Smoking any type of meat isn't as intimidating as grilling can be. The thing you got to remember about smoking is that smoking is low and slow. You don't have to worry about when to flip your choice of meat or wether to use indirect heat or direct heat. Pretty easy peasy. All you have to do is figure out what type of wood pellets/chips to use , what type of meat you want to smoke, and how you want to flavor that meat. Let the smoker do the rest. I have a Traeger Smoker and their ... continue reading...
Easy 3 Ingredient Grilled Chicken Marinade
Easy Grilled Chicken comes out so tender and juicy and all you need is 3 store bought ingredients. You will want to keep these ingredients on hand all Summer long for a simple grilled chicken recipe! Serve this chicken with some grilled potatoes and onions or grilled roma tomatoes. It was my Birthday on Thursday this week and my one friend got me a new grill and I love it. It is so much different then a smoker. Smokers are meant to be used for cooking food low and slow and this grill heats up ... continue reading...
Tropical Fruit Pizza
Do you ever look at your old photos on Facebook that come up in your news feed for memories? The other morning, I saw some pictures on there from Hawaii. My family took a trip to Kauai and we were there at about this time last year. That took me back to the tropics. Seeing that pic also made me want to make something tropical-ish and that is how this fruit pizza came about. I've done this ever so popular 2 ingredient dough recipe with fruit pizza before and used mixed berries and some ... continue reading...
May Chit Chat
Gardening and Landscaping This Summer my goal was to control weeds better and plant some more perennials in my yard. Perennials are nice because you don't have to keep on planting them and planting them. In my backyard I get a lot of tall crab grass and weeds in my garden area and in order to control that better I laid down some garden carpet (thats what I like to call it) and covered it with rocks. I had to pull out a couple of trees that were starting to grow in that area and those were a ... continue reading...
Pan Seared Walleye (Lemon Pepper)
Pan Seared Wall-Eye is just one easy method for cooking pretty much any type of fish. The type of fish used, doesn't have to be walleye. It can work with just about any type of white fish such as cod or tilapia. One of my favorite type of fresh water fish is walleye. You can find it all over menus here in the Midwest and Walleye is on 29 percent of Minnesota menus. If you order a fish sandwich the type of fish used is walleye. At Mezzaluna they have Panko Walleye Tacos, at the Toasted Frog ... continue reading...
Beer Brats Recipe
Beer Brats - German Sausages submerged in onions and beer and cooked on the grill. These are a classic Summer time treat in the Midwest! One of the foods us Midwesterners like to enjoy during the Summer are bratwursts. Cook that bratwurst in some beer and you've got a classic Midwestern favorite made on the grill. I remember having beer brats at my exes cabin all the time whenever we went there and that was the first time I had one. I'm surprised it took me this long to share the recipe on my ... continue reading...
Italian Pasta Salad – Weight Watchers
Italian Pasta Salad - A lightened up version of the classic Summer pasta Salad loaded with cherry tomatoes, turkey pepperoni, mozzarella balls, and cucumbers. Pasta Salads are pretty much a blank canvas and you can add to them whatever your little heart desires! The hardest part about making them is probably boiling the noodles and doing all the prep work. If you don't know how to boil noodles by now, there's probably plenty of youtube videos of that online. Don't like cucumber? Leave ... continue reading...
Smoked Bacon Wrapped Shrimp
Smoked Bacon Wrapped Shrimp - massive jumbo shrimp wrapped with bacon and marinaded in a teriyaki pineapple sauce - The perfect appetizer or entree for your next bbq or entree depending on what size shrimp you use. Smoked Bacon Wrapped Shrimp Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Hope everyone is having a great 3 weekend. I know Memorial Day is the start to many fun and exciting things like the start of lake season (if you live in the Midwest), grilling season, and Summer! My favorite ... continue reading...
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