Baked Smothered Pork Chops

Ingredients: 4-6 thick cut boneless pork chops
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp seasoning salt
2 eggs, beaten
¼ cup flour
2 cups Italian bread crumbs
Oil
1 can of cream of chicken soup
½ cup milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Rinse pork chops and pat dry. Season both sides with garlic powder and seasoning salt.
3. Place flour, eggs, and bread crumbs in 3 separate bowls.
4. Heat oil in large skillet on medium-high heat.
5. Coat pork chops in flour, then eggs, and finally bread crumbs. Fry on both sides until brown (about 5 minutes per side)
6. Transfer pork chops to a 9x13 baking dish and cover with foil.
7. Cook in oven for 60 minutes.
8. Combine soup and milk.
9. Pour soup mixture over pork chops and re-cover with foil. Cook an additional 30 minutes.

Enjoy! My family loved these pork chops. The taste is very similar to my City Chicken Recipe, but takes less time!  Sorry no picture, we ate them up!

Freschetta - Rally for Real Pizza

Are you ready to Boycott Blah, Fight for Flavor, and pledge to serve only the freshest frozen pizza - FRESCHETTA® pizza?! "Rally for Real Pizza" launched on February 27th!,                         
           
Event Details:           

Date - February 27, 2012 - March 30, 2012

What - Rally for Real Pizza

Where - From the comfort of your own home

Details - www.Facebook.com/Freschettapizza

The makers of FRESCHETTA® products are asking fans to take a stand for FRESCH® pizza! Fans are able to submit a photo to a Rally Mosaic on their Facebook Fan Page for a chance to win FRESCHETTA® pizza. Each week, 100 winners will receive 5 FRESCHETTA® pizzas. On March 30, 10 winners who will receive a year supply of FRESCHETTA® pizza.

Buying a Cow

Thinking back when my husband and I were first married (almost 10 years ago), we didn't eat much meat.  I never made a roast and mashed potatoes on Sundays like I do now.  It wasn't practical for us, too many leftovers.  Plus, we were in a stage of our lives with dual incomes, we probably ate out way too much!

Fast forward 10 years and 2 hungry sons later, we eat a lot of meat!  We go through a lot of groceries!  I never thought I would be such a loyal Costco shopper.  Bulk is for us, otherwise we would be at the store everyday to refill the stock! 

Lately, I have really wanted to try to buy part of a cow for our meat.  About 2 months ago, my brother-in-law came to us asking us if we would like to split a 1/2  cow with him.  Turns out, his best friend lives on a farm and was going to slaughter a cow and can only take half the meat!  We were instantly interested!

We ended up paying only about $3/lb for our meat.  My husband brought home about 116 lbs of beef.  We got a lot of packs of ground meat, several different kinds of roasts, lots of varieties of steaks, some ribs, and miscellaneous pieces.  The 1/4 of a cow filled up our deep freezer in the basement.  I am anxious to see how long our cow lasts us!  It will definitely be a great budget helper this year, now that we do not have to buy any beef!

Menu Plan Monday - Week of February 27, 2012

Monday - Eat Out (special treat for the boys, I'll post out adventure later in the week)!
Tuesday - Beef Noodle Soup with Biscuits
Wednesday - Chili with Cornbread
Thursday - New Pork Chop recipe - I will post later!
Friday - Mom's Night Out
Saturday - Parent's Night Out
Sunday - Steaks and Potatoes!

This post is linked at MPM at I'm an Organizing Junkie!

Menu Plan Monday (or Tuesday)

Okay, I'm a day late!  But at least I have a plan!  We had a busy weekend which left me
E-X-H-A-U-S-T-E-D on Sunday night and Monday!  I need to remember to slow down and take a nap at least one of those days!  So here is the plan:

Monday - Crock Pot Beef Stew (it was delicious)!
Tuesday - Sausage Cheese Soup
Wednesday - Baked Chicken Legs and Easy Seasoned Potatoes
Thursday - Meat Manicotti and garlic bread
Friday - Eat Out!
Saturday - Family Dinner to Celebrate a Birthday!
Sunday - Slow Cooker Parmesan Honey Pork Roast and Mashed Potatoes

This post is linked at MPM at I'm an Organizing Junkie!

Let’s Save Some $$ - Contact Your Cable Company

Recently I had a very positive experience in lowering our cable/internet/phone bill. Recent bills had been $119.96 before taxes. When I received our February bill, it had jumped to $129.99. I was a bit irritated at the $10 per month increase and was ready to switch. In our area we have two competing cable companies. I searched the internet site of the competing company and they were offering $89.95 per month for the same bundle for 12 months! Wow – I want to switch now! Then I thought of all of the hassles of switching companies. I decided to call our current supplier.

When I was talking with the Customer Service Representative he explained that our bundle pricing has expired and hence the increase we received. I asked for a better package. He came up with a cost before taxes of $123.96. Not much of a savings I explained to him. I then let him know what the competing company was offering. Quickly he said, “well we have competitive price matching let me see what I can do.” He quickly came back with $93.00 before taxes.

So with a 5 minute call, I was able to save $36.99 per month off of our cable/phone/internet bill!

Progresso Souper You Contest

This year, the Souper You® Contest will provide three lucky winners with an ultimate makeover experience in Hollywood; this includes a trip for 2 to Los Angeles, California where the winner will receive a head-to-toe makeover including hair and makeup, guided shopping spree with a $1,000 fashion retailer gift card, $1,000 spending money and 2 tickets to this season´s live finale of NBC´s The Biggest Loser

Progresso is asking fans to visit www.SouperYou.com and submit their photo with a brief essay about why they love Progresso soups and why they deserve a makeover, by no later than February 22nd

Fans can check back on March 12th for the announcement of the top ten finalists, and to vote for their favorite finalist until March 25th

In addition, visit http://bit.ly/ProgressoCoup to download a printable coupon for $1.25 off the purchase of four (4) cans of Progresso Soup today, and feel free to share with your blog readers so they can take advantage of the savings as well

Also, tune into The Biggest Loser on NBC Tuesdays at 8/7c

Click here to watch this amazing video of the 2011 winner experience. 

 This information was provided to me by Progresso through MyBlogSpark.