Friday Night Feasting

          It doesn't take much to make a fabulous meal in a short amount of time.  During breakfast on Friday morning, Caroline and I made plans for supper.  We decided to have Daddy grill pork chops (we did ask him first if he would) and serve crowder peas, apple sauce, and mushroom Marsala sauce with the chops.  Anne Marie got some of our own farm-raised pork chops and a bag of homemade apple sauce out of the freezer, and Momma and I got mushrooms and Marsala wine from the grocery.  About 5:00 pm, I came in from checking on a bee hive to fix supper.  Momma had already started the crowder peas boiling in beef broth left over from a beef roast the we had cooked earlier that week.
          I put the apple sauce on the stove to warm, then mixed up the Carraba's Grill Seasoning from our Carraba's cook book to put on the pork chops.  In the meantime, Caroline washed the mushrooms for me and the Dutch oven heated for the Marsala sauce.

The seasoned pork chops waiting to go on the grill

           I browned the mushrooms, then added chopped homemade bacon, chopped onion, homemade chicken broth, and Marsala wine.

Browning the mushrooms

Chopping up the bacon

The Marsala sauce all mixed up

          The sauce reduced (i.e. boiled off some liquid) until the pork chops came off the grill at about 6:15.  All that remained was to load up the plates...

Mushroom Marsala sauce

Steaming hot crowder peas

Hot apple sauce

Grilled Greene Family Farm pork chops

...and eat.

Crowder peas, apple sauce, and a pork chop topped with mushroom Marsala and parmesan cheese

It didn't stand a chance.

Hannah