When I got married, my wife brought along some recipes. One of those was for a dish called Swiss Cheese Chicken. It really was just a good, simple dish – and  I love it. Last night was one of those nights that I actually had some time to cook dinner – I love cooking, no doubt about it, I do love it.

In fact I remember one time, I had just started dating this girl – but she had been asked out to some school dance before we started going out. No biggie, but here’s the catch. She asked if I would cook them dinner – I said “Sure!”, because I love cooking. At any rate, as I digress here…

So moving on to the actual dish. The prep time varies because if you have frozen pork chops then they’ll take awhile to defrost – I don’t like to use the microwave to defrost, because it can cook edges and turn out gross, I like to let them sit on the counter or if I’m pressed for time use hot water to thaw.

Another thing to note, I don’t regularly follow recipes. What I mean is I use them as a rough guide to how to prepare the dish. In this case – I don’t even know if there is a recipe, and the parts that did were only used to for the measurements in it – you’ll see in a minute.

This is for a 9×9 glass baking dish.

• 1 box stuffing mix (whatever flavor, I happened to have some house brand chicken flavored)
• 4 good sized pork chops (mine were ones I cut from a giant pork lion I got at Sam’s Club on sale)
• swiss cheese slices (8 to be exact, but you could reduce to 4)

So first, I cooked up the stuffing – pretty much followed the directions, except: I probably added more then the recommend amount of butter. All I had was one of those big blocks of butter with no measurements on it. I also added some craisins and cashews to the mix. Makes it all gourmet and stuff…once it was done, I put the chops on the George Foreman grill. Also, preheat your over to 350.

Now smear the stuffing mix into the backing dish like so.

You can decide how you want to do the cheese it’s up to you. Since I’m using 8 slices, that’s what goes on next.

Another note, undercook the pork chops. The over will finish the job and you don’t want dry chops. So gather those yummy looking chops off the grill, or pan, or however cooked them. and lay them ontop. Now slip that gorgeous dish into the over. Cook it for about 10 minutes.

The next step is the last really. If you skipped the other 4 pieces of cheese, that’s okay because you’re gonna lay another 4 pieces on top of it. So it’s up to you on how much cheese you want in the dish – I’m a cheese fan, so I doubled up. Once you get the dish out to put the cheese on top, switch your over over to broil. Broil until it’s browned and crispy on top.

See, how yummy does that look? I say a lot better than my latest attempt at Lasagna. But give it a whirl, it’s super easy and is great for all kinds of mods. Also remember, this was based on the Chicken version so if you’re not a pork fan try chicken. You could even try a Cordon Bleu version, or Turkey. The possibilities are crazy.

Hope You Enjoy…