Mamma Mia! Ok, This isn’t going to be some Italiano marinara sauce chicken dish with fancy regional spices. This is a simple marinade alternative using Italian dressing for chicken breasts. It’s also my second simple marinade recipe within a month, so check out my post on Chops with Lawry’s Marinade. Wow, I must be running short on time these days.
Today, I am here to share some grilling woes with my Grill”Dud” Kabobs. Man, is it tempting to just grab that pre-made kabob from the meat section. All the meat and veggies are skewered nicely and seasoned to make these things ready to slap on the grill. In fact, for the the novice, they even come with brief cooking instructions on the sticker. And finally, the buy-one-get-one-free offer sealed the deal for me (this red sticker should have been the RED FLAG). We bought chicken kabobs and beef kabobs. Throwing the chicken kabobs on the grill a few minutes before the beef helped me get things off the grill at the same time. The timing would make Chef Ramsey proud.
The great thing about cooking kabobs is that you can cheat by eating a chunk of meat to check for doneness. Never admit that you are cheating though…..just claim that you are sampling your creation. Before you know it, you will have eaten a whole kabob! So, in the spirit of sampling my creation, my second sign of trouble was the slightly chewy beef. The wooden skewers did get a little burnt, so if you were preparing the kabobs yourself, you should soak the wooden skewers for about 1 hour prior to using them. These kabobs had big chunks of meat on them and I was pretty proud that they were cooked to perfection and ready to head to the table. At this point, I am not sure if I am lucky or unlucky to not have Chef Ramsey in my kitchen. Going from the serving station to the table would have sent him into a frenzy of censored bleeps and the chewy, tasteless kabobs would have never made it to the table. But….they did. The best (or at least the most honest) critics are two kids under 7 and a hungry wife. I didn’t get any censored bleeps from my diners, but their tired jaws were still able to flap out their disapproval. No amount of A1 was going to save this one. After weeks of no blogging, and this is what you get? Sorry….if you were looking for something inspirational today, check out a totally unrelated video “The Last Lecture“. It is over an hour, so you can check out the Wall Street Journal 5 minute overview. -GrillDude
Two Dollar Dinner! Well, 6 chicken legs for $1.93 ain’t bad. Throw in some canned black beans and a grocery store fruit bowl and you have a family meal while the wife is out for girl’s night out. And what kid doesn’t like chicken legs? Today, I didn’t want to mess with some extravagant recipe, so here ya have Simple Chicken Legs. This gave me a chance to throw the football with my son and babysit the chicken every once in a while.
A Super Bowl Sunday meal is all about those all-American favorites like hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, wings, chips and dip! Leave it to GrillDude to do something non-traditional (but, still all-American). And today, you get my first Brined Turkey, and of course, it’s on the Grill. I have to thank dubya for his comments on my Grilled Turkey blog, otherwise, I wouldn’t have tried this.
Sometimes I will tear up the chicken meat and make chicken fajitas with black beans, salsa, cheese, lettuce, etc. Other times, I will just cut up the chicken with kitchen scissors into drumsticks, thighs, breasts, and wings. The kids always love the drumsticks. Depending on ingredients that I have around the house, I might switch a few ingredients and/or leave out the smoked wood chips but, here is a good recipe you can work from. Click to continue »
Gobble, Gobble! Great timing for this topic. Each year, Thanksgiving dinner rotates between family members which means that I don’t cook the turkey very often (and don’t get leftovers). This has given me the chance to try to perfect my grilled turkey on my household without risking a catastrophe on a larger family event…..AND, I have an entire turkey’s worth of leftovers. Click to continue » |
There are 2 things I cook a LOT. Ribeye’s (my favorite, so you should see a blog on this soon) and Beer Butt Chicken. 