Basic Marinades for grilling

This is a continual post in progress, I will add new marinades as I assemble, find or come up with new ones. Thanks for your patience. If you were brought here by a link from any of the C4 blogs, the recipe is below, I promise!


Put these marinades together in a zip-lock bag and throw in your meat of choice.
Then let it sit in the fridge at least a day in advance, sometimes two before grilling.

Basic Marinade #1:
Steak/Basic red meat
1 Cup Dale's Steak Seasoning            
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
3 T Worchestire Sauce
3 T Soy Sauce
2 T McCormick Grill mates Montreal Steak                        
1 tsp of Creole Seasoning                              
1/2  tsp. of  Garlic Powder

Works great for beef, venison and elk.
                 
Basic Marinade #2:
Orange Spicy
1 can (15oz or smaller) pineapple chunks with juice
1 medium to large green/bell pepper diced
1 small to medium onion diced
1-2 Cups orange juice
1 Cup brown sugar
1 T Soy Sauce
1 T Sesame Oil
1 T vinegar
1 T minced garlic (or clove of garlic diced)
1 T to 1 tsp. red chili flakes (to taste)

This marinade is great with pork, shrimp and chicken and can be "cooked down" for sauce if you feel like quick Chinese spicy orange instead of working the grill. Also great for grilled chicken "foil packets" (Oh so yummy!).


Basic Marinade #3:

Mole & Balsamic Marinade
2   T   red chile powder
2   T   unsweetened cocoa powder
2   T   toasted sesame seeds
1   T   chipotle powder
1/8 tsp. ground cloves
1/8 tsp. ground allspice
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1    tsp. brown sugar
2    cloves garlic minced (or 2 T minced garlic)
1 to 1/2 C. balsamic vinegar salad dressing (or 1/4 C. Balsamic Vinegar)
1/2 to 3/4 C tomato juice or V8 (according to whether you use the salad dressing vs vinegar)