Pork Chops w/Apples

The weather has turned more fall-ish the past few days in NH, and so I pulled out a new recipe for pork chops last night. It was truly delish and super simple!

Pre-heat the over to 175, pan cook the pork chops w/ a little olive oil and then put into the oven to stay warm. In the same pan put 2 tsp butter, some brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, pepper and 2 sliced apples. By this point, your kitchen will smell wonderful!

Once the apples are soft, put them on top of the pork chops in the oven and keep the 'sauce' on the stove until it thickens - YUM! once thick, pull everything out and serve.

As you can see, I layered everything on the plate, so when I put the sauce over the top, it dripped down and also flavored the green beans a bit too!
This was so good (and easy!) that it will truly be a keeper as we head into the cooler NE seasons.

What have you been cooking up recently?

Fire Pit!

Per Kel's request, here are 2 updated photos of the fire pit in the yard. We totally love it and have started using it much more often (of course, finally getting the fire permit helped that too!).

The grey crushed stone that came with didn't quite reach the bottom
of the black fire ring, so we've been adding our own yard rocks as we find them.

They are slowly breaking down in the fires to become smaller rocks,
which is fine with us as well as the fire marshall!

Now all I need to pick up is some good marshmallow sticks - skewers really, since I'd like them to be permanent so we don't have to go hunting every time we want to roast a marshmallow!

Haley Visit!

Haley came up for the weekend on the train Saturday.
We ran some errands and chatted the whole time, catching up!

Next up was snacks at the house while chopping fruit...

for Sangria!

Haley was very excited to try it out

and I have to say - the first time either one of us made it without Kel,
we did a pretty good job! Kel, you'd be proud!! It was tasty!

A lot of firsts happened actually - Haley GRILLED our dinner!!!

corn, sweet potatoes and BBQ chicken...

Everything was awesome!!!
We ended the night around the fire pit with marshmellows, chocolate and a HUGE full moon!

Sunday was brunch and shopping at the Kittery outlets!
We got some great deals and Haley came away with  2 SUPER cute dresses!
As well as other things, but the dresses were the finds of the day!

Haley and I agreed that our next adventure will be me taking the train to Boston to hang out for the day! Woot! I can't wait Haley!!