Get Your Grill On

 
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, […]

Today, we’re borrowing a post from a sister site in The Wellfed Network. Wayne Nelson originally posted this great article on The Cook’s Kitchen.
Where the buffalo roam…
I do live in such a place, Wyoming.  Buffalo Bill Cody made his home here too.  There is a buffalo on our state flag.  Looking at a map you will find Buffalo Creek, Buffalo River, […]

Note from the Editor…
Ladies and Gentlemen, it can now be revealed. I hope you didn’t lose too much sleep over the weekend about the ever elusive man of mystery who is joining the Get Your Grill On Team. It’s Dr. Biggles of Meat Henge fame. I’m sure many of you have guessed already his identity already, […]

Welcome to Get Your Grill On - the part of the Well Fed Network dedicated to the art of live fire cooking. I’m really excited to have this opportunity to bring this to you. I want to thank Cate O’Malley and Faith Kramer for inviting me to participate. You can find out a bit about me […]