So, this is the quickest meal I know, but it takes a little advance preparation. I buy pork loins in bulk from Costco/Sam's Club. I cut them in half, and since there's two of us-Jon and i, I put two in each bag (so do however many you'd need each time). Then I pick 3-4 marinades. Pork chops work well with fruit side dishes or sweet flavors. Some marinades I've tried and liked:
1. Maple syrup and walnuts
2. A sun dried tomato Tuscan salad dressing (were trying panera's balsamic salad dressing this time)
3. Apple pie filling (a can of peaches sounds good right now but I haven't tried it)
4. Raspberry Wasabi dip (it's like a specialty mustard sauce we found here in Indiana, but a mustard would work)
Anyways, freeze in any serving size you like with a brief description of the marinade and the date. Then the day before or the day of, take it out of the freezer to thaw.
To cook, turn a pan on high heat and you'll sear the pork on each side (leave extra marinade in the bag-syrup and some dressings don't cook as well). This doesn't take very long. Pour the extra marinade on top after seared to heat it up and for extra flavor. To make a healthy meal of it, throw together a salad, frozen mixed veggies in the microwave (usually what we do, we buy frozen veggies in bulk from Sam's) and rice. Our you can open up a can of fruit or applesauce. Another option we've tried for pork is searing pork that wasn't in a marinade and putting a little salt and pepper on it and then serve with applesauce on top.
We started using pork with weight watchers dinners (the maple syrup one we got from weight watchers). We've found it to be easy and tasty when we sear it, which is also the gayest way to cook it. Thawed pork can be ready to eat in under 10 minutes. (Possibly in about 5 minutes).
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