First dinner home was the beet gnocchi and the cashew pesto that I had made and frozen.  We really liked this combination.  Monday after painting class we went to the grocery store together.  That night we had a salad of tomatoes, avocado, romaine, dried chick peas with raspberry vinaigrette.  I was going to put canned tuna in it, but Costco had a great looking piece of tuna, so we had it grilled.  

Before leaving I bought a new Weight Watcher Cookbook called Dinners in a Flash.  We used it for the first time Tuesday night.  Surprise the dish was wonderful, easy, and fast.  We loved the sauce, and green beans.  Jim thought the chops were tough.  Mine wasn’t, but that is not the recipe ’s fault anyway.  We drank French rose’.  

Ingredients: 

4 (1/2#) lean boneless center-cut pork loin chops, trimmed

3/4 t salt

1/2 t pepper

2 t EVOO (I sprayed the skillet with Pam.)

1/4 C onion (did not use, see below)

2 T fig jam (My jam was fig onion jam, so I did not use the onion)

1/4 C reduced sodium chicken broth

1/2 C water

1# pre trimmed fresh green beans

2 T grated Parmesan

Directions:

1. Sprinkle pork with 1/2 t salt and 1/4 t pepper.  heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat.  Add pork and cook, turning once, until instant-read thermometer inserted into the sides of each chop registers 145 degrees F about 6 min.  (Mine took longer, and were thicken than 1/2”)
2. To make the sauce, reduce heat to medium.  Add onion to skillet and cook, stirring constantly , until the onion is golden, about 1 minute.  Add broth and jam to skillet.  Cook, stirring to scrape up browned bits on bottom of skillet, until jam is melted, 1-2 minutes.  
3. Meanwhile, bring water to boil in a large skillet.  Add green beans and cook, covered, just until crisp tender, about 5 minutes.  Drain and toss with parmesan, remaining 1/4 t salt and remaining 1/4 t pepper.  Place green beans on serving platter.  Top with chops and spoon sauce over chops.  (I boil my beans a little longer.  I also put salt in the water not on the beans.)

All of this was just 6 points.  My guess is that one of my pork chops was more like 6 oz.