Try this on the grill

Fellow Sun staffer Shelley Byrne passed along her thoughts and a recipe for an easy marinade. She said she normally buys bottled marinade, but this recipe is so fast and easy, plus she already had the ingredients in her refrigerator. Shelley found this recipe in a 4-ingredient cookbook and has tried it on pork chops, chicken breasts and pineapple.


1/2 cup chili sauce
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 cup honey

Mix, pour on meat and refrigerate at least an hour (overnight is better) for a marinade. I pour a small amount out, before it ever touches the raw meat, and use it for basting while grilling or apply as a sauce immediately after it comes off the grill. For the pineapple, I just tossed in fresh pineapple slices to coat and threw them directly on the grill.

From Shelley: One tip I found helpful was to coat the measuring cup with cooking spray before measuring out the honey. It makes the honey come out so much easier, and really reduces the sticky mess left over afterward.

Thanks, Shelley! If you have other good grilling recipes or marinades, send them my way, and I'll post to the blog so other readers can try out your creation.