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Week 4

I just finished making week 4. I'm not feeling super well. You can thank mother nature for that. But, I can't not make my meal only 4 weeks in. So I did the response adult thing and looked for the quickest easiest meal in my cook book.

I made Breaded Pork Chop Medallions and Cheesy Mashed Potatoes. I wash actually excited for this meal. I have never made either of these. I guess I haven't made anything that I post here but I've had this before and never actually made it. Mashed potatoes, I've never made mashed potatoes. I was also excited to use my meat tenderizer. I got to pound my pork chop into this.
Not super cool, but still fun to pound :)

Then we fry it.

My first attempt at this... it didn't turn out so well. That's allowed though. People are allowed to screw up the first one they fry... Just don't eat it.

Mashed potatoes... I took it upon myself to mash potatoes with my masher.
Lovely isn't it? The way I see it. Women mashed potatoes by hand for hundreds of years. Maybe more depending on your view of how old the earth is. But I have a new fancy masher from BB&B. The golden store from which all of appliances come from. How hard could this be? I started with this:
And ended with this:
Does that look lumpy? You might be thinking, oh it's just lumpy because I mashed it. No, it's lumpy because I apparently lack the ability to hand mash potatoes. I added milk, I added butter, I added salt, I added cheese. I then added more butter, then I added more milk... I did everything but talk about potatoes to make them creamer. I have learned a lesson. There is a reason I have a very expensive very nice Kitchen Aid mixer. It makes everything better. Brian ate a lot... I did not.

The final product (according to Brian) was very tasty. I can only vouch for the pork chops.

TTFN

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