My dad passed down this cheap dinner trick. Just 4 ingredients for the most melt in your mouth meal you will ever serve your family this spring.

This slow cooker 4-ingredient brown sugar pork chop recipe is one of those thrifty, almost-too-easy tricks that feels like it shouldn’t work as well as it does. My dad made a version of this when I was growing up in the Midwest, usually on busy weeknights when money and time were both tight. He leaned on pantry staples—brown sugar, a basic bottle of Italian dressing, and a little soy sauce—to transform inexpensive bone-in pork chops into something that tasted like it came from a cozy neighborhood restaurant.

A long, gentle