After grilling some steaks/vegetables for dinner, I decided to make desert. Super simple and quick.

Grilled Pineapple:

Ingredients/Prep (done at least an hour before grilling)-

- 1 cored and skinned pineapple cut into 2 inch slabs

- 1 stick of salted butter melted in a pot/cup

- 1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon

- 3 tablespoons of hot sauce (I just used Frank's Red Hot)

- 2 tablespoons of honey

- 1 zip lock bag

Melt the butter and add the honey, cinnamon, and hot sauce. Stir to combine.

Place the pineapple slabs in a zip lock with the marinade and keep at room temperature for at least 30 minutes prior to grilling.

Cooking instructions:

- On a HOT grill (400 degrees or more), sear the pineapple 2-4 minutes each side.

- Give one final brush with marinade mixture before flipping to other side.

- Serve

The beauty of this dish is that it carmelizes the sugars on the surface of the pineapple but retains a bit of tartness in the middle of the cut slab. The cinnamon and hot sauce add a complexity that is both tangy and sweet.

I served this last night to my wife as a surprise desert and she was nuts for it :-)

Enjoy!