Happy Memorial Day!

Chris and I have had a pretty productive day.  Chris woke up early to play golf, and then we went to lunch with my sister and her husband who were passing through town.  After lunch we went furniture shopping and found a lot of stuff at really good prices!  That was a very good thing since we have so much stuff that we need to get!  I just made one of Chris' favorite dinners:  fried pork chops, mac & cheese, and broccoli.  He leaves tomorrow for Ohio, and I'm staying home, so I had to send him off with some home cooking!  


Fried Pork Chops
Thin cut, bone-in pork chops
Kosher Salt
Cayenne Pepper
Garlic Powder
All-Purpose Flour


Season pork chops with salt, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.  Fill a shallow pan with flour (just enough for dredging the pork chops).  In a pan, heat corn oil (or any other oil that can stand high temps) on medium to medium-low heat.  Cover both sides of pork chops in flour, then put in pan.  This is gross, but it's usually time to flip when the blood starts coming out of the side of the pork chop that is facing up (or when they are golden brown).  They cook pretty quickly, so keep an eye on them!

Mac & Cheese

• 1/2 pound elbow macaroni
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 2 eggs
• 6 ounces evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon hot sauce
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• Fresh black pepper
• 3/4 teaspoon dry mustard
• 10 ounces sharp cheddar, shredded

Add a little salt to water, and boil for pasta.  In a small bowl, combine eggs, evaporated milk, hot sauce, salt, pepper, and dry mustard.  Whisk together.  When pasta is cooked, drain.  Return cooked pasta to pot.  Put back on stove on low heat.  Add butter to pasta (let melt).  When butter is melted, add egg mixture and stir together.  Slowly stir in shredded cheese.  Let melt, stirring frequently.

Mac & Cheese recipe source:  Stove Top Macaroni

The broccoli is a recipe I've posted before...nothing special.  Here is the link to the broccoli recipe.

Here is the finished product!  So yummy...I'm stuffed!  Now that Chris is leaving town again, it's back to PB & J for me...

Fishing...

We woke up when is was still dark outside yesterday to fly back home for a few days before The Memorial in Ohio.  Of course we headed straight to Bubba's for lunch.  After lunch, we headed out to Frederica to go fishing.  It wasn't much of a fishing trip...I caught a catfish and Chris didn't catch a thing!  It was a beautiful boat ride though...

 Captain Kirk...driving the boat with his toes.

 Beautiful views...

For dinner, I tried out a new pasta dish.  It was delicious, and I know I always say this, but really easy!

Awesome Easy Pasta

2 garlic cloves, minced

2 shallots, finely chopped

1 jalapeno

1 green bell pepper

1 package sliced portabello mushrooms

2 tbsp fresh oregano (finely chopped)

5 slices bacon

2 cans diced tomatoes 

2 tbsp butter

linguine 

parmesan cheese

Cook bacon.  When finished, put aside.  Reserve some of the bacon grease in the pan to cook vegetables.  Add garlic, shallots, jalapeno, bell pepper, mushrooms, and oregano to the bacon grease on med-lo heat.  Cook for about 5 minutes.  Add 2 cans of diced tomatoes (with juice) to the vegetables.  Bring to a boil, then simmer for 20-30 minutes.  While sauce simmers, cook pasta (I used spinach linguine and it was great).  Drain pasta, put into a bowl.  Add butter to the noodles, and stir to coat.  Add sauce to noodles.  Sprinkle with parmesan cheese.

Just another picture of bacon frying...I think I've had about 5 of these on here already.

Yummy!

Cheese Bread

Chris loves champagne with peach flavoring.  It cracks me up because it seems like such a girly thing to drink (yet, I don't like it at all).