Stuffed Pork Chops with Craisins Sauce

Scripture to Live By: 
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me,bless his holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity,who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
 Psalm 103:1-5

It is the time to give thanks and praise to God for all He has done for us.  These few verses gives us at least five things that we can bless and praise the Lord for.
1.  For the forgiveness of all our sins.  
2.  For healing of all our diseases.
3.  For redeeming our lives from the pit.  
4.  He crowns us with His steadfast love.
5.  For His great mercy in withholding what we deserve.
6.  For satisfying us with good things.  

Below is a good thing that is satisfying to the taste.

Recipe Post:
We purchased a pork loin at Sam's Club and had them cut the loin into pork chops that can be stuffed. The butcher is willing to cut them into the thickness you would like them to be.  He does this for free.

Ingredients:


1 box of stuffing mix
1 1/2 cups of Craisins divided
1/2 cup of Pecans chopped
1 teaspoon parsley
1 teaspoon tarragon
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon garlic powder
3 cups of Cranberry Juice divided
4 teaspoons of corn starch

Cook 4 stuffing pork chops in the crock pot until tender.  Cook in 1 cup of cranberry juice, 2 bay leaves and 1 teaspoon of garlic powder. I cook them on high for approximately 2 hours, with lid on crock pot.

Remove from Crock pot, salt and pepper each side and brown, on both sides, in a hot skillet, coated with cooking spray or oil. 

Fix Stuffing mix according to the directions on the box and then add 3/4 cup of Craisins and 1/2 cup of chopped pecans.  Mix well.

Remove pork chops from frying pan.  In a measuring cup or bowl, mix in 2 cups of cranberry juice, 4 teaspoons of cornstarch, 1 teaspoon of dried parsley and tarragon and mix unto well blended.  Pour into the skillet and bring to a boil and let it boil until it begins to thicken.  Add 3/4 cup of Craisens and cook until thickened.

While the sauce is cooking you can stuff your pork chops with the stuffing mix.  

After you get the chops stuffed place them in the sauce in the skillet.  If you have extra stuffing, you can add it to your pan, as well.

Put the lid on your skillet and cook for at least 20 minutes so the flavors can blend well as they simmer together.   They looks so yummy.

Serve with healthy vegetables.  Add extra sauce even on the vegetable, if you like.  

Hope you will give it a try.

Blessing, 

Parties I Link Up To: 

Monday:

Craft O Maniac,  Keeping it Simple,  Creating Really Awesome Free Things,  Make Ahead Meals for Busy Moms  Between Naps on the Porch, Mad in Crafts, I'm An Organizing Junkie,  Sew Can Do, I Should Be Mopping the Floor,  Making the World Cuter, The Gunny Sack, Mrs. Happy Homemaker, Uncommon Designs, DIY Home Sweet Home, The Modest Mom,Good Morning Mondays

Tuesday: 

  Coastal Charm,  A Bowl Full of Lemons ,  Tip Junkie ,  Sugar Bee Crafts ,  Not Just a Housewife ,Today's Creative Blog ,  Balancing Beauty and Bedlam ,  5 Minutes for Mom ,  Funky Polkadot Giraffe ,    Hope Studios ,   Time Warp Wife , Chef in Training Home Stories A to Z, My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia,  Vintage Wanna Bee, The Blackberry Vine, Carolyn's Homework, The Kurtz Corner,  Growing Home,  Cornerstone Confessions, Mercy Ink, Ginger Jamboree,A Diamond in the Stuff, Reasons to Skip the Housework,A Stroll Thru Life

Wednesday:

 Raising Homemakers , Crystal & Co. ,  We AreThat Family , Women Living Well, The Trendy Treehouse ,  Handy Man, Crafty Woman Someday Crafts ,   This Chick Cooks ,  Seven Thirty Three,  Sugar & Dots A Creative Princess , Creations by Kara, Gingersnap Crafts ,   Uncommonly Yours, My Girlish Whims, Adorned from Above Fabric Bows and More, Twin Dragonfly Designs, The Thrifty Home, Semi Homemade Mom Simply Designing

Thursday:

 Shabby Creek Cottage,  Delightful Order  House of Hepworths,   The Frugal Girls ,  Miz Helen's Country Cottage ,  The Thirty Sixth Avenue,  Thrifty 101, Diary of a Stay at Home Mom, Beyond the Picket Fence, A Glimpse Inside, MandatoryMooch, Think Tank, The Real Thing with the Coake Family,Life we Live 4,Somewhat Simple The Girl Creative

Friday:

The Shabby Nest ,  Fingerprints on the Fridge ,  Chic on a Shoestring, Life as Mom ,  Miss Mustard Seed ,  Tidy Mom ,  Whipperberry,  French Country Cottage  30 Handmade Days ,  Finding Fabulous ,   Naptime Crafters Tatertots and Jello,My Romantic Home , While He was Napping , Comfy in the Kitchen,  Bacon Time with the Hungry, Hungry Hippo,  The Country Cook,  Six Sister's Stuff, Kitchen Fun With My Three Sons, Ann Kroeker Writer,, Simply Sweet Home, Craft Junkie Too, , Happy Hour Projects,City of CreativeDreams

 Saturday:

Funky Junk Interiors,  Young and Crafty ,  Be Different, Act Normal ,  A Vision to Remember, Sweet as Sugar Cookies, Positively Splendid, It's Overflowing, The Artsy Girl Connection, Craft Envy, Too Much Time On My Hands, Something Swanky Sassy Little Lady,

Or So She Says, Tutus and Tea Parties, Your Home Based Mom

Hand Mirror Starts Fire

Scripture to Live By:But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you. Psalm 5:11

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory, by Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:19

Helpful Tip: Last Sunday morning, this was the setting of our sun room.  I was plucking some facial hair off, before going to church.  I was using a  hand mirror with a magnifying side to see the hair better.  The mirror had a non-magnifying side, as well. If you look closely you can see the  mirror sitting on the coffee table, where I left it sitting, when I was finished with it.  But little did I know, when I left the mirror on the table that I could have caught my house on fire.

My husband and I were enjoying our sun room, a few days later, because the sun was warming the room nicely, even though the temperature out side was in the 30 degree range, it was really nice in the sun room.

Little did we know that a magnifying mirror, reflecting onto a couch,  could magnify the sun temperature to such a degree that it could catch something on fire.

As you can see in this picture, the sun is hitting the mirror which is producing a reflection of the sun onto the couch.  Through the magnifier the sun is hotter than it would be normally. It produces heat hot enough to start a fire.

 But I want to show you what can happen. We certainly got the shock of our lives.

Now I do not know how long it took for the sun's reflection to actually start a fire, but we found out that we could only hold our hand in front of the mirror reflecting the sun for about 15 seconds, until it burned our hand.

 My sofa now has a burn spot on it that is about 3" by 2 1/2 inches.

 I am so thankful that we went into the sun room and discovered what was happening. My husband had smelled something burning, and looked to see if he could see anything earlier, but didn't see anything, in possible areas where a fire could start. We had no idea that a mirror could start a fire. We do not think a plain mirror would have produced the same results, but the magnifier on the one side magnified the heat of the sun.

Please be aware of possible things that can start fires. We had a house fire many years ago, and just let me say, you do not want the work that a house fire creates, nor the devastation.  Had we not been home this could have been worse.

I am glad I can reupholster this cushion.  Such a minor cost in the realization of how much worse it could have been.

So if you have a hand held mirror that has a magnifier on one side, you do not want to leave it sitting on a table where the sun can hit the mirror and reflect the sun on something that can catch fire. I would recommend that you put the mirror away out of any possible sunlight hitting it.

 What a lesson I have learned from this incident.
Had the couch smoldered until we went to bed we could have not only lost our home but our lives as well.  We are one thankful couple.

I am sharing this to prevent this from happening to any of you.

Blessings to each of you,

Parties I Link Up To: 

Monday:

Craft O Maniac,  Keeping it Simple,  Creating Really Awesome Free Things,  Make Ahead Meals for Busy Moms  Between Naps on the Porch, Mad in Crafts, I'm An Organizing Junkie,  Sew Can Do, I Should Be Mopping the Floor,  Making the World Cuter, The Gunny Sack, Mrs. Happy Homemaker, Uncommon Designs, DIY Home Sweet Home, The Modest Mom,Good Morning Mondays

Tuesday: 

  Coastal Charm,  A Bowl Full of Lemons ,  Tip Junkie ,  Sugar Bee Crafts ,  Not Just a Housewife ,Today's Creative Blog ,  Balancing Beauty and Bedlam ,  5 Minutes for Mom ,  Funky Polkadot Giraffe ,    Hope Studios ,   Time Warp Wife , Chef in Training Home Stories A to Z, My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia,  Vintage Wanna Bee, The Blackberry Vine, Carolyn's Homework, The Kurtz Corner,  Growing Home,  Cornerstone Confessions, Mercy Ink, Ginger Jamboree,A Diamond in the Stuff, Reasons to Skip the Housework,A Stroll Thru Life

Wednesday:

 Raising Homemakers , Crystal & Co. ,  We AreThat Family , Women Living Well, The Trendy Treehouse ,  Handy Man, Crafty Woman Someday Crafts ,   This Chick Cooks ,  Seven Thirty Three,  Sugar & Dots A Creative Princess , Creations by Kara, Gingersnap Crafts ,   Uncommonly Yours, My Girlish Whims, Adorned from Above Fabric Bows and More, Twin Dragonfly Designs, The Thrifty Home, Semi Homemade Mom Simply Designing

Thursday:

 Shabby Creek Cottage,  Delightful Order  House of Hepworths,   The Frugal Girls ,  Miz Helen's Country Cottage ,  The Thirty Sixth Avenue,  Thrifty 101, Diary of a Stay at Home Mom, Beyond the Picket Fence, A Glimpse Inside, MandatoryMooch, Think Tank, The Real Thing with the Coake Family,Life we Live 4,Somewhat Simple The Girl Creative

Friday:

The Shabby Nest ,  Fingerprints on the Fridge ,  Chic on a Shoestring, Life as Mom ,  Miss Mustard Seed ,  Tidy Mom ,  Whipperberry,  French Country Cottage  30 Handmade Days ,  Finding Fabulous ,   Naptime Crafters Tatertots and Jello,My Romantic Home , While He was Napping , Comfy in the Kitchen,  Bacon Time with the Hungry, Hungry Hippo,  The Country Cook,  Six Sister's Stuff, Kitchen Fun With My Three Sons, Ann Kroeker Writer,, Simply Sweet Home, Craft Junkie Too, , Happy Hour Projects,Young and Crafty, Five Days Five Ways, At Home With Bobi, A Peek into ParadiseCity of CreativeDreams

 Saturday:

Funky Junk Interiors,  Young and Crafty ,  Be Different, Act Normal ,  A Vision to Remember, Sweet as Sugar Cookies, Positively Splendid, It's Overflowing, The Artsy Girl Connection, Craft Envy, Too Much Time On My Hands, Something Swanky Sassy Little Lady,

Or So She Says, Tutus and Tea Parties, Your Home Based Mom

Sunday:

  Under the Table and Dreaming ,  DIY Showoff ,  Nifty Thrifty Things,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff