great post!
can you use the same spices on chicken? i'm not a big user of pork loin.
Absolutely. I use that spice rub on chicken a lot.
Here's another one I use on chicken that tastes really good (I cook the same way...in the tinfoil with veggies...but you have to cook to a bit higher internal heat with chicken, of course):
A bit of mustard so the spices make a paste
Cumin
Chili powder
cayenne pepper
pepper
salt
tumeric
coriander seeds
I rub the spice on the chicken, add to my tinfoil with onions, carrots, peppers and sometimes broccoli. Delicious. And the tinfoil catches the juice from the chicken, which makes a nice sauce on the veggies.
I also do this one for flank steak, when you're allowed to have some calories from the fat in the steak:
In a ziploc bag, add a big flank steak (trust me...flanks works perfect here), some garlic, some ginger, some soy sauce, a tiny bit of sesame oil (just a bit adds the taste you need) and a bit of orange juice. Let the steak marinate for a few hours.
Then, take the steak out, and put on a fucking killer hot bbq grill on direct heat. 5 minutes, the flip. 4 minutes on the other side, then kill the heat, let the lid stay closed for 3 minutes, then pull it off the grill. Let the meat sit for about 5 mins. Then, take a very sharp knife and just cut very thin slices. You will think you died and went to heaven...it's ridiculously good. When I'm allowing myself a bit of naughty food, I take the marinade that's left over, and put it in a pot and boil the living hell out of it until it reduces to a thick sauce. Then, you spoon a tiny bit of it (not too much...very powerful flavor and it can overpower the good steak you bought) on the meat. You will thank me when you try this. A fellow bb'er passed this recipe along to me, and I'm just paying it forward. I love it. Problem is finding flank steak (not a popular cut in the meat section, so you to go to the counter and I often forget). And then when you go the counter, you're not getting it cheap. It's about 9-10 bucks/lb, give or take. So it can be a special occasion thing. You can feed this to a vegetarian and they will thank you.