Mexican Pork Chops

Mexican Pork Chops was a freezer meal that I had prepped in one of my earlier posts which I prepared this week for dinner.  The recipe was from the 30 Day Gourmet Website.  I had always had great luck with their recipes so I was really looking forward to this one.

I thawed out the package in the fridge:

Sprayed a baking dish with cooking spray and assembled the casserole.

The photos do look horrible, I have to work on my photography skills.

Baked in oven for an hour, removed foil and put the shredded cheese on and baked for another 15 minutes.

The meal smelled really good while it was cooking.

As I had mentioned I was really looking forward to tasting this meal and I have to admit I was disappointed.  Yes it did smell amazing, the pork chops were cooked nicely and the rice was not over done but the flavours just weren't right.  It wasn't inedible but I will not be making it again and for once do not recommend this recipe, which surprised me because I do love 30 Day Gourmet.

I do still have a couple more pork chop meals that I prepped that day and I am sure they will be good.  I will post about that soon.

Happy cooking!

Marinade for Pork Chops

On my previous post I made four freezer meals with pork chops that we on sale.  It took very little time to prep these meals and have made a couple.

I thawed out the Pork in the marinade in the fridge.

Discarded the liquid and grilled the chops.  Super simple, fast dinner.

They were very tasty and will defiantly be making again.  This would be a great camping meal too since clean up is fast.

Here is the recipe, can be multiplied easily.

Marinade for Pork

6 Pork Chops
16 oz. Pineapple Juice
1/2 cup Soy Sauce
1 tsp. ground Ginger
1/2 tsp. minced Garlic
1/3 cup Italian Dressing

Combine all marinade ingredients.  Place meat in freezer bags or containers.  Pour marinade over meat.  Freeze.

Serving Directions:
Thaw.  Grill, broil or pan fry pork chops until browned on both sides and no longer pink in the centre.  Discard marinade.

I served mine with rice and steamed broccoli, will me making again, soon!

4 Pork Chop Freezer Meals

Pork chops were on sale for a great price a couple of weeks ago so I thought I would do up some freezer meals to take advantage of the great prices and save some time as well.

All recipes are from the 30 Day Gourmet website or cookbook.  I have tried a few other freezer meal cookbooks but this is the best.  The flavours are always amazing and the recipes really work.  I have quite a few favourites and look forward to sharing them soon.

All of these recipes I have never tried before but since they were from 30 Day Gourmet I was quite confident that we would like them.

Using this staples I had on hand:

 Buying the pork chops for a very decent price:

This is what I made:

Saucey Oven Pork Chops

Teriyaki Pork Chops

Marinade for Pork

Mexican Pork Chops

 Ready for the freezer, all the meals were easy to prep and only two recipes required the pork chops to be browned.

Since the meals were made awhile ago, I have prepared/served a couple.  Will update this week.