It's Grill season whats on your plate

[slim]

OK everyone it is Grill season (between memorial day and labor day) what are your favorite things to grill? Please share recipes.

My favorite thing to grill would have to be corn on the cob (yea I know really original)
I soak the corn husks, silk and all in water for at least 20 minutes up to 40 minutes. Throw the soaked corn on the grill at medium high heat for about 40 minutes turning the corn every 5 to 10 minutes. Pull the corn off husk them (be careful they will be hot) the water that soaked in will steam the corn and the grill will caramelize the corn even through the husks which will be very burnt by the time they are done.

The second thing I love to make on the grill is baked potatoes. Wash the potatoes (cut any bad pieces off) place the washed potato on a individual piece of aluminum foil. Drizzle a little olive oil on the potato, put some salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, celery salt, garlic salt, oregano on the potato. Wrap the foil around the potato place on the grill for about 1 hour depending on the size of the potato (I usually use large Idaho baker potatoes) I prefer my potatoes very well done almost charred on the bottom so the very bottom is crispy so I put them 30 minutes on indirect heat (one side of the grill without the burner on or on the top rack) and 30 minutes right above lit burner. The grill should be about 350.

I try and grill all year long nothing is better then a nice grilled dinner in the middle of the winter helps chase away the winter blues. Now it is your turn.

[Pat McCotter]

Gas grill?! Bah!! Charcoal all the way! Throw some mesquite or hickory sticks in for flavoring!! Yeah!! Meat!! Thick juicy steaks!!! Yeah!!

[NJLiberty]

Gas??? That's not grilling, that's just moving the stove outside

I'm not much of a fan of charcoal either. I prefer hardwoods, here that means I am usually cooking over maple, oak, or apple, or some combination of the three. Sometimes I will use hickory as well, but I don't have as much of that available.

As far as food goes, corn is always good, steaks are great (did a london broil tonight). I also do other vegetables in the same manner you do the potatoes, wrapped in foil with a little butter and some herbs. Whole poultry is also a good thing for the grill.

George

[Dylboz]

When you have an electric stove, propane and propane related products are a quantum leap forward. I use a can with mesquite chips next to the burner for more "authentic" flavor, but I've already set up a smoker pit, soon to be occupied by a vertical smoker with drip pan for the good gravy!

[slim]

Gas??? That's not grilling, that's just moving the stove outside

I'm not much of a fan of charcoal either. I prefer hardwoods, here that means I am usually cooking over maple, oak, or apple, or some combination of the three. Sometimes I will use hickory as well, but I don't have as much of that available.

As far as food goes, corn is always good, steaks are great (did a london broil tonight). I also do other vegetables in the same manner you do the potatoes, wrapped in foil with a little butter and some herbs. Whole poultry is also a good thing for the grill.

George

Yes I will be the first to admit I am a wussy with my propane grill but where I live there are private restrictions on open flame grills and I like the convince of the gas especially when the temp is in the single digits and I want a burger that actually tastes good. When I used to go camping it was great to have a breakfast over the fire. Bacon cooked over a nice fire is a experience I wish everyone could have and nights making a peach cobbler in a cast iron dutch oven or some personal pies simply made from bread, butter, and canned pie filling along with a beer and a smoke.

[ancapagency]

I like hardwood, or charcoal (if the wood isn't available--which here in NH it always is).

Chicken breasts are good marinated in Italian dressing, some lemon juice (some lime juice can be good too), salt, and pepper.  Marinate them in the fridge for 6 hours or so before (or overnight is good too).  Good cooked over mesquite, hickory, pecan, apple, or orange wood if you can get it.  Make sure to get the smoke going good as you cook.

Steak is good over hickory, mesquite, pecan, oak--if you can find it, Jack Daniels chips their used barrels for smoking.  tenderize them a bit, rub in a mix of spices, and marinate in a medium coat of Lee & Perrins for a few hours.

[Puke]

Does a G. Foreman grill count?