I am a planner. Beyond a planner. Each night’s meal is planned out the week before so I can grocery shop accordingly, and of course dream all day about what will be had for dinner. In fact, even though I grocery shop on Fridays for the following week, I am already making the list on monday for when I shop again the next friday. I know, I’m weird.

The other day however, we were somehow out of just about everything. I had set out pork chops that morning to make, and while at work started thinking, what am I going to do with those???? Spontaneity is not my forte, even when it comes to cooking. You know that show Chopped on Food Network? Where contestants open a box to find a bunch of random ingredients and make something up? I could NEVER do that. Give me a few hours to plan though, and I could come up with something wonderful.

When I say spontaneity is not a gift of mine, I am being nice. Literally, when plans change it takes my mind ten minutes to process and be ok with it. So ya, I’m a planner. I tell you all this to say that I was quite pleased with myself the other night when I went against my planning nature, and whipped up this “spontaneous” recipe within minutes.

Driving home from work I started to think “hmm…what goes well with pork”…”apples!”…”oo, and we have pecans, and cranberries!” Dunzo, pork chops with apple, cranberry, and pecan chutney! Look at me I’m just soooo spontaneous

Give these pork chops a try…and spontaneously let me know what ya think!