Baked Pork Chops with Caramelized Onions and Apples (needs work)

For various reasons I cancelled our normal Wednesday dinner this week.  Nancy is working late tonight, and we leave early tomorrow morning to go get Jean from college.  I felt like having pork chops for dinner, but not much like cooking - I'd spent most of the day volunteering at The Opportunity Shop.  So I tried a scaled-down version of a wonderfully simple recipe I found on Mel's Kitchen Cafe http://www.melskitchencafe.com/tender-pork-chops-with-caramelized-apples-and-onions/.  Put everything in the baking pan, cover it tightly with aluminum foil, stick it in the preheated oven, and leave it for three hours!

Mine came out with the onions and apples sort of a hot, dark mess.  The pork chop was good, tho!  Perhaps the aluminum foil was not airtight.  Or something else went wrong.

INGREDIENTS

2 pork chops

1 small onion, sliced

1 apple (recipe calls for Granny Smith; I used what I had - Gala)

2 Tbsp unpacked brown sugar

Salt & pepper

Olive oil

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Lightly grease/oil small baking pan (big enough to hold pork chops in single layer, and easy to tightly cover with aluminum foil).  Place onion slices in single layer evenly over bottom of pan.  Place apple slices next.  Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over all.  Salt & pepper both sides of the chops and place the chops in the baking pan.  Tightly cover pan with aluminum foil.  Put in oven and bake for 3 hours.  Do not open the oven or peek under the foil.

Nutritional information:  Makes 2 servings, per serving = 280.8 calories, 12.4 g fat, 53.3 mg cholesterol, 118.7 mg sodium, 25.6 g carbs, 2.6 g dietary fiber, 19.6 g protein