Lick Your Chops Pork (One-Dish Pork Chops)

Double Fudge Brownie Murder

**Lick Your Chops Pork (One-Dish Pork Chops**) is the sixteenth recipe featured in Double Fudge Brownie Murder

**Hannah’s 1st Note: Here’s another recipe from Lisa’s Aunt Nancy. It’s so easy it’s almost sinful. If you serve it to your family, you should run your fingers through your hair so it looks like you didn’t have time to brush it, dab a little flour on your face, and rumple your apron a bit before you carry it out of the kitchen. That way your family will think you spent hours in the kitchen cooking just for them.**

* You’ll need a large frying pan, a 6-quart or larger slow cooker ***(crock pot)***, OR a 9-inch by 13-inch cake pan.
* 6 center-cut pork chops,3/4 inch to 1 inch thick
* 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
* 1 Tablespoon salted butter
* 2 cans of **condensed** cream of mushroom soup ***(I used Campbell’s, 10 and 3/4 ounce cans—see Hannah’s 2nd Note below)***
* 1 can of **condensed** tomato soup ***(I used Campbell’s, 10 and 3/4 ounce can—see Hannah’s 2nd Note below)***
* 1 can of **condensed** cream of celery soup ***(I used Campbell’s, 10 and 3/4 ounce can—see Hannah’s 2nd Note below)***
* 1 package DRY pork gravy mix ***(I used Schilling, the kind that you heat with one cup of water.)***
* 2 medium-size onions, chopped
* 2 medium-size green peppers ***(or one red and one green, OR a small package of frozen tricolor pepper strips)***
* 3 or 4 medium-size potatoes, peeled and cut in half lengthwise.
* 1 additional package of pork gravy mix ***(for later)***
* Salt ***(for later when you adjust the seasonings)***
* Pepper ***(for later when you adjust the seasonings—freshly ground is best, of course)***
* Hot Sauce ***(make sure it’s Slap Ya Mama hot sauce if you invite Mike Kingston!)***

**Hannah’s 2nd Note: It’s becoming more difficult to find condensed soups in the stores. Make sure you look for the word CONDENSED and read the directions, just to make sure. It should say to mix one can of water or milk with the can of soup before heating as soup. If it doesn’t say that, you don’t have condensed soup. If you buy Campbell’s soups, the condensed versions are generally in red and white cans with the words “Great for Cooking” on the label, but that could change before this recipe is published!**

* In a large skillet on MEDIUM HIGH heat, sauté the pork chops with the vegetable oil and butter until they’re browned on both sides. Remove the pork chops to a plate and pull the frying pan from the heat. DON’T WASH IT! Use a spatula to loosen any tidbits of pork on the bottom of the skillet, but leave them there.

**Lisa’s Note: I always spray the inside of my crock pot with Pam when I make this recipe. Herb does the dishes when I do the cooking and it makes it easier for him to wash my crock pot.**

* Mix the 4 cans of condensed soup and the dry pork gravy mix together in a large bowl on the counter.
* Place 1/4 of the soup mixture in the bottom of the crock pot.
* Place a layer of pork chops on top of the soup. Turn them over with a fork so that the tops of the pork chops are coated and then cover them with another layer of pork chops. Slather the top layer of pork chops with another 1/4 of the soup. ***(You have now used half of the soup.)***
* Turn the crock pot on LOW heat and cover it to begin cooking.
* Place the chopped onions and peppers in the skillet you used for the pork chops and fry them over medium heat until the onions are translucent. Stir constantly, scraping the bottom of the pan to lift and mix in any tidbits of browned pork that have stuck to the pan.
* Remove the onions and peppers from the pan with a slotted spoon and place them on top of the pork chops in the crock pot.
* Slide the potato halves around the pork chops and slather on the rest of the soup in your bowl.
* Replace the crock pot lid and cook until the pork chops and potatoes are fork tender, approximately 4 hours. ***(Mine took the full 4 hours.)***
* Taste the gravy that has formed and adjust the seasonings if necessary. If the gravy is not thick enough, sprinkle in the 2nd package of pork gravy mix, stir it in, put on the lid, and let it cook in the crock pot for an additional 15 minutes.
* Serve with a small green salad if you wish, and you will have a complete meal with salad, meat, vegetable garnish, potatoes and gravy! You can also add a side dish of chilled applesauce or cranberry sauce.

**Jo Fluke’s Note: You can also make this meal in a 9-inch by 13-inch cake pan in the oven. Assemble it the same as you would in a crockpot, cover it with 2 layers of heavy-duty foil to seal in all that goodness, and bake it in a 350 F. degree oven for 3 hours or until the potatoes and pork chops are fork tender.**