Plank Grilling: Shrimp With Teriyaki Glaze On Lemon Grass Skewers

There are lots of different wood products you can get to skewer shrimp on.  You can get the standard, ordinary, run of the mill bamboo skewers or you can use something like Lemon Grass that will impart a little extra flavor into the shrimp.

Lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus), a native of India, is widely

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Jambalaya! The Big Easy Way

I participate in the Sizzle On The Grill Forum run by Char-Broil.  One of my favorite Char-Broil products is the Big Easy Smoker Roaster Grill because of the cooking versatility.  One of the discussions on the more interesting uses I’ve seen for SRG was for dutch oven cooking.  In most cases the dutch oven is

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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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MOINK Balls & Grits

Once on business trip to Savannah, Georgia I was treated to one of the most amazing dishes I’ve ever had cross over my lips…Shrimp & Grits.

I ate Shrimp & Grits about a half dozen times during that trip, but the most fantastic version was at a restaurant on River Road that made the grits into

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1st Cook on new 26 inch Weber One-Touch Kettle

Started with a chimney of Lazzari Mesquite Lump. Man this stuff sparks like nothing I’ve ever used before. I don’t think I could use this in the summer months because of fire danger.

This new 26 inch kettle is huge. Here is is with a whole bag of lump in it.

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