Day 6 - Super Easy Porkchops

1 cup of baby carrots, Four pork chops(decent size chops, not thin), a jar of Apricot preserves(next time I'll use Peach), and 8 hours on low or four hours on high in the crockpot or until done.

Salt & Pepper the pork chops, then layer in the order ingredients were listed.

The chops were cooked perfectly, the carrots were done just right not too soft but the sauce left a little something to be desired, next time, I'll use peach preserves and maybe a 1/4 cup of bbq sauce or mustard or something to punch the flavor up a little.

I served it with a light alfredo sauced penne pasta with mixed veggies.

Tomorrow I'm going to take the 2 left over chops, dice them up and toss them in some already cooked rice with peas and corn into a wok, mix it all up with soy sauce, sesame oil and a couple eggs until the eggs are cooked. mmmm hankering for it already.

Days 4, 5 & I didn't do it..

So...for the holidays, I made a few dishes in the crockpot. One was a scalloped potato with cheddar and ham. It was..eh *shrugs* Not very exciting.

Then I tried a bread pudding in the crockpot recipe. Now... usually, when I make substitutions in a recipe, they turn out fabulous. This was...not...fabulous. It basically turned into what looked like mushy baby food. It was supposed to be a Cozy Cherry Bread Pudding made with a can of cherry pie filling, eggs, sugar, cinnamon raisin bread and a few other items that I can't remember. I do not know what happened, but it wasn't pretty and the entire batch ended up down the disposal.

I was not impressed or pleased.

In other news, I did try a crockpot Italian Sausage dish that was awesome. The camera isn't cooperating so I'll just tell you how AMAZING it was lol.

I took 5 Mild Italian Sausage links, a jar of pasta sauce, a 1/4 cup of dark brown sugar, some Italian seasoning, onion salt and one diced green pepper and mixed it all up and let it simmer in the crockpot on high for 5 hours.

Once it was done, I served it over a baked potato. It sounds odd, but it tasted amazing. My hubby had his over pasta. lol