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Thursday, October 22, 2026

Winter Fried Pork Chop Dinner in Norfolk, Virginia by Ruth Paget

Winter Fried Pork Chop Dinner Combination by Ruth Paget 

This fried pork chop dinner is one I often prepared as a Navy wife when I lived oceanside in Norfolk, Virginia. 

Norfolk winters are rainy and cold with Nor’Easters, winter hurricanes, always a possibility. This cozy-in-winter dinner combination was very easy to put together during the week, if I fried thin apple slices in butter with a little brown sugar on the weekends and stored them in the refrigerator. 

To prepare this fried pork chop dinner combination, I did the following: 

1-I would fry thin apple slices with the skins on in butter with brown sugar added in at the end and then store the slices in the refrigerator on the weekend. 

2-I would fry medium size pork chops for 20 to 30 minutes depending on the size. 

3-While the pork chops were frying, I would bake frozen French fries. I would place frozen French fries on parchment paper to bake and add salt at the end of baking. 

4-At the end of pork chop frying, I would heat the refrigerated fried apple slices in the microwave. 

5-When everything was hot at the same time, I would build my protein-carbohydrate-fruit plate for each person: 

-1 pork chop 

-1 cup French fries 

-1 cup butter fried apple slices 

This cozy winter meal seemed to taste better with wind howling and rain pelting the windows outside. 

Bon appétit! 

By Ruth Paget

-author Eating Soup with Chopsticks, Marrying France, and Europe's Lessons written during overseas duty in Germany + 5 other Kindle books

-developer of the Novgorod and Bento War Game + 8 Classical Western Civilization War Games

-developer of food and beverage knowledge games

-creator of online exhibits about San Miguel Arcangel Mission, French baguette making, and the Carmel Valley History Center

-creator of French travel and culture games

-writer of 2000+ Central Coast California lifestyle blogs

-family genealogist

-developer of 9 music theory games