Pork Chops for the Slow Cooker

Pork Chops 

The weather dipped to closed to -40 this week and its freezing! Been too busy with life and everything in between aswell! So my time in the kitchen these past few days have been limited. The more better excuse to take my out my slow-cooker. I rarely use my slow-cooker, and I truly appreciate it more so now...and of course it was given to me by John- he always get me a cool gadget or tools in the kitchen without me asking it. He knows how I love kitchen tools or anything with kitchen stuff. Really, it dawned on me why I never use it in the kitchen as much. Well, its going to get some using this week. Here's a pork-chop recipe for you to try. It's tender and smackingly delicious.

6-8 pork chops

1 cup brown sugar

1 tsp. ground ginger

salt and pepper

1/2 cup soy sauce

1 tsp. garlic powder or 3 cloves of garlic

1/2 cup rice wine vinegar or vinegar will do

1 cup ketchup

Throw all the ingredients in the crock-pot on high or low heat and let simmer for 5-6 hours. Stirring on occasions. 

The house smells amazing.......

*********I rarely use my crock-pot due to the fact, I'm always scared leaving it "ON" for  hours. I always use it when I'm around at home. Despite, what everyone says, "you can walk-away and leave it  for few hours", I always treat the slow-cooker as a stove, and it shouldn't be leaf unattended.{just my preference}.

Pork Chops! Yummo. This is really fork tender and delicious. I shouldn't say more, just go ahead and try this recipe for yourself at home.

Pork Adobo

Pork Adobo

I love adobo. I grew up eating this comfort food. It's so easy to make and pretty much the ingredients called for this recipe can be found in every kitchen home. There's alot of variations to this recipe, there's some that uses chicken, beef, and boiled eggs added {not too keen on this though}. I prefer it this way- simple and straighforward. I guess to each is own. But the base of this recipe is the same for all.{soy sauce, vinegar, and garlic}. Try this and you won't be disappointed. This is the most identifiable recipe to most filipinos.

Ingredients:

Pork or chicken {I've seen beef being used with this recipe}

1/2 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup vinegar

2 tbsp. brown sugar {add more if you want it to be sweeter}

2-3 cloves of garlic, salt and pepper to taste

peppercorns {optional}

1-2 bay leaves

1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar {optional}

1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce {optional}

Directions:

Combine soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper,  and cloves garlic. Add meat and bring to a boil for 10-15 minutes or until liquid is almost evaporated and the meat is tender. {cook meat longer if you want it more tender}. Add balsamic vinegar, and worcestershire sauce and let it simmer for another 5 minutes or so.{this  is  optional, I like adding balsamic vinegar and worcestershire sauce as I think it rounds up overall the flavor}.

 Bring the meat to simmer longer, or until liquid is almost dry. 

Pork Adobo.