Autumn Apple Pork Chops with Roosted Sweet Potatoes

4 Boneless Pork chops
2 Large Yams
¼ Cup Chopped Pecans
½ cup Diced Red Onion
1 medium Apple Sliced
1 ½ cups Apple Juice
3 tbs spoon Brown Sugar
2 tbs spoon Melted Butter
1 tbs spoon all purpose flower
cinnamon
nutmeg
Olive Oil

Cut Yams into ¼ - ½ inch cubes and spread out on lightly greased cookie sheets. Brush yams with olive oil and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Cook in 425 degree oven for 30 minutes. Rotate Yam cubes and cook until done (about 10 Minutes)While the yams are cooking, coat med frying pan with olive oil. Toss pecans in frying pan until slightly browned. Remove and set aside. Dust Pork Chops with Lemon pepper and cook in frying pan until done (about 20 min). Remove pork and cover with Aluminum Foil. Coat the bottom of frying pan in olive oil. Add onion and apple and sauté until the onions start to caramelize. Add apple juice. Mix together melted butter and flower to from a rue and to pan and stir. Add cinnamon and nutmeg to taste let reduce and slightly thicken. Remove Yams from oven and place on serving platter. Place pork chops on top of roosted yams and top with pan sauce and pecans. Serve.

My husband made this for dinner one night. It was delicious.

Christmas Vegtable Wreath

2 tubes (8 ounces each) refrigerated crescent rolls
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon dill weed
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1-1/2 cups chopped fresh broccoli florets
1 cup finely chopped cucumber

1/2 cup finely chopped sweet red pepper

Remove crescent dough from packaging (do not unroll). Cut each tube into eight slices. Arrange in an 11-in. circle on an ungreased 14-in. pizza pan.
Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before carefully removing to a serving platter; cool completely.
In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sour cream, dill and garlic powder until smooth. Spread over wreath; top with broccoli, celery and red pepper.

Yield: 16 servings.

I made this for a christmas party and it turned out great. You could use Hidden Valley Ranch for the cream cheese mixture. Other vegatable ideas are red tomatos, radishes, green pepper and celery.