"Vienna Rathaus" Pork Chops with Apple Yams

While studying abroad in Vienna I ate a dish that was quite similar to this one and although it was pork it tasted like a little Thanksgiving. The City Hall or "das Rathaus" was one of my favorite buildings in Vienna which was clad in vibrant red flowers spilling out of the flower boxes.

Ingredients,

• 2 pork chops
• salt and pepper
• 3 slices of bacon
• 1 small red onion
• 2 sweet potatoes, sliced into small pieces
• 1 apple (I use a yellow apple), sliced into small pieces
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper

How to make it,

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. 
2. Chop the apple, yam, onion with the brown sugar and blend in a blender until blended into small bits, this can take a little while (and try some shaking of the blender) if it is not so great like my blender...
3. Cook the bacon in a pan, then set aside. Save a bit of the grease from the bacon in the pan.
4. Season pork chops with salt and pepper then brown on either side in the same pan that the bacon was cooked in just a few minutes on each side.
5. Layer the yam mixture and then the pork chops in a glass baking dish and cook for 1 hour covered with foil until the yams are tender. 
6. Plate the yams then top with the pork chop, add a few bacon slices on top and enjoy this mini Thanksgiving.