Sunday Dinner

Anyone of a reasonable age has memories of Sunday Dinner. Mom cooking up the goods and bringing it all together for a family meal!!!!!! Almost makes you want to cry just thinking about it, not to mention the five pounds it adds instantly.

Our family group doesn't do Sunday dinner very often. The girls are running in different directions and Sunday isn't my favorite day to have large groups of people to the house for food. However, everything sorta came together this past Sunday for a nice meal.

As I stated previously, we are changing the direction of the blog to be more about what is on the grill and how it got there, so ....

Sunday, we grilled ...

Garlic Bread

- Ruined it, threw it away, burnt to be disgusting

- I hope one day that I can master the bread on the grill action, it smells so good.

Corn on the Cob

- Slightly bland, used a chilli pepper and butter mixture, not enough chilli

- When you get the pepper to butter blend right, grilled corn is awesome

Green Beans

- Simple awesome, not bragging but everyone agreed, best ever

- Steam green beans, wrap in bacon (makes everything better)

- Oil up with olive oil

- Sprinkle with some red pepper flakes

Potatoes with Onions

- OK, so they didn't go on the grill (ran out of room)

- Oven 350 degrees

- Red potatoes, cut small, add whole onion cut into pieces, olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic

- mix together and place into oven until potatoes are soft to cut

- use some fresh thyme if you have it (yum!)

Green Onions

- Really simple, olive oil, salt, grill for a few minutes ...... Sweet

- and just for fun, yeah, I wrapped a couple in bacon ...... Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Cajun sausage

- Really simple, buy it, grill it, eat it (just don't burn it and you are fine)

Chicken

- mixture of boneless tenders and thinly slice breasts

- we used a variety of different rubs

- montreal chicken is awesome (thanks McCormicks)

- mesquite chicken is good (another McCormick)

- cattlemans steak shake is really good (local seasoning from the cattlemans group)

- green egg seasoning (Big Green Egg owners will know this one)

Burgers

- One goofball thought hamburgers would be better

- Two pounds of hamburger meat

- blackening seasoning, Worcestershire, pepper, salt all mixed into meat

- make FOUR patties and grill FOREVER!

- dang good but 30 minute burgers is ridiculous.

Anyway, bottom line, I grilled for about 2 and half hours and it was worth it. Yeah, it was a lot of work, we grilled, we played, we ate. It was a good day.

Until next time, I'm studying the Latin America grilling book. I hope to have a worthwhile blog on that success soon.