No, not cigarettes — yuck! I recently got a smoker for my birthday, and put it to good use today on a chicken:
Yes, he kind of looks like R2D2
This is my new charcoal smoker/grill. As you can see its a Brinkmann “Smoke N Grill.” There’s a tray in the bottom that you put the charcoal and a few wood pieces in. Then there’s a water pan, and a grill grate, and then at the top is a second grill grate.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is like THE food holiday, and since we didn’t drive back home, we had our own Thanksgiving dinner here. It was my first time cooking a turkey, as well as the whole dinner. Everything was really good, except my Caramel Apple pie was invisibly ruined. First, the turkey:
Okay, it wasn’t really a fancy dinner party.. We had some friends over and made dinner for them. We decided to make Italian, and we don’t have too many Italian recipes so we could try something new. We came up with spinach-artichoke dip as the appetizer, fettuccine alfredo with grilled chicken, and roasted asparagus on the side. Hit “MORE” for the recipes…
I cooked this chicken last week, and it just turned out so pretty that I had to take a picture of it:
The salmon was prepared with a little olive oil, brown sugar, salt, and pepper. Then broiled for just under 10 minutes.
The asparagus is grilled over high heat for just a few minutes, then tossed in balsamic vinegar and olive oil, then topped with parmesan cheese.
That was a very good meal!
I saw a recipe similar to this in my pretty “Barbeque” cookbook, but I didn’t have most of those ingredients, so I made up my own.
I marinated the chicken in some “Southwest” flavor marinade, and then grilled it on my grill pan. The fruit salsa is a green apple, an orange, some canned pineapple, a tomato, and a little bit of Apricot-Pineapple jam melted and stirred in.
It was really good! It was light, tasty, and pretty healthy.
I took this picture with my new camera too!
