Here it is, July already, and no BBQ item!!  As always,
I'm looking for recipes/ideas for outdoor grilling...

27 responses total.

  here's an idea....  you grill, I eat. 

but use plenty of BBQ sauce.

the best things on the grill will forever and always be cherry tomatos and
red pepper strips.  :9  served next to a mixture of grilled sausage, lamb
chops, pork chops, and steak strips, how can you go wrong?  :)
(this a family favorite meal...we have to sit for quite some time afterwards
before we waddle away, 'cause we'e al eaten so much!  :)

I make a similar meal on skewers, including onion chunks, cherry
tomatoes, pepper strips (red, green and yellow), and the meat
du jour.  Usually chicken or sausage.  Marinate the chicken chunks
first in Italian dressing or something.  

If there's time in the morning, I'll cook breakfast sausages on the
grill.  

my dad once did a pizza on the grill...if you like a smokey flavour , it's
great!  the only proble was the fact that the bottom was burned beyond
ediblity...but i'm sure that there's a way to fix that...

Does anyone have, or know about the pros & cons of an electric grille?  We
have seen a couple of articles about them, but they apparantly are not
commonly sold.  The grille I am asking about is an electric substitute for
the Weber type charcoal grille, or a substitute for an outdoor gas grille.
A past article in the AA news listed a Thermos brand grille and rated it
highly.

I have an electric grille. Works great and it's three or four years old. I
use it a lot in the winter time, it just does not have the same flavor as a
char grille. I don't remember the name and it's not written anywhere on it.

gal:  Thanks - do you remember where you bought it?

I went to a Med-Sport cooking demo at Kitchen Port a few months ago
where Lizzy Burt shared a wonderful technique for grilled or roasted
veggies.  Put 1 Tbsp. Olive oil, 2 Tbsp. Kitchen Bouquet browning
sauce, and 1/4 cup soy sauce into a little spray bottle.  Slice up
whatever veggies you prefer (zucchini sliced in thirds the long way),
quartered red, yellow, and green peppers, eggplant rounds, portabello
mushroom "steaks", Vidalia onion slices, etc..  Place them on a grill
or under a broiler, spritz once or twice turning as needed, until 
done to your preference.  Very low fat, looks great, and tastes
wonderful.  Use 'em as leftovers, cold, on good bread, to make 
a tasty veggie sandwich the next day.

My family always runs into the problems of barbecuing more food than we can
eat.  If the neighbors are home, we just invite them over to join us, but if
no one is around, they end up sitting around as leftovers.  Anyone have any
other ideas about what to do with them or how to make sure you don't
barbecue too much food?

in my family, there is no such thing as too much...if there's some left, it's
tomorrow nights dinner or lunch or somethign!  :)

I have a recipe for shishkabob that uses fresh Tuna, or Swordfish instead of
the beef or chicken. It always turns out Yummy!!  I also try using different
types of veggies, like eggplant and zucchini. :)

It's grilling time again!  Anybody grill anything good yet?  I grilled some
steaks today and it was just like summertime! :)

We grilled some "Ultimate Kabobs" from Market Square
week before last, and barbeque chicken last week. 
I'm grilling some eggplant in a day or two, along with
other veggies.

i've been grilling for a while already.
a quick, but elegant throw together meal for company is kabobs.
smallish beef chunks marinated in garlic and worchester, and
arranged in stripes on a cookie sheet the veggies: pearl onions,
cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers(green,red,yellow).
if you want to be fancier, use sliced corn-on-the-cob also.
guests assemble and grill their own.
appetizers. brie, french bread, white grapes and apple slices.
mm

I've become so lazy when it comes to grilling - it seems to
take too much advance planning to have the grill cleaned and
the fuel on hand.  But I do use my indoor grill pan regularly.
Does that count?

You might get half a point for that, Mary.  Real grilling happens outdoors,
though.

I grabbed some lamb patties at Sparrow meats in Kerrytown, Pretty yummy,
change of pace from beef. Leftovers made a great pasta sauce a few nights
later.

We're getting into grilling season yet again-for those of you with grills to
cook outdoors with. Sure wish I had a yard or balcony too use to cook outside
with...  [Will have to find some picnics or something this summer as an excuse
or hope my brother will invite me over to cook out from time to time.]

I could dig out my George Forman, though, too. :-)

A lot of local parks have grills available for public use. I never
bother with them though. If I feel like eating outside, I just get
something to go from Depot Town and sit down by the river with my dogs. 

I've been giving thought to building a brick smoker/BBQ.

Here is a question for my fellow BBQ jockeys:

How detrimental would it be to a stainless steel grill if it was not put
into a shed or garage for the winter, but instead a cover was put on it?
I enjoy grilling even in the winter time and wouldn't want to walk way
out to the shed to flip some burgers.

Why even bother with a cover?  I've found my bbq survives the elements better
without the canvas cover(which for some weird reason attracts earwigs)
Then again, it doesn't snow here.

resp:18 Heh, my hubby and I have a Foreman that we use on a regular
basis. Though we're not terribly creative with it.

resp:21 my parents have always just left their grill out year round (in
Michigan). Sometimes it gets covered... In the winter a path to the
grill would be the only part that got shoveled.

Sounds like the same thing with my brother and the grill in the yard; he uses
it yearround, like my Dad did when he still owned the house and grill...

The nice weather is back so its time to think about grilling outside 
again.  I have a deck at my new place of residence so I'll be spending 
more time outdoors than I did this previous year.  However, I gave away 
my portable gas grill before I moved back to MI [as the movers wouldn't 
take it and I didn't have room for it in my car].  So now I need to 
decide if I want to get another little gas grill [so very easy to use!] 
or a hibachi or a regular charcoal grill. It'll have to be inexpensive 
and I probably should get some kind of table to set it on for cooking 
[especially since the grill will most likely be a litte one].  Maybe I 
can look in the online classifieds [at craigslist].

Anyway, what kind of good recipes and/or techniques do y'all use for 
outdoor cooking?

So much for the nice weather being back..... I took a rain check that night
for a picnic by the river, and haven't been able to collect on it since.

Though it wasn't GRILLED chicken [which would've been so much nicer], 
the other evening I did take a chicken dinner with me to check out a 
park near me that I hadn't been to yet.  I don't recall seeing any 
grills there but there might have been but I just didn't notice. It 
does have a shelter and a bunch of picnic tables.

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