travel, eat, cook and repeat
Cooking on a grill – charcoal, gas or other
With Memorial Day here, the summer grilling season is on. I prepared these super-tasty chicken drumsticks on the grill on Saturday for lunch. Try these with cold beer or a sweeter white wine. EASY CRISPY SPICY KOREAN-STYLE GRILLED CHICKEN DRUMSTICKS (OR CHICKEN WINGS) …
SICHUAN STYLE GRILLED LAMB SKEWERS WITH CUMIN Spicy lamb skewers, which are full of flavor, come together quickly in this dish made for grilling in spring or summer. Serve with fried rice for a complete meal, or as an appetizer. Ingredients: …
INDONESIAN STYLE BEEF/LAMB SATES This is a quick and easy grilling recipe. ‘Sates’ are sold in roadside stalls all over the region from Malaysia and Singapore to Indonesia. Chicken, beef and lamb are the most popular meats. The Indonesian version here is sweeter, more …
KOREAN STYLE KALBI BBQ (SHORT RIBS) I have been a big fan of Roy Choi since his early days and have enjoyed the food from his ‘Kogi’ truck as well as at some of his restaurants. I recently grilled beef short ribs using his …
GREEK STYLE ROTISSERIE LEG OF LAMB I just bought a new grill with a built-in rotisserie and I couldn’t wait to try it. Even though the weather has been cold, I cooked a whole chicken on the grill a couple of weeks ago and …
THE BEST JUICY DELICIOUS CHICKEN KEBAB (RESHMI KEBAB) Chicken marinated in herbs and cheese (South Asia) This is my adaptation of a very popular chicken kebab from South Asia, mainly from Eastern India and Bangladesh. Roadside vendors can be seen grilling these kebabs over …
GRILLED (BBQ) CAULIFLOWER 2 WAYS This year thanks to my wife’s green thumb, we have a bounty of vegetables from our small garden. Last summer, we had so many tomatoes that we ended up making sun dried tomatoes, as well as canning tomatoes. We …
THE BEST JERK CHICKEN I love Jerk chicken and have been making it for many years, however it never ended up tasting as good as what I had in the Caribbean or in an authentic Jamaican restaurant. After a ton of research and after …
GRILLED SMASH(ED) BURGER I have been craving burgers for a while, especially the crispy thin meat patty commonly called the smash burger. The key to having the thin crispy meat patty is a higher fat content of the meat and high heat which quickly …
THAI STYLE GRILLED FISH I have been craving fish for the last month or so, ever since returning from traveling to the Northwest US and Alaska and then on to South Asia. Usually I crave meat and veggies, but all of a sudden my …