What's for dinner tonight??

Let me show you :)

Braised pork chops, stuffing, and spaghetti squash

You can do this dinner with any meat and cook your pork chops any way you want, but I braised my pork chops for 2 days. Then I cooked them on the griddle simple as that. The liquid they were braised in was apple cider vinager, water, pepper corns, sugar, salt and garlic. I didn't really measure just dumped it in. Simply mix and stick your pork chops in. Then refrigerate. You can leave them in there for as little as two hours if you wanna cook them same day. I cheated with the stuffing and used boxed, but I doctored it up with chopped celery and onion. The gravy is a mushroom and onion gravy, made from scratch. Then the veggie was spaghetti squash, if you haven't tried it you must! If you don't know what spaghetti squash is it is a squash that once cooked and scraped out of its skin it looks like spaghetti. Recipes for gravy and squash follow. 

Mushroom & Onion Gravy:

2 Tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons flour

1/4 of an onion, sliced

2 mushrooms, chopped

2 cups chicken broth

melt butter, saute onion and mushrooms slightly. add flour stir together for a minute. slowly pour in broth, bring to a boil stirring constantly until thickened.

Spaghetti Squash:

Preheat oven to 375. Cut squash in half, scrape out seeds. Coat the flesh in olive oils, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and italian seasoning. Place face down in a 13x9  pan, add water about 1/3 of the way up the pan. place in oven and bake 30-45 min. Remove from oven, let cool to touch and scrape out the flesh into a bowl. Drizzle with olive oil, add a pinch of salt and pepper to taste, stir and enjoy!

 skin post baking

 flesh post baking

 what it looks like as its scraped out

 finished product

this is why its called spaghetti squash!