Dijon Mustard Crusted Pork Chops | Welcome Back Blog!

This blog post marks my renewed promise to begin blogging again when I cook meals that are blog worthy. I forgot how much fun it is to share my laughable attempts to cook a ‘good dinner’ … and to chronicle that via photography and this here little blog of mine. Do you KNOW how many people search for Julia Child garlic mashed potatoes and end up on my blog … oh, about 10-15 a day.  That’s 10-15 people who perhaps prior to my blog had never tasted such heaven in their mouths! So… I blog. And, I hope my posts bring laughter, creativity and an urge to try something out of the box!

 

Tonight my friends, one of my favorite {and simple} recipes: Dijon Mustard Crusted Pork Chops.  Now, you can use bone-in or bone-out but my personal favorite are bone-out, thick cut pork chops. Mmm, delish.  In my house, you have to disguise pork as something wonderful and amazing or the foodie bf may turn his nose.  So, rest assured knowing that this recipe may get a pork-loather into a pork-lover {ha, isn’t that clever}

 

You will need: A box of some kind of “shake n’ bake” style crumbs for pork. The ones I used tonight were Kraft brand, ‘extra crispy.’  A jar/bottle of Dijon mustard. Which, I’ve used everything from fancy Dijon to the spicy brown stuff to grey poupon. Just use what you have handy. Although, I don’t think I’d recommend yellow mustard. That could be disastrous. And of course you need the pork chops!!!

 

Disregard the directions on the box and follow me … tempting I know … Instead of using egg to make the shake n’ bake or ‘oven fry’ stick to the chops, coat your chops in a very good helping of mustard. Make sure you get all the sides too! Slather it on good and don’t be shy.  Then, just how you would imagine, plop the chop down in the crumbs and cover it well. Once you’ve done this with all the chops, lay them on a cookie sheet that you’ve sprayed with a bit of cooking oil.

 

So, after this:

 

 

This…

 

 

And this …

 

 

You end up with ….

 

 

Bake in the oven at 425 degrees for about 20 minutes.  I’m afraid of pink pork {thanks, mom} so I cook mine longer, sometimes too long.  But, I’m sure you can judge the ‘doneness’ of your own pork.  Serve with whatever you’d like … tonight I made boiled red potatoes with salt and butter and some peas I found in the pantry because I was too lazy to shuck corn.  {Now, that’s a mental picture for those of you who know me … shucking corn!} Anyhow… here’s my finished product:

 

And, after dinner … she rested. Enjoy ya’ll!  {And welcome back to Emerging Domesticity}