What you will need: Pork tenderloin, a gas grill, Yourself, someone to keep you company and help make things better when things go wrong, and a smart phone is strongly suggested.
Step 1: Buy one. Just any old one. If you are feeling particularly lazy and don't really want to make the effort to figure out a marinade for it or a dry rub you can usually find one at the grocery store already flavored. For this situation were going to say you should get a black peppercorn flavored.
Step 2: Keep that in the fridge until you feel like cooking it. It could be a few days, a few minutes. Whatever you like.
Step 3: Google how to cook the pork tenderloin because you have no idea how. Pick the top option and follow that one without reading any other recipes. The top one is clearly the best choice because it is on the top.
Step 4: Skim the recipe for the top points. Such as, how hot to turn your grill onto and how often to turn the meat. It's also good to pay attention to what temp the meat should end up.
Step 5: Search the kitchen for your meat thermometer because you haven't used it in ages. Enlist someone else to help you find it in the drawer you thought you looked in, but didn't.
Step 6: Follow the recipe cooking directions you found on the Googles and start cooking it on indirect heat. Turn the meat every four minutes for about 20 minutes before you realize that your thermometer might not be accurate.
Step 7: Remove meat thinking it might be done. Try to temp the meat again using thermometer and become more wary of how well it is working.
Step 8: Put the meat back onto the grill and begin looking up another way to cook the meat to try to figure out what the heck to do when you can't tell how hot your meat is.
Step 9: Remove meat yet again and this time brave cutting it open slightly to check how it looks on the inside. Google pictures of finished pork tenderloins and use that as a go-to on if your meat looks done.
Step 10: Put meat back on the grill one more time and put it on direct heat this time because you found better instructions on a different website. Cook for awhile longer until it looks like it's done and the broken thermometer kind of reaches where it should be. You can check it once you get it off the grill but cutting it in a few parts to make sure it isn't too pink.
Step 11: Cut it up and eat it! It's delicious!
Step 12: Take a picture so you can blog about it later! Also the camera makes it look much more pink than it does in person.
That is basically the way Chad and I made pork tenderloin for the first time today. Well, except we didn't just pick any old one. We considered our options. I added a bit of dramatic affect to the story so it isn't all true facts. I'll let you decide what is true and what isn't.
Despite the cruddy thermometer and not really finding the best directions it came out really juicy and flavorful. We will definitely be trying this again. I really like it and I think Chad was surprised because he thinks I don't like anything with flavor, or so he kids. I can be adventurous. Just you wait and see!
Side story
I got a new fingernail polish and painted them for the wedding on Saturday and forgot to post a picture. It's purple pizzazz and cost a cool ninety-four cents. *cool shades*
I got a new fingernail polish and painted them for the wedding on Saturday and forgot to post a picture. It's purple pizzazz and cost a cool ninety-four cents. *cool shades*
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