Cream of Mushroom pork chops

If you’re wanting to make my family happy make some cream of mushroom pork chops.  It’s always a sure fire hit.

Doesn’t that look delicious?

It’s pretty easy to make

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Ingredients: 1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup, pork chops (however many people are in your family), Soy Sauce (I love this little dispenser), butter, garlic if you want

1. Melt butter in your Skillet.
2. Start cooking your pork chops, brown both sides.
3. Pour the cream of mushroom soup over the pork chops.
4. Add a bit of soy sauce (I just did a squiggle pattern over the meat, so I’d guess a couple of teaspoons, maybe more).
5. Cook for about 10-15 minutes more, check to see if pork chops are no longer pink, and then serve.
6. We’ve served it with egg noodles traditionally because that’s very popular in my family.  I personally like white rice with butter.

Don’t expect any leftovers of your pork chops because I never have any.

If you come back on Monday you’ll get a peek into how I plan our menus for the week.

Now, off of the grand cream of mushroom soup pork chops recipe and on to our week

 

Friday night we headed off to the Texas Renaissance Festival, and I snapped this picture of Princess reading on her Nook.  I love it, it’s just so perfectly describes many aspects of childhood.  My Mom saw it and said that could have been me as a kid.

This year was the year of many purchases.  Princess had saved over $50, and the boys each had around $20 (they’d spent a lot at NASA last week).  Princess happily browsed all the stores and ended up buying a fan, the garland you see, a small book, and a stuffed animal.  It was quite impressive as she spent a lot of time debating on the best purchases.  The boys mainly spent their money on games to play there, and a costume for their bears.  It’s been a lot of fun seeing how the kids are growing and changing as they get older.  This year they put a lot more thought into what they did and didn’t just buy because they had money.  They had a plan of what they wanted to spend money on before getting there.

Part of my enjoyment of Ren Fest is seeing all of the pretty moments.  There’s just something picturesque about the whole thing, and it’s got a lot of ambiance

Here’s Jeff and I’s costumes for the year.  Princess dressed as a princess, after much discussion on what variation she would be.  Superman was Green Arrow or Robin Hood depending on when you asked him.  Batman was an assassin…. in a bright red shirt.

Of course for me part of the fun is seeing the costume elements and thinking how I’d make them, or how I could put that costume together.  So I take lots of pictures of ideas, so many ideas, and items I’d like to wear or make, or design.  Then I happily sit there dreaming up ideas and plans.

But, we did other stuff than Ren Fest, that was just one day.  We drove home on Saturday, dragged ourselves to church, where poor Superman hurt himself.  We thought it wasn’t super bad, so we didn’t take him to the ER.  The next morning we made an appointment for the doctor’s and….

discovered homeschoolers really can school anywhere.  Those top few pictures are the kids completing their work as we waited in the doctor’s office.

And then the rest of the week went downhill from there.  We had 3 different science experiments on volcanoes NOT work.  Seriously, they didn’t display the effect they should have.  Tuesday we got together with Aunt Tara and Uncle Josh because they had to leave town (oh and I had a dentist appointment for a rather painful and annoying problem) because their pipes had burst.

Plus side Tara took some cute pictures of the kids that I stole from her facebook page.  Yes, I am shameless, I will steal cute pictures of my kids.

Then came Wednesday……  Sigh, we’ll just leave it at, I called Jeff and told him the kids were going to bed at 7:00, or earlier if I could get them dinner, and that’s that.

Thursday was a day of perfection, it’s like the horrible children of the day before were gone and it was a wonderful day.  WONDERFUL.  Some of that may have to do with the threats of not going to see the Tempest that night.

Oh the Tempest, it was a wonderful steam punk production of it and we all loved it, or I did, the boys may have said that just to make me happy.  Either way, it was a great show, with wonderful sets and costumes.

And now, it’s Halloween, and the kids are happily scheming to get all the candy, and we’re going to watch High Spirits (which is apparently no longer on DVD, so I’m linking to the streaming version, affiliate link) and Ghostbusters / Ghostbusters II (also affiliate link).  I need to decide on my costume, the kids have asked me about 20 times what I’m going to be, and I have no clue yet.

I’ll probably link up over at Homegrown Learners.