Ahh spring. It’s finally here and with it come the birds, flowers, planting the garden and of course GRILLING WEATHER! Actually, I grill year round but the nice weather certainly makes grilling a lot more fun and provides more pleasant temperatures for getting creative on the bar-b-q.
I’ve been sick for the past several days so my cooking has been limited to thawing out the reserves I had stashed in the basement freezers or cold sandwiches but today I finally mustered up enough energy to cook on my new bar-b-q.
For starters, I make the hamburgers. Have you ever wondered how the restaurants get those perfect diamond shaped grill marks on your steaks and burgers? You try flipping them this way and that way and it never seems to work out just right. Well, let me share a little secret with you. Just before it’s time to flip your meat over, use your flipping tool to simply turn the meat 90 degrees, let it cook for a bit more and THEN flip it over. WALLA! You will have the perfect grill marks that I am 100% sure make your meat taste SO much better.
I like to have bacon with my hamburgers so I decided to break out this really cool veggie rack that I found at Wall Mart. It was working so perfectly for the bacon that I decided to be brave and throw on some asparagus that had been soaking in butter and garlic all night. YUM!
Of course you can’t have a great hamburger lunch without a fresh salad so I dug around in my fridge in search of something crunchy and fresh to serve as a side. The pickings were pretty slim so I had to get creative which seems to be something that comes naturally to me lately. I sliced up what was left of a cucumber, added a can of mandarin oranges, a sprinkle of coconut and topped it with a mixture of sour cream, milk and dill weed. It was WONDERFUL!
Encourage one another!
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