Pork Chops with roasted Sweet Potato, Tomatoes and Garlic covered in Honey and Balsamic Vinegar

Hello

This evening I cooked pork chops for the first time and they were so good. I wanted to make dinner and if I ate one more piece of chicken I might sprout wings so decided on pork chops. On my and my mothers weekly trip to ALDI  today, we picked up six Irish pork chops for 4.99 euro! We also bought some sweet potatoes (which are cheaper in Tesco fyi), and some of my new favourite taste, balsamic vinegar.

This meal as always is really easy.I love one pan dishes where you just throw everything in one big roasting dish and then everyone helps themselves. I am a great believer in just lashing stuff on and seeing how it turns out. Fortunately this time everything turned out edible and not looking half bad either which is always a bonus.

Here is the recipe, method and some pictures.

Enjoy

Roz x

 

Ingredients (serves 2-4 people)

6 Pork Chops

1 large Sweet Potato, chopped and cubed

4 Tomatoes, quartered (could also use cherry tomatoes)

6 cloves of Garlic (more or less depending on what you like)

Half a Lemon juice

Salt and Pepper

Balsamic Vinegar

Honey

Method

Chop sweet potato and peel garlic.

Place in roasting dish and sprinkle with balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and honey.

Place in oven for about 20 mins at 200 degrees.

Fry and slightly brown pork chops.

Add to roasting dish with tomatoes. Add lemon juice.

Leave for about another 20 minutes.

Serve and enjoy!

Sweet Potato

Out of the oven

 

 

Vegetable Lasagne

Hello

Tonight for dinner I made a vegetable lasagne for the first time. Thrifty as ever I checked the press before I went out meaning I only ended up spending 4.36 euro on ingredients. That’s dinner for under a fiver!

In my lasagne I had courgettes, peppers and cherry tomatoes. Of course it is completely up to you what you decide to put in depending on what you like you could also use onions, aubergines, carrots, broccoli etc. I also bought and used mozzarella cheese for the first time and with a price of .59 cent, I will definitely be buying it again. This dish needs some fresh bread to soak up all the sauce and maybe even a nice glass of wine ;).

Try this dish yourself. It’s perfect for a vegetarian or also perfect for a change from meat for us carnivores :).

Enjoy 

Roz x

Ingredients (Serves 3-4)

1 red Pepper, chopped

1 yellow Pepper, chopped

1 Mozzarella Ball, sliced

A handful of Cherry Tomatoes, halved

2 Courgettes

A jar of Pasta Sauce

White Sauce (can be bought or home-made)

2 cloves of Garlic, crushed

Pasta Sheets

Method

Fry chopped courgettes and peppers for about 10-15 minutes.

Place slightly cooked vegetables at the end of dish. 

Cover with pasta sheets.

Add pasta sauce followed by white sauce.

Add more vegetables. Repeat above steps.

On top layer of sauce place the chopped cherry tomatoes and sliced mozzarella.

Place in the over for about 45 minutes at 180 degrees until bubbling.

Serve and enjoy!

 

Before

After 🙂