Quick and Easy

I forgot to take a picture last night - I have no idea what I was thinking.  I made spicy honey chicken thighs, potato wedges and salad.  The chicken was o-kay.. It wasn't very "honey" though and I had thought they would be stickier.  The honey sauce was just honey and some apple cider vinegar so maybe that took away from the stickiness.  For the potato wedges I pre-boiled them and let them sit until I needed them.  I drained them, tossed them in some olive oil and salt and pepper, with a sprinkling of the Italian herbs, then put them on a pan in the oven under the broiler for about 20 minutes. The chicken was just laid out in the spice mix which included cumin, paprika, nutmeg and salt and salt and pepper.  Broiled for about 10 minutes (thickness dependent); take them out and add the honey coating, turn, another 10 minutes and everything was done. I'd done the coleslaw the night before. 

Tonight I made an apple cobbler which took about an hour so probably not a weeknight dish.  I've screwed up two apple crumbles recently so I tried the cobbler. I wasn't overly impressed with the biscuit topping but I think the shortcake recipe I have, with a strawberry rhubarb filling would be to die for so I will try that next time.  This was not the quick and easy part.  Since I'm extremely challenged when it comes to time, I made this first and then started dinner.  I put the water on for broccoli at 6:00.  I had been thinking potatoes and pork chops but I was hoping to eat before 7:00.

I opted for the rice from my sausage and rice that we love so much; this is a really impressive dish because once you know how to make it, you can experiment - lucky rice dish number two.  The pork chops were a fast fry on the griddle.  I am so thankful for that thing.

Rice: 25 minutes
sauté chopped celery stalk and about half of a chopped red onion; add a chopped garlic clove when the other two are translucent. 
I added some kielbasa for the meat because we had a quarter of a ring left.  Chopped it up and threw it in there for a few minutes. 
Add a cup of uncooked rice (just finished the first two dollar bag of parboiled tonight) and allow it to soak up the moisture then slowly add two cups of chicken stock.  I guess this is like a rice-a-roni dish only fresh. 

Steamed broccoli

Pork chops: 15 minutes
salt and pepper and fry.  It only took 15 minutes because we could only cook four at a time. 

Dinner was on the table at 6:40.

And, yes, I only remembered to take the picture after my dinner was half eaten.  Sorry about that :-o