Get Your Grill On

In going on my third round of antibiotics for my sinus infection, I’ve found myself going through more cookbooks than getting time to step outside and grill. I’ve been able to glance over many cookbooks that have become staples on my barbecuing idea shelf, and BBQ USA is such a book. Steven Raichlen’s BBQ USA […]

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 […]

Pan-Seared Trout with Asian Vinaigrette
For the vinaigrette:
1 tablespoon cane sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons fresh galangal, chopped
1-1/2 tablespoons Yuzu rice vinegar
1-1/2 tablespoons lite soy sauce
5 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, or more, to taste
For the trout:
4 trout fillets, large enough to serve 1 person each
Salt and fresh ground pepper
2 tablespoons grape seed oil
2 […]

 
For Father’s Day weekend, we took a short, very short, camping trip.  We are fortunate enough to have two beautiful lakes within a couple miles of our house: Blue Springs Lake and Lake Jacomo.  Both have campgrounds.  This weekend, we secured a spot less than 50 feet from the playground at Blue Springs Lake.  Mom […]

While we run the gamut of main courses for your grilling pleasure here on Get Your Grill On, I thought it time to offer up the perfect side dish for your meal … Cowboy Baked Beans.
While flipping through the pages of the Colorado Cook Book this afternoon, the recipe for Cowboy Baked Beans caught my […]

In this day and age when all food seems to come prepared and packaged from the supermarket, many old traditions have been lost. Bacon curing was something a family would do for themselves from hogs that they would raise and butcher themselves. Bacon was a bit thicker and made from leaner cuts like the shoulder. […]

Blacm Bean and Corn Salsa

1/2 gallon Roasted Corn
1 1/4 qts canned black beans
5 medium red peppers – chopped
2 medium onions – chopped
5 Roma tomatoes – diced (2 large if no romas available)
5 jalapeno peppers
5 cloves garlic - minced
3/4 cup lime or lemon juice
3 tbsp fresh chopped cilantro
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper

Roast corn over medium […]

When you become addicted to the BBQ you tend to do a couple of things. First you talk to as many individuals as you can who are either successful in cooking BBQ or who consistently win in contests, and begin picking there brain hoping to find that one secret of success that would make you […]

My mate Leigh was peering over my shoulder as I wrote an article for Get Your Grill On. “I’ve got some pictures you can use” he said and downloaded pictures of one of his many campfire cookout breakfasts he and his mates regularly make by the bank of the mighty Murray river, Australia’s biggest and longest. […]

Picture with courtesy and permission M. Barritt & K. May
Feeling peckish? Come over for a no fuss barbie. I’ll just nip outback and spear a kangaroo, then build a whopping great fire. No rubs or fancy marinades, in fact we don’t even bother to skin the beast (that’s him just behind the pile of coals, […]