grillin' time: what's your favorite grub?

[ssampier]

Still a bit cold in Utah for outdoor cooking, but it makes me want some grilled and BBQ'd food ASAP.

I like lots of different foods on the grill: burgers and hotdogs are okay, but pork chops and steak are great, as is grilled corn and many other vegetables. For BBQ, I like my old stand-by: ribs, spare or baby-back.

For grilled food, I like the convenience of propane; too much trouble getting my coals lit for 1 or 2 people. For bbq, it's worth it.*

What's your favorite grilled or bbq food and why?

*My definition of grilled food is something cooked fast (under 1 hour) and bbq is something slow-cooked (>= 1hour)

 

[Aurora]

I love grilled fish and brats & metts.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Pretty much anything.

 

[Graybeard]

I'm getting ready to grill some nice sirloin steaks. Have them marinating right now. Still a little old out but what the heck..I'm getting impatient for the weather here in Mass. to warm up.

 

[ssampier]

Mmm sirloin steak. *looks at temps for Mass* You are a brave man.

Anything, really?

What are metts? I tried googling, but nothing jumped out at me.

 

[Pbartender]

Wow... You guys wait for the weather to grill?

 

[BlueBlackRed]

I love grilled steak.

I'd be out there grilling it right now if I had a steak.

 

[trancejeremy]

Swordfish and Dolphin (Mahi-Mahi) for me (in fact, eating grilled swordfish as I type). However, they are not cheap (especially Swordfish) so more often hot dogs and hamburgers.

 

[Tonguez]

Swordfish and Dolphin (Mahi-Mahi) for me (in fact, eating grilled swordfish as I type).

Word (and I am so jealous!)

Do you give it a squeeze of lime and a nice light salad?

In fact anything seafood is good on the grill, king prawns, mussels in the shell, scallops mmm scallops, paua steaks and of course whole fish straight from the ocean

BBQ = whole pork

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I love to cook, but grilling isn't my preferred method.

However, there are times when you simply must play with fire.

Typically, I grill sausage (first), followed by some kind of beef (usually steaks- Ribeyes or Strips preferred, T-Bones or Porterhouses on occasion), then the stuff that takes a while, like pork or poultry.

(I haven't tried fish yet...)

But my favorite food to grill is actually ribs (pork, usually). I marinate them overnight in a mix of worsteshire sauce, bay leaf, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, lemon juice and beer (a good one- Guiness, Shiner, Shiner Blonde, etc.). They're so tender you could eat them with a spoon, and they don't usually need a sauce*.

Hot, cold? Doesn't matter- the only weather that stops me are the nasty Texas thunderstorms with hail, etc.

*On the subject of sauce- I occasionally make a spicy cherry-mustard sauce. Its sweet, tangy, spicy and a LOT healthier than most BBQ sauces...and amazingly, most people can't tell its not a true BBQ sauce.