Grilling Ideas...Need Help

[jmcrawf1]

I love to grill. But everytime i fired up the grill, I find myself cooking the same old things (Grilled Chicken, Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Steaks). Do any of you gorillas have any "outside the box" grilling ideas or recipes? What do you guys grill? Fish? Corn? Veggies?

[Darrell]

I grill Salmon on some foil. Take the salmon steaks, place them on a piece of foil, pour Italian dressing on them and sprinkle old bay. Let them cook, they're delicious. I also grill corn on the cob a lot.

[OtterAKL4987]

Shrimp on skewers is pretty hard to beat. I usually do a cajun seasoning. Delicious. Also, I have been meaning to try lamb as well.

[snkbyt]

Ribs w/BBQ

[field]

I like to grill Lamb - especially racks. Also Bacon wrapped BBQ Shrimp on skewers is killer! Make extra. Kind of like humidor space, cant have enough.

Cant go wrong with Ribs or Brisket if you have some time, and temp you can control. I do lots of corn in the summer, and sliced spuds.

Or, take some potato, sliced thin, diced onion, butter, salt and pepper, and shredded cheese: Put in a heavy duty foil pouch all mixed in together, throw it on the grill. YUMMY.

Have fun!

[The Professor]

two of my favorite things to grill are corn and asparagus. for corn, I've done it husk on, husk half on, and husk all off -- they all turn out good, just depends on your mood. I usually baste them in garlic butter.

for asparagus, use skinny ones and cut off the bottom inch-ish (always ends up too stringy for my tastes). put them in a pan and sprinkle with olive oil, salt, pepper, granulated garlic, and any other seasoning you want to use. grill until tips are crispy and black, basting with remaining olive oil/seasoning mix from the pan.

[boonedoggle]

Try grilling salmon, tuna steaks, and other fishies on an apple or cherry wood plank. Gives your food a great smokey flavor! mmmmm

[Bob]

Jalapenos stuffed with cheese on a grill are smokin good. Hold the split peppers together with toothpicks....

or Make a foil pouch....Put in it all the kinds of veggies you like add a few fish fillets or whole fish including head and add a bit of beer close foil pouch and grill . You can poke a couple of holes in the top to get that grilled flavor.

[qwerty1500]

Originally Posted by jmcrawf1

What do you guys grill? Fish? Corn? Veggies?

Yep ... grill all kinds of stuff.

Fish ... salmon, grouper, red fish, snapper, mahi mahi, tilapia, trout, whatever ... great on the grill. Anything fresh is good. Baste with olive oil and season it with what you like before you put it on the grill over direct heat. Just don't over cook it ... just to where the fish flakes. Invest in one of those flat locking baskets ... makes it easy.

Someone mentioned shrimp on a skewer. Try this ... wrap each of the shrimp once around in a small piece of bacon. When it's just about done (shrimp turns pink and the bacon is brown), coat it in a sweet BBQ sauce. Little nuggets from heaven.

Corn ... leave the husk on the ear and soak the ears in sugar water for about an hour. Some folks leave the silks on the ears but I usually cut off the ones that stick out of husk before I put them on the grill. Put the ears on the grill as far away as possible from the direct heat and turn them often. It takes about 20 minutes and is done when you can stick fork in it and it feels tinder.

Vegetables ... Cut up some peppers into rings (we usually use a green, red and yellow one ... makes the dish look good). Cut up some red onions, portabella mushrooms and tomatoes. Mix them up and drizzle some olive oil and your favorite seasoning (we use creole or cajun) over them. Put them in one of those baskets I mentioned earlier and pop them on the grill. A couple of minutes on each side over direct heat. It doesn't take long to cook so keep an eye on them.

Grilled cabbage is a vegetable that everyone around here seems to like ... it's the only way I can eat that stuff ... . Cut up a head of cabbage into quater or smaller chunks. Season with salt and pepper. Wrap each chunk in aluminum foil with a good sized glop of butter in each foil packet. Turn it a few times and it should be done in 20-30 minutes.

Just some ideas .... experiment ... you can cook just about anything on the grill. Whatever it is ... it goes great with a martini and a cigar.

[Bob]

I think my brother wrap his Jalapenos in bacon to hold them together...

Add some fresh pineapple to whatever you end up with! Make you a simple brown sugar glaze to baste it with, you end up with tender insides, nice caramel crunch on the exterior. Cut off top and bottom of pineapple, stand on the end, cut in half, then quarters, then into eights, slice off small core area from each spear, then trim off rind. You will end up with 8 mostly same size spears, triangular in shape.

Sugar glaze: 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar, 1/2 cup lime juice (fresh is best), a tablespoon of vanilla extract (A vanilla bean works well here, if available - scrape insides of bean, put paste and remaining bean halves in saucepan, remove bean before pouring up.)

Heat all ingredients in a sauce pan over medium heat til completely liquefied. Strain out any solids, put sauce in a squeeze bottle, it will keep in the fridge for weeks or a month, if it last that long. Also good as a glaze on just about anything you grill!

Use glaze to taste on the pineapple spears. Enjoy

[hova45]

grilled calamari with a light teriyaki sauce is awesome along with some red snapper or salmon.

[jpa0741]

Originally Posted by Bob

Jalapenos stuffed with cheese on a grill are smokin good. Hold the split peppers together with toothpicks....

or Make a foil pouch....Put in it all the kinds of veggies you like add a few fish fillets or whole fish including head and add a bit of beer close foil pouch and grill . You can poke a couple of holes in the top to get that grilled flavor.

Originally Posted by Bob

I think my brother wrap his Jalapenos in bacon to hold them together...

You people are killing me with these jalapeno recipes.

[rusty pittis]

mmmmm.....asparagus on the grillis awesome....have made bacon on the grill...nice taste to it when done...also Pineapple rings ,,,just put sear marks on and then sprinkle some cinnamon and a scoop of vanilla ice cream...yeeehaw....also jalapeno peppers with bacon strips wrapped around them are great on the grill

[AAlmeter]

Originally Posted by jpa0741

You people are killing me with these jalapeno recipes.

I like to smoke mine.

I use jalapeno and banana peppers usually. Stuff them with a mix of blue cheese and cream cheese. You can throw some bread crumbs in too if you like, helps brown them up a bit. Wrap them in bacon and stick a toothpick through them to hold.

Then I throw them on the smoker at around 200-225 until the bacon cooks, usually 3 hours or so.

Make twice as many as you think youll need, people love them.