Grilled pineapple is wicked good. We got a grill pan so we can almost simulate the grill when it's crappy out, or when I don't feel like doing the coal dance. It works great for veggies.
Since I bought that natural hog we eat pork chops fairly regularly, those are great with a sweet glaze like pineapple, regular apple, or my personal favorite: Maple syrup. Trust me.
I'm from Vermont, you can't take maple syrup out of my diet or I'll die. I don't mean that garbage corn syrup that's served all over the country, I mean
real maple syrup. It has no equal! If you look carefully at syrup containers in restaurants like Waffle House, Ihop, Bob Evans, Dennys... any number of places that serve breakfast, you'll find that the word "maple" never actually appears. It's all corn.
It doesn't even taste like maple, it's just a sweetener! For me, calling it maple syrup is along the same lines as blasphemy. I shudder at the thought.
I found myself in a breakfast joint in Virginia a few years back. I had bacon and an omelet with some toast (wheat toast, which I'd ordered thinking it was healthier...) and I asked for syrup. The lady looked at me like I'd just fallen off the wall.
Her: "Why?"
Me: "Whaddya mean why?"
Her: "You didn't get pancakes."
Me: "I know."
Her: "So what's the syrup for?"
Me: "Everything."
Her: "I've been working here for fifteen years and I ain't never seen nothin' like that."
I think I blew her fragile mind. I put it on everything. Toast, eggs, bacon, french fries, ice cream, peanut butter sandwiches... and of course it's an excellent glaze for pork ribs/chops/steaks/tenderloin/etc.
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