Just got a grill

Trust me on the Hangar Steak. The best cut of meat there is.

DrBoost wrote: Trust me on the Hangar Steak. The best cut of meat there is.

Serious deliciousness there...

Don't forget to include dessert items on the grill. PEACHES!

Can I play?

my first real grill purchase several years ago was a used weber performer.

we grilled a lot that summer, got into doing lots of beer can chickens which are amazing.

for some reason I wanted to do a beer can turkey, figuring a big fosters beer can might be just right for sticking up the turkey's butt. but I had to figure out a way to raise the lid so it would fit inside....needed some sort of spacer ring or something....well guess what comes with exactly that...

the weber rotisserie kit

that really just led us down the road of doing several rotisserie chickens instead, sometimes 2 at a time. equally as good as a beer can chicken, more juicy since its constantly basting itself (whereas you get a nice crispy skin with a beer can chicken)

we still really want to do a rotisserie turkey but it hasnt happened yet.

but yeah yeah yeah sometimes it seemed like a little much work to fire up the charcoal for a whopping 10 minutes of grilling time.

so we had my camp grill set up for several years on the deck. even got a cover for it.

(this is EXACTLY how much fun it was)

with all the use it was getting and sitting outside several years it was looking a bit tired. dont get me wrong these (Coleman Roadtrip) are AWESOME grills...for camping. I think mine is from literally the first year they came out with them, still works perfect albeit looking well worn and dirty. burners are a bit close to the grate though and its small.

been sort of trolling CL for a couple months now for an old weber gas grill. I wanted one with the teak side trays. the ones that looked good in the pics the sellers would never contact us back. others just looked too beat to bother to email the seller. So a couple weeks ago we bought a new Weber Spirit E-210. Which I think is one of their most modestly priced (gas) grilling apparatus. I assembled it and promptly cooked the best steaks I have cooked in years. Yes, years. It was a flatiron steak...been cooking those alot lately or flank steaks.

Been using it several times a week since. Love it.

(haha are these images for real? get out of my yard!)

MadScientistMatt wrote: I tried grilling green beans and button mushrooms this weekend. For the mushrooms, I just used white button mushrooms and pulled the stems off. I put them all in a bowl, poured melted butter on them, and sprinkled with garlic powder, then threw them on the grill. It came out great, but keeping green beans from falling through the grating was tougher than I'd thought, and turning them was very difficult so most came out only grilled on one side. I'll either need to be more careful next time, or use hardware cloth.

may i suggest one of those grilling baskets for vegetables? last time we did a bunch of veggies on the grill (the silly new weber) wife had cut up onions, mushrooms, zucchini, and tossed in some of those little tomatoes, all tossed in olive oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper. the basket was pretty full-ish but i just had to use a spoon to turn them every couple minutes until everything was getting nice and grilled. we grill veggies like that a lot and they always come out good. I need to find a different shaped basket that is more space efficient on my smaller grill.

from now on i will be sure to snap some photos of some interesting things we grill up here.

steak recipe-
done this a couple times with both flatiron and flank steaks. recipe for the rub was pilfered from a weber grilling book but we added the vinaigrette glaze and its amazeballs.

what you need-
olive oil
espresso vinaigrette (2 towns near us have these stores and all they sell are specialty oil and vinegar. different flavors and all that)
rub ingredients-
1tbsp ground dark roast coffee or espresso
2tsp kosher salt
1/2tsp ground black pepper
1/4tsp ground allspice

basically brush the steaks in oil then add the rub. give it a good coating on both sides.

pour some of the vinaigrette into a small pot or pan, stick it on the stove to reduce it a little to be more of a glaze.

grill dem steaks. once they come off the grill, drizzle your espresso vinaigrette glaze over the steaks and let them sit for a few minutes.

eat all the steak.

The other night, started like this:

ended up like this: