Works-For-Me-Wednesday Chops, Apples, and Stuffing

I love Works-For-Me Wednesday each week over at Rocks In My Dryer - helpful hints and totally cool tips to make our lives easier. Now that I've created a blog that has since been sitting here sad and alone, I thought I'd throw in a works-for-me item of my own. This week is about quick and easy meals and I'd like to share something I made for the first time just the other night. It isn't all that QUICK since it has too cook for a while in the oven, but takes minimum prep and only a few ingredients, making it very easy. That cooking time can be spent with homework or checkbook balancing or (if you're like me) online.

pork chops - I used 6 boneless chops cut from a pork loin I'd bought whole and had sliced (and less than $2 per pound)

stuffing mix - I used 2 boxes of stovetop cornbread stuffing

canned apples - I used a total of four cans - 2 cans of apple pie filling (one was ver y cinnamony, the other not so muich) and two cans of canned apple slices (found with the canned fruit at the grocery) It was what was in my pantry, but also a good combination. I think all pie filling would be too sweet.

Dump the apples into the bottom of a 13x9 pan and spread them out evenly.

Brown the chops in some olive oil on the stove, then lay them over the apples.

Prepare the stuffing per the package, then heap it evenly on top of each chop.

Bake in the oven at 375 for 45 minutes or so until the chops are done and the apples are bubbly.

There it is - the whole meal with only about 10 minutes of prep time to brown the chops and mix up the stuffing. My whole family loved it - I hope you do, too.

Now to see if I can make the linky linky thing works over at Rocks in My Dryer....

Genesis

In the beginning, there was a woman. She was a very busy woman with four mostly nice but sometimes naughty children. She was a woman who had the evil but common affliction that causes adults, especially mothers, to raise their hands and say "Sure, I can help with that." And so, her attention was scattered in many directions. One of the directions her attention was scattered was to several blogs she read with her coffee each morning. She knew that she could never take pictures or write or cook like The Pioneer Woman, or be as helpful as Works for Me Wednesday from Rocks in my Dryer. She didn't have an exciting tale of courage to tell or even a joke to share. Her life was much like so many other suburban moms who spend their days volunteering at the children's schools, their afternoons driving kids around, and their evenings leading scout groups and attending meetings before collapsing into bed. But she figured "Why not?" and so this blog was born to chronicle the life of an ordinary mom whose attention is always scattered.