Pork chop with poached pears

I got this recipe off the internet. I must say though, it's not my favourite. I think in general, vegetables/ meat with cinnamon and brown sugar don't go that well together. I'm saying this because I remember 2 weeks ago when I attempted making cinnamon carrot sticks, the outcome was not pretty. Not my favourite taste so far! Though I must say with the pork chops, the poached pears were cooked perfectly. I dont' think I would make this recipe again though. It was interesting at the very least!

So what I did was:
season the pork chops with salt and pepper
pan fried the pork chops to brown it
baked it with poached pears, butter, cinnamon, brown sugar at 350F for 20-25 minutes
Voila!

Loin chops with garlic & herb butter from Gordon Ramsay’s Fast Food

I haven’t been able to sit down to do any of my med work yet. I have a quiz coming up in less than a week and I have around 3 weeks worth of schoolwork to catch up on…so I decided to accomplish something in my life aka cook something from Gordon Ramsay’s Fast Food cookbook that I just recently bought from amazon.ca. So here it goes:

For the garlic and herb butter sauce you blend some softened butter with garlic, herbs (parsley and mint) and salt and pepper. The actual recipe tells you to chill while you prepare the chops but I basically did the sauce making while preparing the chops

Then I seasoned the pork chops with freshly ground pepper + salt and pan fried it in the skillet (the actual recipe told me to use thyme sprigs but I didn’t have any and so I used rosemary sprigs).

It also says there to spoon the juices over the chops as it cooks, except that my chops had no juice to pan with so I was a little confused.

Then place the garlic and herb butter sauce onto the pork chops and VOILA, you are done! I also boiled some sweet corn on the side. Delish!

This has got to be one of the easiest recipes from Gordon Ramsay!

Pork chop with Piquant Sauce - Gordon Ramsay Style

So while I was in Canada I decided to start cooking from Gordon Ramsay's cook books (I bought 2 online off of amazon.ca). I chose pork chop with piquant sauce since my sister doesn't like steak/ lamb chops that much and I don't really like chicken, so pork is our common ground.
When I read recipes, I don't really read them carefully, so I did not pay attention to the fact thatI would need more tomatoes. So while making the piquant sauce, I had to cook it for longer and had to add more sugar than usual and had to keep on garnishing it. The sauce did turn out well (my sister said it was delicious) but for next time, read the recipe more carefully! Though my mom did say that real cooking doesn't involve recipes. (I do agree with that to some extent now...but when I first heard it I was like, come on mom, throw me a bone here...I just started cooking!) So here is the end product and at this point, I'm too lazy to write down how I made it: