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Make grilled personal pizzas to get kids excited about grilling outdoors. As the summer wears on and you've grilled out every week or so, you may be running out of ideas for things to grill. To give the kids and adults a break from the traditional hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken, and steaks, grill personal pizzas! This basic recipe is a welcome change when hosting a backyard … [Read more...]
The healthiest part of a meal, the veggies, is often overlooked. Flame kissed with a slightly smoky flavor, marinaded grilled vegetables can become the best part of the grilling experience. Delicious! You know what vegetables you like but how can you add flavor to them? You marinade them of course! Here are some tips and marinade recipes to help you add more vegetables to … [Read more...]
Wood chips can add distinct flavors to your foods. Although you can use almost any type of wood chip with the meat you grill, some chips will work better with a particular meat. The best wood chips for cooking meat on the BBQ grill are listed below. When beef is your meat of choice, you may want to use either mesquite, oak or cherry wood chips to give it a unique flavor … [Read more...]
For a twist to your cookout, try using something besides ground beef. Turkey has become a popular choice in health food circles and this grilled turkey and cucumber burger is a perfect alternative to the traditional beef burger. For an extra special "turkey burger" serve it on Pita bread or in a wrap. Ingredients: 1 pound of ground turkey ½ of an onion, diced ¾ … [Read more...]
There are almost as many recipes for burgers as there are people. Yet, somehow when you're trying to think of a way to add zip to your burgers, you may find that you just can't come up with a good recipe off the top of your head. For those times, you need to have this grilled blue cheese burger recipe in your box. If you want to create this burger but find that you … [Read more...]
Whether you want to be more health conscious or get the kids to eat more broccoli by slipping it into a burger, this nutty broccoli and feta burger is a great grilling recipe to add to your ever-growing collection. In case your kids just "can't like" the broccoli inside the burgers, you may want to make some burgers without it, serving it raw and on the side … [Read more...]
Cooking outdoors on a grill is a great option, especially when it’s just too hot to cook in the kitchen. However, meat that's been grilled can be very dry, if precautions are not taken. To find out how to grill moist meat, just check out the following tips. First, purchase the right meat. Beef should be firm to the touch, not soft. Fish should be glossy intact steaks … [Read more...]
