Open Source Cook

This recipe originally came from Relish and while it sounded good, I had to make a few adjustments since I don’t have a food processor. Here’s the description from the original article:

Seasoning grilled meat with garlic and a sugary marinade produces a Thai-style barbecue that works well with pork loin or chops. Adapted from The Barbecue Bible by Steven Raichlen (Workman, 1998).

So, the changes I made….one of the first instructions was to use the food processor on the garlic and sugar to form a paste. Well, I completely skipped this step. Instead, I put all the ingredients (minus the pork chops obviously) into a blender instead and just liquidized it. The garlic didn’t get mashed up as much as it would have in a food processor, but I also didn’t add as much garlic as they did either. We’re also giving this to our son, who’s only 18 months, so we didn’t want it too garlicky; but we still wanted the flavor, so I added about half of what is recommended.

I think we only marinated it for about 45 minutes and it still came out pretty good. I’m not a fan of pork, so I really didn’t have much, but the bite I did have was pretty good. I’ll let Jesse give an accounting for the taste, so check for his comment.

Ingredients:
4 (1-inch thick) or 8 (1/2–inch thick) pork chops (2 pounds total)
1 head garlic, broken into cloves and peeled
3 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup soy sauce
3 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons rice wine
2 tablespoons dark sesame oil
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Instructions:

1. Make 1 or 2 cuts in fat side of each chop to prevent curling.
2. In a blender, combine garlic, sugar, soy sauce, honey, wine, sesame oil, ginger, salt and pepper. Spread over both sides of chops, place chops in baking dish, cover and marinate in refrigerator 1 to 2 hours.
3. Preheat grill to high. Brush and oil grill grate. Place chops on grate and grill until brown 6 to 8 minutes per side for thick chops and half that time for thin, or until temperature on an instant-read thermometer is 160F. Serves

The weather has been getting hot lately, so Jesse and I have been looking for dinner meals that we don’t necessarily have to cook or anything we can throw on the grill. One thing we found that works beautifully….corn on the cob. It’s actually really easy. Wrap the ingredients in tin foil and stick it on the grill. Thirty minutes later and it’s done. We grilled a couple of ears last night along with a really nice cut of steak and dinner was a success.

We’re still looking for some really good meal ideas that are cool or can be made on the grill. So if anyone has any suggestions, we’re all ears.

Ingredients:
1 Corn on the Cob in the husk
1 tbsp of Butter or Margarine
3 tbsp crushed ice
tin foil

Directions:

1. Have enough tin foil to wrap each ear twice. Place all ingredients in tin foil and wrap.
2. Grill for 30 minutes.