Lemonade Pork Chops

So Shannon...I have been dreaming about your lemonade chicken since you posted it.  So finally yesterday I made a special trip to the store to buy the frozen lemonade concentrate... I came home...got ready to start it...and discovered I had no chicken!!!!!

So I looked up a lemonade recipe for pork chops (which I did have in the freezer).  Here is the one I used.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/lemonade-pork-chops/detail.aspx

It got 4 out of 5 stars and I would give it the same.  It was good.  Not my favorite meal ever.  But very good.

I didn't have celery salt so I just skipped it.  And I didn't let it marinate overnight (only for 2 hours).  Here are the directions the way I did it...

• 1 (6 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed (I thawed mine in the mocrowave for 30 seconds)  (I bought yellow because that was the only kind they had at Target)
• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon celery salt (I didn't use)
• 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 pounds thick cut pork chops or steaks

I doubled the sauce because that was the whole can of lemonade...but I had tons of sauce...so I probably didn't need to double it.  I let it marinate for 2 hours (24 hours would be better).  Sear on high heat to brown outside.  Bake covered at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until no longer pink in center (mine took a  little longer).  

I was going to make rice as suggested on the original recipe.  But I forgot.  So I made cornbread muffins, peas, cooked carrots and sliced oranges.  My family and I love cornbread (we like bread better than muffins---but that's not what I made yesterday).  I have made all kinds of recipes for cornbread and just keep coming back to Marie Calendars mix.  It is just add water.  (But the cornbread kind, not the corn muffin mix).  It is moist and delicious.  It is not quite as good as at the restaurant...but almost!


I am still going to make the lemonade chicken though someday Shannon.