Get Your Grill On

Steven Raichlen certainly has put forth some mighty fine effort in producing several notable cookbooks in the area of grilling, smoking, sauce, ribs and rubs. This addition (Ribs, Ribs, Ribs) published in 2006 is a staple of my professional collection at Shepherd University. Before I stepped into the kitchen many a time before, I found […]

It’s not often I get a copy of a cook book where the entire lineup whets my appetite for great food. This is one of those rare instances when the planets have aligned themselves and the grill is just begging for me to crack open the cover.
From page to page it’s filled with delicious […]

While going through pepper sauce after pepper sauce at Peppers in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware I came acorss this jewel of a cookbook tucked away in the 1/2 price stack. At one glance I knew I had an excellent find and actually looked around to make sure the book wasn’t stuck on the wrong shelf, […]

“North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland.” Whoa. Really? Them’s some pretty strong words. Some folks might say them’s fightin’ words. Some folks in Texas, Tennessee, Missouri and not to mention South Carolina may not take kindly to them words, but John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg […]

Commander’s Palace has been a fine dining institution in New Orleans since 1880. Executive Chef Tory McPhail and managing partner Ti Adelaide Martin have mined this restaurant’s extensive collection of recipes to coauthor the Commander’s Wild Side: Bold Flavors for Fresh Ingredients from the Great Outdoors.
As the title suggests, the book focuses on wild game […]

1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
¼ cup sugar
1 can (16 ounces) pumpkin
1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix
2 tsp. Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 cup cold milk
1 tub whipped topping, thawed
30 Gingersnaps
1. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in pumpkin.
2. Add pudding mix and pie spice; mix well.
3. Gradually beat in […]

One of the benefits of writing here at Get Your Grill On is that occasionally we get a product, a book, or a food item to review. Usually these items are pretty good, sometimes great and rarely just plain awful. Most however are just pedestrian but we just received a new book in the mail […]

I am obsessed with pizza — making it, eating it, blotting the grease off the top, figuring out which places use real and not canned mushrooms — but most importantly, finding a good place for take-out. You see, ever since I left the New York-New Jersey metro area and moved to Pennsylvania, finding a good […]

Don’t forget this week’s contest. You can enter until Midnight, Saturday!

We’re giving away a free copy of “He Said Beer, She Said Wine?” All you have to do is answer the following five questions and send your responses, with a valid return email address to GYGOEditor@gmail.com

According an article in the Wall Street Journal and […]

I’ve just come across a great book on wine and beer called “He Said Beer, She Said Wine” by Dogfish Head brewery founder Sam Calagione and renowned sommelier Marnie Old and published by DK Publishing just this month.
I loved this book. Finally a book about wine and beer for the rest of us.
Beer is traditionally […]