pork

Name: Grilled Ginger-Sesame Pork Chops with Pineapple and Scallions
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 1/4 cup fresh lime juice; 1/4 cup sesame oil; 1/4 cup reduced sodium soy sauce; 3 tablespoons grated fresh ginger; 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice; 2 tablespoons rice vinegar; 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; 1 tablespoon packed dark brown sugar; 1/2 teaspoon orange zest; Six 3/4-inch-thick boneless center-cut pork chops; 1 pineapple, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch-thick rings, and cored; 1 bunch scallions, cleaned and trimmed

Mu Shu Pork Quesadillas

Aug 09, 2018

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Mu Shu Pork Quesadillas – grilled flour tortillas filled with slow cooked pork, cabbage, mushrooms, green onions, a hoisin sauce, and lots of Monterey Jack cheese!

Can you believe its time to talk about back to school already?

We still have about a week and a half of summer left but all my friends from home are already sending their kids to school! Crazy!

We have started our fall activities though, which means we have football practice 3 nights a week, the littles have gymnastics, and we start soccer any day now.

I’m honestly not sure how I’m going to pull it all off this fall.
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Honey Ham Biscuits

Mar 20, 2018

A delicious way to use leftover ham: Honey Ham Biscuits! Only 4 ingredients and they will be the star of your brunch!

Originally published on April 7, 2014. Updated on March 20, 2018.

The kids went back to school yesterday.

Hallelujah.

I did as every mom does after a solid 10 days with no break.

I got a spray tan and then drove an hour to the nearest Whole Foods for coconut flour tortilla chips and a bag of vegan peanut butter M&Ms.

Boyfriend was all, “You go to the coffee shop to work this morning?”

Umm.

Yeah, totally.

Anyway, I knocked out, like, 10 recipes last week while they were home and asking a billion questions every minute of the day so you better believe I have a yoga class scheduled this morning and then plan to spend at least 3 hours strolling around the library.

Might even sit in my car and watch Instagram stories without interruption for awhile before driving home.
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52 Pizzas – Pesto Sausage Pizza with Mushrooms and Olives

Jan 28, 2018

You guys.

I didn’t think this post was going to happen this week.

Months ago I started complaining that my oven temp was off because all my cookies were turning out flat and I almost had a full on breakdown a few weeks ago when boyfriend asked for cookies for a work thing and both batches came out flat and I had to send them anyway because he didn’t tell me until the night before.

Not that I’m still upset about it or anything.

Men though.

So yeah, it finally stopped working this week. And I, of course, didn’t realize it until after I thought it had been preheating for 20 minutes and was about to put 2 sheets of veggies in for dinner.

Ugh.

Anyway, the guy came out the next day and got it heating up again but now the whole house smells like gas when I turn it on and maybe I just won’t bake anything else until I move out of here.
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Easy Pork Gyros

Sep 20, 2017

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Easy Pork Gyros – delicious gyros in less than 30 minutes! Marinated pork wrapped in soft pita bread with veggies and tzatziki sauce.

You guys.

I know it’s only the middle of September but the kids and I went and got Halloween costumes.

My house has been decorated for a month.

It was 95 degrees outside today but I had pumpkin candles going in every room.

Someone stop me.

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BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza

May 30, 2017

BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza recipe – delicious sweet and spicy pizza. Layers of barbecue sauce, pulled pork, jalapenos, pineapple, and lots of cheese!

Heeeey guys, how was the long weekend?! What’d you grill?

I grilled nothing. Let’s be real, I still don’t know how to work either of the 2 grills on my back porch. All those posts about grilled stuff? Someone had to come help me.

I know.

What kind of food blogger am I?

So I ended up hiking with the husky, as I do most weekends I don’t have the kids. I’ve got some heavy stuff going on right now and it helps to be totally alone in the woods with nothing to do but sort things out in my head.

Plus, the husky loves it.

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Cubano Tacos

May 17, 2017

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Change up taco night with Cubano Tacos! It’s everything you love about a Cuban sandwich but as a taco!

Okay.

Let’s address it.

Yes, I put pickles on tacos.

But stay with me.

You like a Cuban sandwich, right? Who doesn’t love a Cuban sandwich?! So this is a Cuban sandwich. But as a taco.

Eh? It’s a good idea, right?

I had 4 the night I made them.

A few more the next day. I’m a little obsessed.

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Sweet Pork Tacos with Cilantro Ranch Dressing

Feb 27, 2017

Slow Cooker Sweet Pork Tacos with Cilantro Ranch Dressing – crockpot shredded pork cooked in a sweet and spicy sauce. Use it to make tacos or burrito bowls and top with easy and delicous homemade cilantro ranch dressing!

(This post originally published in 2014. Photos updated on February 18, 2017.)

Can we talk TV for a minute? I have to get this off my chest.

We finished Breaking Bad last week. I have heard so much about it over the past few years so I just knew we were going to love it. We kind of hated it. Well, we hated the first 3 seasons. It took us 3 months to get through them. I finally got really into it in the last episode of the 4th season. Like, really into it. Like, WE HAVE TO WATCH ALL THE EPISODES RIGHT NOW into it. And then when we finally made it to the very last episode? That everyone said was perfect? That everyone said they cried over?

It was stupid. And I hated it. And I wish I’d never even started the show.

Ugh. It was like LOST Part 2 for me. Super frustrating ending where nothing was really wrapped up.

I’ve given up on TV. Except I’m currently marathoning The White Queen (again) because I’ve been sucked into The Cousins’ War book series by Phillippa Gregory (again).

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Slow Cooker Pork and Butternut Squash Stew

Oct 13, 2016

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Okay guys, real talk.

I broke the driver’s side window of my car.

“How’d you manage that one, Amanda?”

Well, it’s a Wrangler so the windows unzip and the zipper broke.

Okay, fine, I broke both zippers. Which is okay most of the time since I normally have at least the back windows off anyway. But y’all, it’s cold in the mornings and at night in central Texas now. I was shivering on my way back from Austin last week.

An hour and a half at 75 MPH with the window down at 10 pm?

It was cold.

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Mu Shu Pork Lettuce Wraps

Aug 22, 2016

Hey guys!

First day of school here.

I’m a little excited.

And by a little, I mean I can barely contain myself.

I am counting down the minutes until I can drop them off.

I have a full day planned and there won’t be a single kid present.

This is the best day of my life.

We really lucked out this year and for the third year in a row, got a teacher that I absolutely adore. My middle kid had her twice in a row and now my youngest has her.

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Grilled Lemon Thyme Pork Chops with Peaches

Jul 28, 2016

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Grilled Lemon Thyme Pork Chops with Peaches – delicious and easy way to cook pork chops! Pork chops and peaches marinated in a lemon thyme marinade and grilled to perfection. Ready in 20 minutes!

Happy almost Friday, guys!

I’ve got the urge to get out of town this weekend but I have too many dogs and too many kids to just pick up and leave. So I’m probably going to settle for lying in a beach chair in my backyard and watching all of season 5 of New Girl.

Aaaaaand I bought a new grill this week so I’ll probably grill every meal. I’m pretty excited about that.

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Crockpot Apple Cranberry Pork Tenderloin

Nov 19, 2015

This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/Smithfield at Walmart.

Can you tell what my favorite combo is right now?

I’m obsessed with apple cranberry everything. By the weekend, I’ll probably be dipping apple slices into cranberry sauce and calling it dinner. That’s how obsessed I am.

I went to make my usual pork with apples and bacon last week and realized I could do apple and cranberry instead and practically cried. Happy tears, of course!

I used a Smithfield All Natural Pork Tenderloin for this recipe. These are my absolute favorite tenderloin (and pork brand in general!) because they are all natural, they don’t add steroids or hormones to their products, and they never add artificial ingredients.

I love that Smithfield is committed to producing quality pork with animals raised in the US and that the company itself partners and supports local farms all over the country.

I also love that I can get them at my local Walmart. Quality pork at a reasonable price? Sign me up!

This Crockpot Apple Cranberry Pork Tenderloin is scrumptious! Pork tenderloins just work so perfectly in the crockpot. They practically fall apart and I won’t like, I only sliced it for the photos. I shredded all of it as soon as I was done because I love it that way.

And then I covered it in sauce, of course. The sauce, you guys! So the pork cooks on top of apples and onions and then it’s covered in cranberry sauce. So just imagine how tasty that sauce is! I thickened it up with some cornstarch and it was perfect!

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Cuban Sandwich (plus a cookbook giveaway!)

May 13, 2015

Happy Wednesday!

I’m pretty excited because I have a giveaway today! I’ve been trying to give away a cookbook every month – like, you know, a cookbook that came out that month. It was going to be my thing this year. But then the book I bought for March was kind of a dud. I still haven’t made anything from it.

And then I ordered the Whole 30 cookbook for April and just got distracted with the move and then being so sick. That one’s awesome though. Highly recommend it for anyone looking to eat healthier.

Now I’m back on track and I have a really great book this month!

It’s Pure Pork Awesomeness by Kevin Gillespie and it really is all pork and all awesomeness.

I pre-ordered this one months ago because I loooove Kevin Gillespie. He’s probably my favorite Top Chef contestant of all time – mostly because everything he does involves pork!

There are so many delicious looking recipes in this book. I made Tacos al Pastor for Taco Tuesday last week and they were so delicious. My kids don’t like tacos (clearly there was a mix up in the hospital – 3 times) but they wolfed those down.

And then last night I made these Cuban Sandwiches. I’ve never actually had a Cuban Sandwich but between his cilantro mayo and the slow-cooked pork, I was sold.

These were probably the best sandwiches I’ve ever had. Ever. In my entire life.

I already mentioned the mayo and the pork – there’s also two kinds of cheese, pickles, ham, and rich, delicious bread.

I’m pretty sad that we have no leftovers.

Enter below for a chance to win a copy of the book! And good luck!

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Grilled Ginger-Sesame Pork Chops with Pineapple and Scallions

May 11, 2015

Grilled Ginger-Sesame Pork Chops with Pineapple and Scallions – pork chops marinated in a ginger sesame citrus marinade and grilled with pineapple and green onions.

Happy Monday! I hope your weekend was fabulous and if you’re a mother (to a human, dog, cat, ferret, whatever), I hope your Mother’s Day was amazing and filled with yummy food.

Mine was great – we tried another Mexican restaurant because we still haven’t found one we love here and then since it was my day, I forced all the boys to go to Petsmart with me to play with all the homeless cats.

I have to tell you about what happened to me on Saturday though!

I took a couple of the kids with me to check out the mall and then we went grocery shopping. Okay so $300 worth of groceries later, I try to go home.

And the guy at the gate – who I literally see everyday of my life and have Jeep conversations with everyday of my life – says, “I’m sorry ma’am, I can’t let you on post since you don’t have a decal.”

I was all, “I have temp tags. I live here. You know me.”

And then he just stared at me.

Eventually, one of the guys explained that the terror alert was raised and that even though I had my lease in the car showing that I live ON POST, he couldn’t let me through.

So me and the two kids and the car full of groceries and a lawn chair had to go to the visitor’s center and wait in line for two hours to get a temporary visitor’s pass. And then the jerk that did my pass only gave me a 3 day pass WITH THE WRONG TAG NUMBER ON IT. Which means I’m officially not going anywhere until we can get a real tag.

And who knows when that will.

Let me tell you, don’t ever buy a car right before you move out of state. We had a Colorado temp tag, now we have a Texas temp tag, and we still can’t get ahold of the person that needs to fax whatever document we need over to our new county.

#headdesk

Anyway, we did eventually made it home and salvaged what we could of the groceries. And then I had a monster glass of wine while my husband grilled this delicious meal for us. Pork chops on the grill are my favorite!

These are really quickly marinated (the pineapple and scallions are marinated too!) and then they grill up in about 10 minutes!

How To Make Grilled Ginger-Sesame Pork Chops with Pineapple and Scallions

Make marinade by whisking lime juice, sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, orange juice, rice vinegar, olive oil, brown sugar, and orange zest together
Pour 1/2 the marinade over pork chops
In a separate bowl, pour remaining marinade over sliced pineapple and scallions
Marinade 30 – 45 minutes in refrigerator
Grill pork chops over medium-high heat for 3 – 4 minutes depending on the thickness of your chops
Grill pineapple for about 2 – 3 minutes per side
Grill scallions for about 1 minute per side, until grill marks form

How Long Are Grilled Pork Chops Good For?

These pork chops will stay good for up to 3 – 4 days in the refrigerator. Make sure you cover them tightly.

I like to slice leftover grilled pork and use it in my Mu Shu Pork Quesadillas.

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Yield: 6 servings

Grilled Ginger-Sesame Pork Chops with Pineapple and Scallions

from Tracey's Culinary Adventures

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Additional Time 30 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients

1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup sesame oil
1/4 cup reduced sodium soy sauce
3 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon packed dark brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon orange zest
Six 3/4-inch-thick boneless center-cut pork chops
1 pineapple, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch-thick rings, and cored
1 bunch scallions, cleaned and trimmed

Instructions

In a small bowl, whisk the lime juice, sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, orange juice, rice vinegar, olive oil, brown sugar and orange zest together.
Place the pork chops in a single layer in a large baking dish and pour about 1/2 of the marinade over them. Add the pineapple rings and scallions to the bowl containing the remaining marinade and toss to coat. Place the pork and pineapple/scallion in the refrigerator and allow to marinated for 30-45 minutes, flipping the the ingredients occasionally.
While everything is marinating, preheat your grill to medium-high heat.
Remove the pork, pineapple, and scallions from their marinades. Season the pork on both sides with salt and pepper. Grill the pork chops for about 3-4 minutes per side (more or less depending on thickness if yours aren’t 3/4-inch thick). Grill the pineapple for about 2-3 minutes per side and the scallions for about 1 minute per side, or until grill marks form.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 211Total Fat: 17gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 22mgSodium: 399mgCarbohydrates: 8gFiber: 1gSugar: 5gProtein: 8g

Orange Barbecued Ribs

Jan 26, 2015

Yep, bringing you a grill recipe 4 days after we got 8 inches of snow. We’re those people.

In fact, if you follow me on Instagram, you probably saw that my husband was smoking and grilling in the snow a few weeks ago. In shorts, by the way.

(He also sleds in shorts which is probably another blog post altogether.)

It turns out that there’s a name for those of us who deal with the rain, snow, or whatever else mother nature wants to throw at us.

We’re Evergrillers. We grill year round and we strive to get the perfect char on every piece of meat no matter what the weather’s throwing at us.

And by we, I obviously mean my husband. While I supervise from the kitchen window.

So Kraft Barbecue Sauce has created this awesome Grill ‘N’ Flip Mitt. It’s a specially designed fire-resistant glove that protects from both the heat of the grill and the chill of winter. And you can see in my picture below that the design at the top enables you to hold onto any tool you may need during the grilling process.

Kraft Barbecue Sauce is also celebrating the recent launch of their revamped line of sauces with recipes that feature high-quality ingredients like tomatoes, sweet molasses, cider vinegar, and cane sugar. Plus, the bottles got a super cute makeover.

If you’re an Evergriller, you’re gonna want to enter the giveaway Kraft Barbecue Sauce has going. One person will win their own Grill ‘N’ Flip Mitt and a year supply of Kraft Barbecue Sauce. Make sure you go HERE and enter before January 30!

Now about these Orange Barbecued Ribs … so good. To make the orange barbecue sauce, you just mix a bit of the Kraft Barbecue Sauce with some orange zest and fresh orange juice and just a dash of crushed red pepper flakes. It’s sweet and spicy and delicious. I think it would be delicious on chicken too if that’s more your style!

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Paleo Swedish Meatballs

Jan 22, 2015

This is the week that will never end.

I swear, the short weeks are the worst. Especially since we’re snowy and for whatever reason, school hasn’t been canceled or even delayed. Yesterday all of Fort Carson was on a “phased arrival for non-mission essential” whatever but the kids still had to be at school bright and early.

Lucky for me, I have one kid that goes to a school within walking distance. So he’ll either walk with his friends or I’ll walk with him. But then the other one’s preschool is a good drive away. So I called the secretary yesterday morning and said, “I’m not driving in this.”

And she said, “Excuse me?”

And I said, “My kid’s not coming to school.”

And she said, “Ummm…..”

So. We skipped preschool yesterday. Rebels.

At least I called, right?

A few weeks ago, when we made our family trip to IKEA, I tortured my husband (who is doing a strict Paleo diet) by pointing out every sign for their Swedish meatballs. Neither of us have ever tried the meatballs but the pictures were enough to make us both sad that we couldn’t have any.

And I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been thinking about them ever since.

So I made these Paleo ones which really wasn’t that hard since meatballs are just balls of meat. So pretty much Paleo to begin with. There’s no bread crumbs or anything like that but they have a great texture regardless. And the sauce has coconut milk instead of sour cream or regular cream or whatever typically goes into Swedish meatballs.

If I put these in front of you and left out the fact that they’re Paleo, you’d never know. You get no hint of the coconut milk. They really taste like traditional Swedish meatballs. And you could totally mash or rice some cauliflower so you have something to absorb all that delicious sauce.

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