Category Archives: Grilling

Grilled hamburgers and salad. 10/21/23

Easy dinner tonight! I started out by making the Taylor Farms Steakhouse Wedge salad and added some Power Greens, diced red onion, and the last of our daughter’s cherry tomatoes from the community garden. This made enough salad so that … Continue reading

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Grilled lamb chops, sweet potato, asparagus 10/9/23

This is a pretty quick to make dinner. The whole thing took about 1/2 hour. And that it included heating up the grill for 15 minutes! While John was waiting for the grill to heat up I prepped the asparagus … Continue reading

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Deconstructed hamburger and salad. 9/11/23

My experiment with introducing gluten back into my diet did not go well. So I am back to my old lactose and gluten free self. Tonight for our burger meal I decided to deconstruct the way I like to eat … Continue reading

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Grilling on Labor Day. 9/4/23

John makes the most perfect hamburgers! They are juicy and medium rare. What a fine dish to close out the summer and celebrate Labor Day! For my part I made coleslaw with a dressing of mayo/yogurt, vinegar, and celery seed. … Continue reading

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Grilled steak and potato with tomato/cucumber salad. 9/2/23

All-American dinner tonight! John grilled the rib eye cap steak perfectly and did a fine job on the potatoes that I had microwaved earlier. A real star of the dinner was the tomato, cucumber, and red onion salad I made … Continue reading

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Grilled hamburgers, salad, and corn. 8/24/23

Thursday’s dinner was a celebration of summer—outdoors grilling, bright tomatoes, and corn on the cob. Since I have sadly been having trouble digesting gluten I had my hamburgers with its condiments of red onion, ketchup, and mayonnaise bunless. Sitting in … Continue reading

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Grilled rib cap steak and potato, Caesar salad. 8/17/23

Very infrequently we buy a rib cap steak at Costco. The rib cap is what curves around the eye of meat in a rib eye steak. It is a really tasty piece of meat. We do not buy it often … Continue reading

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Grilled citrus-marinated pork tenderloin with tortillas and spicy beans. 8/8/23

We saw this recipe, https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024375-poc-chuc-citrus-marinated-grilled-pork?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share, on the NYTimes cooking site and decided to try it with pork tenderloin. Pork tenderloin is notorious for cooking up tasteless and dry. To counteract that John took the pork and cut it into 1 … Continue reading

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Grilled loin lamb chops, butternut squash, and cauliflower 7/28/23

Today was less hot than previous days so we went with a heartier dinner. When John and I went out to grill the dinner the temperature was in the mid-70s so it was quite pleasant. We really like these Australian … Continue reading

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Grilled hamburgers, salad, and chips. 7/4/23

Happy Fourth of July to all that celebrate it! As is traditional we had a grilled entree. Hamburgers are my favorite meat to eat grilled and John does a spectacular job cooking them perfectly. On my part, I did a … Continue reading

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