Soy Sauce, Ketchup, and Sesame Marinade

A lot of the recipes I have I collected over the years from my Cooking Light subscription. I have since stopped all magazine subscriptions because I never have anytime to read them these days and I felt like I was wasting paper.

This marinade is super simple and tastes so good with flank steak.

1 flank steak (I get ours from the local butcher by my work. Best meat around!)

3/4 cup soy sauce

1/4 cup ketchup

1/4 cup chopped green onions

1 1/2 tbsp sesame oil ( i use toasted)

I also add in ginger (frozen and shaved). And also the frozen garlic cubes from Trader Joe's. If you don't have them in your freezer then buy them now. They are a staple in ours.

Dump all ingredients into a gallon size Ziploc bag. Add meat and let marinate at least 4 hours or overnight.

BBQ or broil. I prefer BBQ.

We eat it alone, on salad and in burritos.

Carolina Rub Pork Chops

This has to be one of my favorite pork chop recipes. I found it in Cooking Light a while back and ever since then we have had our bbq'd chops this way.

Dry Rub:

2 tsp garlic powder (or granulated - i use this)

1 tsp onion powder (or onion salt)

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp paprika

1 tsp chili powder

1 tsp fresh ground black pepper

1/2 tsp salt

***I also add in Cayenne pepper. Also you may want to increase the amounts above. I use that rub for 2 chops. Their recipe call for 4. I think you need more seasoning.

BBQ sauce of your choice - just don't use something weird like teriyaki BBQ sauce, that would just be gross.

4 - 4 oz pork chops

mix rub ingredients in a small bowl

pat chops dry

apply rub to all sides of chops

let sit for 10 minutes

BBQ chops on one side, then flip and halfway through bbqing on the other side apply bbq sauce and then finish cooking.

So yummy! goes great with brown rice and veggies.