Ribs and Corn, yummy easy and fast dinner...

I have to admit, when I travel to the states I like to go into the grocery stores and check out what they have there and can't get here in Canada.  There are staples that we always pack home like Red Vines, love them.  But I also like to look in the spice isle for new spice packets or these pre-package dinner ideas.  They are handy, almost always good and easy.  Tonight we tried the Knorr Roasters Southern Style BBQ with some spareribs that were on sale this week.

I didn't end up using all the meat since there was only going to be two of us dining tonight and the bag is actually quite small.  I already didn't have all the meat in a single layer like it suggests.  It also says in the instructions that you may use chicken which would have been yummy as well.  I also cooked for two hours since I used much for meat that their suggestions as well.

After two hours (I also cooked a couple potatoes on the same pan) it looked like this and was ready to come out.  Clean up was easy and fast, love that.  I did let them rest for a couple minutes to let the steam out.  After I took the ribs out I poured the remaining juices into a gravy separator, I wanted to pour the sauce out but not the fat.

I did like these the flavour wasn't over powering, juicy and tender.  Oven bags are a great way to cook ribs, they don't dry out at all.  Defiantly recommending these Knorr's Roasters, can't wait to try a different one.

As another side, I made this corn recipe from Pinterest, Addicting Corn Recipe.  It was quite good but I don't follow the recipes completely.  I didn't used all the Paprika, only have and I used Smoked instead of regular.  I will make this again but I will probably only use half again but of regular Paprika.

Try my recommendations and let me know how they worked out for you.  Thanks:)

Pulled Pork and Ciabatta

Today for dinner we had pulled pork and ciabatta bread.  The pulled pork was from Costco:

The flavours were really good.  A little too saucy for me but it was quick and easy since it was just my daughter and me home for dinner tonight.

I wanted to use the ciabatta that I made earlier today with it.  I think the ciabatta was a little too thick crusted and heavy for this type of meal.  Just made it really messy but the flavours were great together.  Next time I have this pulled pork I will used just a regular dinner roll so that it is softer to soak up the sauce.

I hope you enjoy this post, I plan on blogging more regular now.  Let's get cookin'.

Mexican Pork Chops

Mexican Pork Chops was a freezer meal that I had prepped in one of my earlier posts which I prepared this week for dinner.  The recipe was from the 30 Day Gourmet Website.  I had always had great luck with their recipes so I was really looking forward to this one.

I thawed out the package in the fridge:

Sprayed a baking dish with cooking spray and assembled the casserole.

The photos do look horrible, I have to work on my photography skills.

Baked in oven for an hour, removed foil and put the shredded cheese on and baked for another 15 minutes.

The meal smelled really good while it was cooking.

As I had mentioned I was really looking forward to tasting this meal and I have to admit I was disappointed.  Yes it did smell amazing, the pork chops were cooked nicely and the rice was not over done but the flavours just weren't right.  It wasn't inedible but I will not be making it again and for once do not recommend this recipe, which surprised me because I do love 30 Day Gourmet.

I do still have a couple more pork chop meals that I prepped that day and I am sure they will be good.  I will post about that soon.

Happy cooking!

Marinade for Pork Chops

On my previous post I made four freezer meals with pork chops that we on sale.  It took very little time to prep these meals and have made a couple.

I thawed out the Pork in the marinade in the fridge.

Discarded the liquid and grilled the chops.  Super simple, fast dinner.

They were very tasty and will defiantly be making again.  This would be a great camping meal too since clean up is fast.

Here is the recipe, can be multiplied easily.

Marinade for Pork

6 Pork Chops
16 oz. Pineapple Juice
1/2 cup Soy Sauce
1 tsp. ground Ginger
1/2 tsp. minced Garlic
1/3 cup Italian Dressing

Combine all marinade ingredients.  Place meat in freezer bags or containers.  Pour marinade over meat.  Freeze.

Serving Directions:
Thaw.  Grill, broil or pan fry pork chops until browned on both sides and no longer pink in the centre.  Discard marinade.

I served mine with rice and steamed broccoli, will me making again, soon!

4 Pork Chop Freezer Meals

Pork chops were on sale for a great price a couple of weeks ago so I thought I would do up some freezer meals to take advantage of the great prices and save some time as well.

All recipes are from the 30 Day Gourmet website or cookbook.  I have tried a few other freezer meal cookbooks but this is the best.  The flavours are always amazing and the recipes really work.  I have quite a few favourites and look forward to sharing them soon.

All of these recipes I have never tried before but since they were from 30 Day Gourmet I was quite confident that we would like them.

Using this staples I had on hand:

 Buying the pork chops for a very decent price:

This is what I made:

Saucey Oven Pork Chops

Teriyaki Pork Chops

Marinade for Pork

Mexican Pork Chops

 Ready for the freezer, all the meals were easy to prep and only two recipes required the pork chops to be browned.

Since the meals were made awhile ago, I have prepared/served a couple.  Will update this week.