Get Your Grill On

The following factoids are from www.hpba.org.
A Sizzling Industry
· More than 17.4 million grills were shipped in 2007, marking a 13 percent increase since 2000.
· Nine out of 10 (95 percent) grill owners used their grill in the past year, an increase of 4 percent over 2003.
· Nearly eight out of 10 (77 percent) households own […]

In celebration of Earth Day, I’d like to take a break from talking about grilling meat to talk about, well… grilling local meat.
Becoming a localvore - a person dedicated to eating food grown and produced locally - is one of the best ways you can contribute to a healthier environment. Eating locally:

Creates less pollution - […]

If you watch enough cooking shows, you would have most certainly heard the term, sort of a television cook’s mantra – fat is flavour, usually when there is some fat appearing in their recipes, possibly to assuage one’s guilt about eating it. But really, do they make you want to nip down to the local […]

Growing up in NW Iowa and SE South Dakota, barbecue meant something very different to me than it does now. BBQ was Kingsford charcoal, a Weber kettle grill, and some kind of grilled meat slathered in BBQ sauce, which I can still smell burning over the coals.
I remember my father’s red Weber kettle in the […]

Barbecue, (or is it barbeque, BBQ or Bar-B-Que), can be a noun or a verb. It can be food, like a plate of barbecue, an event, like a church barbecue, or it can refer to a piece of equipment like a barbecue grill. Not surprising is the fact that real barbecue folks draw […]

And if you’re like me, you haven’t even begun your Christmas Shopping yet.
So in an effort to help my fellow procrastinators, this week Get Your Grill On will be featuring reviews of  various outdoor cooking items that just happen to make great gifts. We can’t promise that they’ll all be available in your local markets, […]

Just a quick reminder, today is the last day to vote for your favorite food bloggers over at our flagship website, The Well Fed Network.
I hope you’ll take a minute and vote for our own Dr. Biggles of Meathenge in the Best Food Blog: Theme category.
There’s over 10 categories and even more contestants. Good luck […]

Housework’s a funny thing.Everyone who knows me, is well aware that I like to cook…ok, love to cook. There is something about shopping, chopping and cooking that really gets my juices flowing. I don’t necessarily need the best to be available to me, truffles, lobster, waygu et al, though I certainly appreciate them when they […]

Here’s another assortment of pet peeves, this time a collection of things people say that cause me to bristle. Sometimes they’re said by servers, sometimes customers, sometimes owners and sometimes even me. Most of these are service-related and most are just as likely to happen at any restaurant in America. I’ve arranged these in chronological […]

I’m adding my own American lamb post. I was just so impressed with what the American Lamb Board is doing, and just how good the American lamb I’ve had actually is, that I didn’t want to not add my own take on summer grilling with lamb.

I didn’t go fancy, as I wanted to really taste […]