Ranch and Garlic and Oh my!

There is a recipe floating around pinterest for ranch pork chops and I made it a while ago but I wasn't completely sold. It was good but nothing special. I had some thin chops in the freezer and soup in the pantry so I decided I would give it a second try today. The original recipe, or at least the one I saw first, was a picture (with no valid website linked). Pictured was a package of pork chops, the crock pot, cream of mushroom soup and ranch salad dressing mix/seasoning. So I threw it all in the crockpot until the pork was cooked through and served it with rice.

Today I tried to look up the picture on my Pinterest but I couldn't find it, I found a similar one though and that cook seared her pork chops first. SUCH a good idea. So I did that too. I seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic and seared the chops. I also decided to cube an onion and put it in the bottom of the crock pot.

I layered the chops on top of the onion generously topping each one with the ranch seasoning. I had 6 thin chops and I used 2 cans of mushroom soup on top of that. I cooked everything on low for about 6 hours.

While the chops were cooking I cubed up 6 small potatoes and got them boiling with 8, yes 8, large cloves of garlic. When tender I smashed them up a little then added butter and milk and sour cream and let my kitenaid finish the mixing. I love whipped potatoes, no lumps on my plates!

The onion, searing the pork and the garlic spuds really made the difference with this dinner. Try it, I promise you won't be disappointed.

PS, I know canned soup and ranch seasoning packets are not healthy or anywhere near clean eating but I feel like its okay once in a while :)

Happy eating!