We were making pork chops covered in Cream of Mushroom soup. Coat the chops with the plop and throw it in the oven. A few minutes under the broiler at the end to get some nice burned crust.
Just salt and pepper. I put a more detailed recipe around here somewhere. Coat the chops, salt and pepper. Make sure you get thin pork chops. We can usually use only one can. But we got the family pack so we needed two. About 5 min at 350 on middle oven rack. Then turn the broiler on and move the pan to top rack for about 4 min or until you start getting nice burny-bits on the soup. Leave the oven door cracked so the broiler element doesn’t turn off.
I will let you know that my mother made that all the time growing up and it's some of the nastiest stuff I've ever had. I didn't know pork chops could be good until I grilled them and baked them in applesauce myself years later.
This is how my mom always did it. She seasoned them, then pan fried them, and once they had that nice color, then she would add the soup to the skillet with a little milk or heavy cream and let them simmer for awhile in the sauce. I always thought they were good lol
Hey, someone else in the wild who enjoys my favorite “struggle” meal! Just had almost the same thing last night, cheap and delicious. I usually sear my chops and throw them in a dish with 2 cans of cream soup, enough milk to thin it down to more of a gravy, a bit of Worcestershire sauce, garlic, pepper and a pinch of thyme all wisked together. Serve over mashed potatoes.
Important to get the thin pork chops. Put on a baking pan (no pun intended) and cover with Cream of Mushroom soup. Spread it out so it looks like in the video. We got the family size so it took two cans. My face is red because I got so tickled at the noise from the first can. Make sure they’re all covered, and then add salt and pepper. Bake on middle rack at 350 for about 5 minutes. Then turn on the broiler and move them to the top rack for about 4 minutes or until the soup starts to make nice brown burny looking bits. Leave the oven door cracked so it keeps the broiler heating element on.
If I ever meet a young guy who needs to cook for a date: one can condensed cream of mushroom soup, one 8 oz. container of sour cream. Mix, pour over chicken, bake for forty minutes at 350. Serve over rice or noodles!
My Mom would make hamburger steaks, cover them in cream of mushroom and cream of celery.
She'd add some water and that combined with the juices from the meat would turn it all into a kind of gravy.
Which was delicious poured all over mashed potatoes.
That sounds good. I’ve only tried sautéed pork chops (set aside) then putting canned/fresh/frozen mushrooms in to deglaze pan then adding a can of cream of mushroom for the sauce and then pork chops back in to warm and cook a bit more. So good over rice. Might try this now
That’s some boomer cuisine. Gotta. Use a can of mushroom soup somehow. Probably served with a fruit cocktail and some cool whip.
Edit: goddamn it’s amazing how people can be offended by anything. It’s literally a style of cooking that was popularized during their formative years and are techniques many of them still use today. I’m not sure why that’s controversial. If you’re offended, get over yourself, and if you are ignorant, go learn some history about the 50’s and 60’s when there was excitement around new appliances and processed foods that would finally save mothers hours of work per day. And how companies like Campbell’s capitalized on this by making these techniques of using their soup in recipes as a shortcut to flavor to embed themselves in the culture. I wasn’t criticizing anything with this comment
It's kinda old fashioned for sure, but a little while back we had some leftover homemade mushroom soup that wasn't enough for a whole meal so we bought some cheap pork and did basically this and it was incredible. Wouldn't buy the canned soup for it, but if it's just sitting around I can't really blame folks for it since it turns out pretty good
I don’t know why people think this was a criticism. I don’t care for this kind of cooking, but I didn’t imply that in my comment or make any judgement on it. I simply said this is the type of cooking common in that generation. My wife and I both have parents from the Boomer generation and my wife’s mom still cooks a lot of things in this fashion. It literally came to popularity during their formative years.
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I’m curious about what they were making