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Notes of a backyard griller, without many gadgets and gear. A propane grill, fork, tongs, and spatula is all I need to grill hamburgers, hot dogs, and the occasional chicken.
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Grilled Chicken Salad: A How-2 With a Photo
"Can’t Cook . . . Try Delicious Grilled Chicken Salad" Eat. Drink. Better. (November 3, 2009) "For this post I am going to express one of my favorite simple recipes, and a very healthy one at that–Grilled Chicken Salad...." Which is just what Jas...
Okra, "they feel like bug eggs" and an Delicious-Sounding Recipe
"Grilled Okra With Tomato Vinaigrette" The Washington Post (September 14, 2009) "Green Spring Gardens assistant director Cindy Brown loves fried okra. 'It isn’t summer until I fry a big batch and my son and I burn our mouths as we eat them straight...
Steaks and Philosophy
As I posted earlier in another blog (Through One Dad's Eye (September 15, 2009)), yesterday my wife asked me if I'd like to grill steak for supper. That was a welcome question, after a grill-less weekend. It took me about 25 minutes to finish the ste...
Products that Make Grilling Easier? Maybe
"Grilling gadgets add sizzle in a snap" Kristi L. Gustafson, Albany Times-Union, via the Houston Chronicle (September 9, 2009) "Slap a steak, or a portobello mushroom if you prefer, on the grill and take a whiff. Smell the smokiness of the food? Now ...
Grilled Octopus?!
It took me a few minutes to figure out how a discussion of King Kong (1933) led to my wondering how you'd grill an octopus. There's a fairly short connection - but right now I'm writing about what to do with an octopus and a grill. My ancestors, by a...
Grilling: Starting Hot, Grilling Slow, and the Fork Test
"Fire up the grill" Griller shares tasty tipsThe Gothenberg Times (July 18, 2009) "Patience is perhaps the best advice Gary Norseen gives to grillers wanting tasty meat. " 'Most people get in a hurry,' said Norseen, a Dawson County deputy sheriff. 'I...
Big Green Egg, Eggheads: Japan's Kamado With a Western Touch
I learned about Big Green Eggs a few hours ago. I've been grilling for years, but somehow this western take on Japan's traditional kamado escaped me. Digging around, I found these two YouTube videos: which give a pretty good look at the Big Green Egg...
Holiday Grilling: Independence Day, Canada Day, 14 Juillet, Grundlovsdag - - -
Grilling on Independence Day is a sort of American tradition: but this isn't the only country where people celebrate something special by setting meat over a fire until it's ready to eat. While I was looking for something else, I ran into a PR Newswi...
Competitive BBQ? Teams??
"Grill Girls" Episode GXSP01H Food Network "Move over Master of the Grill. All over America, there's a new chef (wo)manning the fire and she s discovering the thrill of the grill! We follow an all-women s barbecue team hoping to make a name for thems...
Thanksgiving Next Week
This weekend's grilling went better than last, in a way. A week ago yesterday, the grill's flames reached out and touched someone: me. There's more over at "Through One Dad's Eye."I see that I've been neglecting this blog. Time to stop that.This week...
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Our second daughter was here part of Friday and Saturday, and kept me company while grilling yesterday. Unlike previous daughter-supervised grilling episodes, yesterday the burgers came out crispy. But not extra-crispy.# two daughter went back to col...
A Rare Event: Weekday Grilling
"Well done!" I thought, when my wife asked me to grill burgers for the evening meal today. I'd dropped the suggestion recently, in hopes that her taste for grilled foods, and the relative ease with which such meals are prepared, would overcome her ha...
Sunday
Grilling lunch today was pretty much like yesterday's, with less rain and more wind.It took me three tries to get grill lit.Once again, our second-oldest daughter kept me company, and once again, the burgers came out nicely brown, without any charred...
Hamburger, Rain, and Sizzleberries
Despite a drizzle with pretensions of being rain, I was out grilling lunch today. Our second-oldest daughter kept me company, sensibly staying in the shelter of the garage and keeping an eye on me through an open door.She also provided me with an umb...
Fire Safety, or A Tale of Two Matches
This may not be "substantive," but I'll post it anyway.I grilled this evening, instead of around noon, thanks to some mis-communication between my wife and our oldest daughter.That was a good thing, I think, since this way I grilled in the shade, and...
Easy Griller: a Reality Check
This is my thirteenth post, I think. Time to slow down and think a little.If you've been following all of this blog's posts, you've noticed that I've had fun with them, but haven't offered much in the line of solid 'how to' content.That's partly beca...
Let Us Sing of Grilling
I found some verse, and a few comments, that I wrote about two years ago.This is as good a time as any to release them again.Let Us Sing of GrillingThis may be either spoken, or sung to the tune Let it Snow.It is my intention in this poem to express...
Sunday: Not So Much About Grilling, as About the Experience of Grilling
I had another good time this noon, grilling hamburger patties for the family. Sometimes one of the kids hangs out with me, but today I had the yard to myself.That's not quite correct. One of the things I like about grilling, other than the grilling i...
Tips for the Winter Griller
Dress appropriately. Bermuda shorts, Hawaiian shirt, flip-flops, and umbrella hat may be fine for August, but in February it's more than a fashion faux pas. By the time your burgers are done, you'll feel like your femurs froze.Once you have a good, h...
Grilling: a Four-Season Pursuit
Outdoor grilling: that's just for summer and maybe fall, right?Especially in places like Minnesota, where water becomes a mineral for several months each year, and National Guard arctic maneuvers have been canceled, due to inclement weather.For the c...
Grilling in the Rain With the Umbellybrella
I was outside, grilling in the rain last fall. The visiting daughter kept me company, wisely standing in a sheltering doorway. She loaned me her umbrella. I found out that I could tuck it down the neck of my jacket, getting shelter from the umbrella...
From Marshmallow Incinerator to Outdoor Griller
Or, A Griller is BornOr, Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: and a Well-Grilled BurgerAside from the occasional hamburger flambé and incinerated marshmallow, grilling was not a part of my formative years. So my wife was surprised that, when we finall...
Easy Griller Starts Medium-Well
I've enjoyed grilling for years. Not as a gourmet griller, one of those fellows with racks of seasonings and digital rotisseries.I like to grill hamburgers or hamburgers and a hot dog on the weekends, with the occasional chicken.Although simple grill...
