What I Made for Dinner: Apple and Sage Pork Chops

Pork chops were on sale at Kroger this week.  Having never cooked them before, I thought this would be the golden opportunity to try the McCormick recipe I've had my eye on.  Since corn was on sale too, we got a great dinner for 3 for only $8, and we had leftovers.  Win-win.

Apple and Sage Pork Chops

Ingredients 

• (You can buy a McCormick seasoning packet with all of the spices in it in the baking aisle.)
• 1 1/2 tsp. Rubbed Sage
• 1 tsp. Minced Garlic
• 1 tsp. Thyme Leaves
• 1/2 tsp. Ground Allspice
• 1/2 tsp. Paprika
• 1 tbsp. flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• 4 boneless pork chop, 1 inch thick (about 1 1/4 lbs)
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 2 red apples, sliced
• 1/2 cup apple juice
• 1 tbsp. brown sugar

Cooking

The recipe calls for you to fry everything, but I grilled it instead.  So here's my audible:

1. Mix all of the spices, salt, oil, apple juice and flour in a small bowl.  
2. Lay pork chops in the bottom of a container.  Spread most of mixture on top.  Layer on apples and then onions, spreading remaining mixture on top.  Cover and let marinate in the refrigerator.  
3. Grill.  Shouldn't take more than 10 minutes on a hot grill.  I grilled the apples and onions in my beloved grilling pan (pictured below).  If you don't have a grilling pan you can just but them on foil.

It was great!  We all loved it.  It's a keeper.  

If you like to grill and don't have one of
these, it is worth the investment!  World Market.  

What I Made for Dinner

Tonight's dinner is brought to you by the grill.  I didn't get any pictures of the finished food (it went too fast!), but I do have some good recipes for y'all.

The Ultimate Chicken Burger

My One Goal for Today

I had one objective to accomplish today- grill a pork loin for the first time.  I came across it on sale, and I've been trying to get that sucker on my grill ever since.  Tonight I made it for me, my friend Meg, and her 2 ridiculously cute little girls.  That's right, 4 women grilling and eating a pork loin.  We're liberated.

So I randomly got this as an 'Easter Present' once from my
 mom and her husband.  In all reality, I think they took pity
on me trying to grill on a tiny little charcoal grill, and
felt like doing something nice.  I've fed people from 4
continents on this thing.  It also may or may not have
used to go USC tailgating every Saturday.  I love my grill.  

A little top-rack cooking should do the trick...

About 45 minutes later I moved it to the bottom
to get a good flavor on the outside, and tossed
some onions on too...

And then these guys showed up... :o)

Dinner was yummy, and afterwards we fired up the,
well, fire pit and made some s'mores.  

The adults may have had as much fun making s'mores as the kiddies...

Well, maybe not.  When we asked the girls to help carry the stuff back inside, Anna came out and said that she ate 6 more (big) marshmallows, and Hollyn had so much melted marshmallow in her hair that Meg thought she was going to have to cut it out.  Ain't no party like a s'mores party!