very good (and that says alot...it's hard to make a good frozen dinner with chicken as the entree). 

Papa John's Pizza

I LOVE Papa John's Pizza!  Here is a comparison of what it's supposed to look like and what it actually looks like....

The cheese wasn't quite as plentiful as depicted in their picture, but it sure did taste good!

Here's the breadsticks:

Chicken Doritoe Casserole and Kroger Brand Noodles n Sauce, Sara Lee Cheesecake

Chicken Doritoe Casserole

1 pack of chicken (or a small,whole chicken)

1 bag of Doritoes (you will have leftovers for munchin)

Sauce:

2-3 tbs butter

1 onion

jalepeno

1can cream of mushroom soup

1can cream of chicken soup

1cup milk

Topping:

Several slices of cheese

Directions:

Boil your chicken.

Set chicken aside when done in order to cool. Once cooled, tear chicken into small bite-sized pieces.

Sautee chopped onion and jalepeno in 2-3 tbs of butter.

Once vegetables are tender, add 1 cup milk, both cans of soup, and stir.  You can make a thinner sauce by adding some of the chicken broth you got from cooking the chicken.  (I usually add at least 1/4 cup of broth). 

Line casserole dish with Doritoes and push down to crush them up a little. 

Top Doritoes with chicken.

Pour sauce on top of chicken.

Top with cheese. 

Bake on 350degrees until cheese is melted and starting to brown. 

To go with the casserole, I made Kroger Brand Noodles n Sauce. 

Here is a comparison of what it's supposed to look like and what it actually looks like:

I also added a can of corn, and here's the finished meal:

Later, I made Sara Lee frozen cheesecake.  I used the microwaveable thawing method.  It was still frozen in the middle, but starting to get runny around the edges.  Taste is 5 outta 5 though.

Lean Cuisine - Roasted Turkey Breast with Dressing

If you haven't noticed, my blog has suffered due to major diet restrictions b/c of health problems. I hope you still enjoy these "bland" posts :)

My new favorite Lean Cuisine is this Roasted Turkey Breast with Dressing and Cinnamon Apples.  This is a comparison of what it's supposed to look like as to what it actually does look like.

The food actually looks close to what it looks like on the box with the exception of the dressing.  On the box the gravy is soley on the turkey; however as you can see, in the carton the turkey is on top of the dressing, and both of the items are soaked in gravy.  But...I like it better this way! It doesn't LOOK quite as appetizing but it sure tastes great!

There weren't quite as many apples as the box predicts..but again, they taste great, so I can forgive Stouffers.

BBQ Baked Chicken and Baked Beans

I used chicken breasts because I like white meat, however sometimes I get a whole, cut up chicken. You can use whatever pieces you like. 
 
Sprinkle your chicken with salt, pepper, a dash of garlic powder, and Tony's. 

I make a sauce made of a smorgasbord (sp?) of ingredients: BBQ sauce (sometimes I use a couple of different flavors like a honey BBQ sauce and a hickory smoke sauce), either syrup or honey, Tony's, a bit of garlic powder, salt, and pepper...you can add whatever you like though. Some other good things to add are A-1 cajun marinade and worcerstire sauce.  

Cook at 350degrees for an hour or until chicken is done.


For the baked beans, I take a couple of cans of pork n beans.  Then, add a bit of ketchup and mustard.  Stir.  Add syrup and BBQ sauce (again, I usually use a couple of different kinds of sauce).  You can also add finely chopped or minced onions. Layer the top of the beans with bacon.  Cook at 350degrees for about an hour. 

 

Here is the finished meal  (you can use the sauce from the chicken as a good topper for mashed potatoes)