SMOTHERED PORK CHOPS

As usual I had a lot going on this week and hadn't made itto the grocery store yet so there wasn't much left to eat in my house. The onlything I had in my freezer were pork chops. Then after rummaging around in therefrigerator I found the corn and potatoes so I decided to do a wholedinner in the crock pot. After trying the ranch dressing on beef and chicken Idecided it might be good on pork chops.  I used the cream of celery soup because that’swhat I had in left in my cabinet. I think it turned out very delicious. I knewthe baked potatoes and corn in the foil would be good because I have done thembefore but never with the meat and gravy on the bottom.  I thought it might taste funny and be reallymessy so I decided to use parchment paper to separate the layers and it workedout great. I was able to remove the potatoes and corn and throw away the paperwithout too much of a mess. The pork chops were tender with a ranch taste andthe potatoes were soft and even better with some of the soupgravy on them. So I just added some bread and dinner was done! So easy, witheverything in one pot! Not much to clean up. The cooking in the foil reminds ofmy Girl Scout days when we would cook our individual meals in foil in thecoals. I think I will have to try some of those meals in the crock pot and seeif they would work. Everyone could individualize their own dinner and the cleanup would be really easy.  

  

INGREDIENTS:

4-6   boneless pork chops

1 package of ranch dressing mix

1  10 oz. can of either Cream of Celery, Mushroom, or Chickensoup

4   washed potatoes

4  ears of shucked  corn

DIRECTIONS:

Spray the crock pot with PAM. Then put the pork chops on thebottom. Pour the dressing mix all over the pork chops and follow with the canof soup. No need to add any water. Then I placed a piece of parchment paperover it. You can use foil if you don’t have parchment paper. Next I butteredand seasoned my potatoes and corn and wrapped them each individually in foil.Place the potatoes on top of the paper, and then add the corn. Cover and cookon low for 6 hours or on high for 4-5 hours.