Pork chops

I have two Instant Pots:  a small one and a big one.  I really haven't used them much, except for beef roasts, and sometimes a Chinese sesame chicken item... which I'd love to have today if I have all the ingredients!

I know we eat more meat than is healthy, but at our ages we really don't pay much attention to healthy eating.  I buy whatever kind of meat is on sale, and we always have plenty of meat in our freezer.  I buy more 80/20 ground beef than anything, because I can make so many different things with it.  But a couple days ago I was wanted something different, and I dug out a package of six one-inch-thick, boneless pork chops.  I must have felt very brave when I bought it, because I've never been good at pork chops; they always turned out tough!  I tend to worry they won't be done so I cook them too long, knowing pork definitely needs to be cooked well.  Realizing I was going to have to use them sometime, I looked up Instant Pot recipes, found one that looked weird to me, but decided to try it.  I promised myself I would do it exactly as the recipe said, and was amazed at how good it was.  It's called The Best Damn Instant Pot Boneless Pork Chops!  

I only used three of the pork chops though, figuring I'd try a different recipe  for the other three the next day.  It was very good too, and very different from the other one.  The only thing about it was that that first recipe said to brine the chops, which I did.  It was fine for that recipe, but I brined all six of them and left the three I didn't use in the brine until the next day.  Well, let's just say the gravy was very salty.  I had never brined anything before, so what would I know!  The chops were fine, but if we put more than a tablespoon of gravy on our mashed potatoes, it was too much, although the grandson came over and ate with us and thought it was great.  

We are back in the single digits as far as the temperatures are going, so I'm reading a lot.  There's snow on the ground again, too.  We'll take the dog to Bed and Bones today for his haircut, but that's about all the excitement we can stand.

That's all, folks!

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Wow.  As a fairly new football fan, I had a strange feeling all day yesterday.  At church when someone asked about the Super Bowl game, I told them I had no idea who would win.  What I didn't mention was that I had a feeling they'd lose.  All day, Cliff and I hardly mentioned the game.  After it started turning out so awful right from the beginning, I went to bed at half time.  But first I told Cliff, "I had a feeling."  He said he, also, had that feeling all day.  

You know, sometimes if you get too high and mighty, you get a hard lesson.  Right before the game I the camera went to Patrick Mahomes; he was yawning and I wondered what that was about.  How could he yawn at a time like that?  And let's face it, the team hasn't had the best season.    

It's time for the fans of another team to have some fun.  I intend to always watch the Chiefs games, win or lose... although I might go to bed at half time a lot!  We've had a lot of fun since I started watching football with Cliff in 2020.  I feel sorry for the team, but they're all millionaires, while we live on our monthly social security .  I know the Chiefs aren't worrying about me!

Peace.