Rutter Kitchen- Menu #7

 

We got together last night to cook Menu #7, Grilled Pineapple Pork Chops, Roasted Vegetables & Nutty Caramel Bars.  I got the pork chops in the marinade that morning so they would hopefully have good flavor by that evening.  Dana cooked the Bars that afternoon at her place and she has already posted about them.  That evening Dana prepped the veggies and got them in the oven, while we got our charcoal going.  We chose to roast the veggies in the oven, as we were concerned that the veggies would get kind of soggy in the slow cooker.  We look forward to reading your reviews or comments as to how the slow cooker worked for some of you.  Dana cut up the pineapple as we chose to use a fresh pineapple to grill instead of the canned.  A heads up about using fresh pineapple.  If you do that you need to buy some pineapple juice as you need that for the marinade.  It didn't take long to grill the meat & pineapple and that was nice.  It was a combined effort in the grilling.  Doug got the charcoal going, then Dana and Ashley started grilling the meat and Brett came and took it over so they wouldn't have to do it :)

Now for our review- We really liked everything!  The meat had really good flavor and the fresh grilled pineapple really added to the meal.  We also think that the canned pineapple might tend to fall apart as its cooked on the grill, so I'm interested to see how it turned out for the rest of you.  The oven roasted veggies were really tasty and so easy to fix.  The Bars were very tasty but sooo rich.  We fixed homemade ice cream to go with it and that was good also.  I will say that this is one of my favorite menu's from this book.  I think we all plan on fixing this menu again :)