So much good food...

Last Sunday, a week ago, we had Bobby, Debbie and Tim's mom over for dinner. Tim made fish sandwiches that were so awesome! He made a beer batter with lots of good stuff in it and fried them in our cast iron skillet. With that we had mac & cheese and asparagus. We have a whole book of mac & cheese recipes and he has been waiting to make some for a while. This one was very creamy and delicious! The asparagus was fresh and cooked perfectly. I can't remember if he put butter or olive oil on them but I believe he baked it and it was so good. 66% of this meal was stuff I wouldn't typically eat but it was so good. I think the asparagus was my favorite then the fish and last the mac & cheese which is odd for me. I am starting to like lots of new vegetables. Bobby got me really liking brussel sprouts which youll see we also had for dinner last night.

Last night we had brussel sprouts sauteed in butter, pasta and meatloaf. I am not typically a meatloaf person because I don't like ketchup. Especially when it is cooked on top and I can see it and most of the time it is too dry. The recipe used was amazing! Not alot of ketchup but it was mixed in the meat before cooking with other ingredients and everything made this so juicy and fantastic! The meatloaf and pasta recipes I got from allrecipes.com. I get alot of recipes or most of the time recipe ideas from here. The majority of the time I change half the ingredients. The pasta was called "Pasta e Olio". It is basically olive oil, butter, parsley, garlic and crushed red pepper flakes. The noodles were delicious as well. I was worried while I was cooking them because I'm not crazy about spicy food and I thought the red pepper flakes would be too much for me. They were just right though! Every once in a while at the end of a bite I'd get a little kick from it and it was perfect. Then the meatloaf was called "Rempel Family Meatloaf". I just realized that was probably the first time I didn't change anything from the recipe. So if you want to know anything about them just go to the site and search those recipes.

Tonight we had pork chops, corn and the same noodles from last night. I am not crazy about pork chops either but Tim likes them alot and I like to have a variety of meats for dinner. As it turns out...these were the best pork chops ever! Again, I got the recipe from allrecipes.com and they were titled "Baked Pork Chops I". First, I put just a little bit of Lawry's and garlic powder on them. I then seperately put them into egg, flour then MANCINI's bread crumbs. I cut up some fresh mushrooms and onion and put everything in the cast iron skillet with some olive oil. When the pork chops were seared I put them in the oven for about 20-30 minutes. Not sure how long because I always forget to watch the time. When they were pretty much cooked through I added the sauce for another 5 minutes in the oven. The sauce was milk, chicken broth and cream of chicken. I put that in the same cast iron skillet with the onions and mushrooms(and where the pork chops were seared) before I poured it all in the oven with the pork chops. The corn was defenitely a nice change from the Aldi's corn we usually eat. We went all out(because we had a coupon) and had Green Giant frozen corn. You can defenitely taste the difference! The noodles were even better tonight because we put some of the sauce from the pork chops over them.