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Grilled Green Tomatoes at the Grail Stop Cafe

Yeah, I took a little creative license with the title of this blog post. It’s probably one of the dumbest I’ve come up with, but what the heck it’s almost the end of summer and I’m out of fresh ideas for what to title a post on green tomatoes. This year, for a change, we

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Just What Do You Expect Me To Do With Broccoli & Pomegranate?

Take four random ingredients, one fruit, one vegetable, one starch and one protein, and create a whole meal out of them. That’s the challenge that a group of BBQ Blogger friends face each month. This months challenge ingredients were pomegranate, broccoli, focaccia and shrimp. The only real rule we have, amongst ourselves, is the protein

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Simple Grilled Flank Steak

Today’s dinner was a simple grilled flank steak with grilled potatoes and some heirloom tomatoes out of the garden. It just amazes me how good tomatoes out of the garden can be. I like tomatoes in salads and on hamburgers but unless they are garden fresh tomatoes I can’t eat them as a side dish.

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Grilled Honey Garlic Eggplant

Ingredients: 2 baby eggplants 1 tablespoon honey 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 cloves garlic, mashed 1/4 teaspoon Sriracha sauce 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar Salt and Pepper to taste Directions:

Pre-heat your grill to high.

With a potato peel remove strips of skin off the eggplant. Slice the eggplant, long ways, into 1/2 inch slices. Arrange

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BBQ Grail's Grilled Butternut Squash

Growing up I was never exposed to very many different fresh vegetables. Vegetables were something you “had” to have on the plate and for the most part not a great deal of thought went into them. Most of the time they were the frozen type that got nuked in the microwave just before we

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BBQ Tip: Which Oil To Use When Grilling

One of the great aspects of being involved in writing about BBQ is that I get to meet lots of people. Most of which know a great deal more than I do about outdoor cooking. One of the people I have had the privilege of getting to know is Barry “CB” Martin. Barry is responsible

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