Fun in the Kitchen
The Big Green Egg (BGE) is a popular kamado style ceramic grill, but it is much more than just a grill. Sure, it produces an outstanding barbecue, but it can also be used in numerous ways that a traditional briquette or gas grill can’t.
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Some of my favorite recipes use leftovers from previously grilled meats. I love using leftover turkey, roasts, and now pulled pork. That is what we did for these Pulled Pork Enchiladas. Last weekend, Jason grilled a melt-in-your-mouth pork shoulder that was delicious. We had a lot of leftovers, and some of those made it into this recipe. Add in the homemade enchilada sauce and you’ve got yourself an easy and nutritious weeknight meal.
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This Sausage and Peppers on the Big Green Egg recipe is a very easy and satisfying dish. Those two elements make this a great meal to make for a busy family who wants to have a fun and tasty dinner at home instead of spending money on eating out.
I am under the mindset right now that everything tastes better in a cast iron skillet.
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It was a dark and stormy night…
That’s how every good story starts, right? Well, it really was a dark and stormy night in the winter. I had a nice pork belly that had been curing for a week and Sunday was the day I was going to smoke it on the egg. Delicious, home cured bacon was just a day away.…
We are huge outdoor people in the fall, winter and spring. We don’t enjoy the humidity and the bugs and tend to stay away from them during the hottest months. The weather this year has been weird, so a couple of weekends ago we had a mid-winter uptick in temperatures that resembled an unexpected spring and we took full advantage of it….
Hmmmm, let’s talk about Grilled Beer Brats on the Big Green Egg!!! There is part of me that thinks I should save this recipe until September or October. That way it will be fresh for the Oktoberfest time frame but what the heck.
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Several years ago, when Jason and I started to grill more frequently, we would look for lots of different dry rub recipes to try on our Big Green Egg. Some were hits and some were duds – but isn’t that just how it goes?
Around the same time, Jason began to experiment with making his own brisket rub. That led to us make our own BBQ rub for our favorite Beer Can Chicken on the Big Green Egg recipe . …
Have you ever made a recipe where everyone in the family goes “ok, this is better than any restaurant chicken I have ever had?” Meet Rosemary Garlic Chicken on a Cast Iron Skillet. Please take an extra moment for the name of the recipe to sink in. It is that good.
Let’s just start with my love for cooking and grilling on cast iron. Oh my gosh! I thought my All Clad pans would remain my favorite, but cooking on cast iron just cannot be beat!
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Spence is on a homemade nacho kick right now and thinks he has perfected the Loaded Cast Iron Skillet Pulled Pork Nachos recipe.
Yes, he is a teenage boy that cooks! (Too bad that we can’t get him to clean his room – we have to pick our battles!)…
This A1 sauce grilled steak just can’t be beat. It will leave your guests wondering about the complex tastes on the freshly grilled steak. It will be your little secret that it was a one ingredient marinade!
Have you ever wanted to grill but didn’t want to spend hours cutting, prepping, and otherwise getting ready for the grilling marathon? I have those days. …
Have you ever enjoyed a nice juicy rib eye at steak house and wondered why their steaks tasted out-of-this-world amazing? You know how you’re sitting at the table and they bring you the hot, sizzling steak on a cast iron platter? The steak is piping hot and we don’t seem to notice the little bit of magic that is melting sweetly on top…yeah, it is probably gone by the time you sink your teeth into the steak and groan with delight. …
Smoky, grilled meatloaf on the Big Green Egg is one of the easiest meals to prepare and cook. With the platesetter installed on the egg to create indirect heat, and the meatloaf nestled nicely in a stone dish, you will get a delicious main course with a hint of that delicious smoke flavor.
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We have a love-hate relationship with Costco. The prices and selection on their fresh meat are great, but watching the total bill ring up on the register just hurts. That was especially true when it came to our desire to have grilled pork shoulder.
And yet, we keep going back.
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Spencer’s all time favorite chicken from the grill is Huli Huli Chicken! When we lived in San Pedro, CA years ago, we became addicted to eating at this Hawaiian-fusion chicken restaurant called Maui Chicken. It was so yummy and hands-down one of our favorite places to eat!
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Our family can’t get enough of this Beer Can Chicken! This is the “go-to” grilled chicken recipe in our house. You know when you find that one recipe that turns out amazing every single time you make it? That is how this Beer Can Chicken on the Big Green Egg recipe is for our family.
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Jason and I have been making these wings for so long, I can’t remember the first time we made them. It has to have been at least 15 years ago, and I think we started by baking them in the oven.
When we finally got our own Big Green Egg in 2008, we started to grill them, and we have never gone back to cooking them any other way.
We took them to a church potluck one time and they were gone in seconds! These wings are so yummy that this became my primary “go-to” recipe for events. …
Brisket was one of the first things I started experimenting with when I bought my Big Green Egg. It wasn’t too expensive, it made a lot of servings and folks said it was easy! All of that has been true to the point my family has the reaction of “another one?” when I say I want to put on a brisket. I have ventured away from my first recipe that I used (or as Ginny would say “over and over again!”) and this BBQ brisket has been a huge hit!
I love this recipe for 2 major reason:…
I am a bit of a nonconformist when it comes to eating breakfast. I leave my house pretty early in the morning to avoid traffic and usually bring my breakfast with me to eat after I get to work. I used to bring a couple of hard boiled eggs, a piece of cheese, a granola bar and some almonds to tide me over until lunch, but it never really set well on my stomach.
Last year, our family took a trip to Budapest and stayed in a nice AirBnB, but we were not able to make it to the grocery store to get any eggs, so I dove into the leftover Tomato and Cucumber Salad from dinner the night before. Not only did that salad fill me up all morning, but I did not have any stomach issues for the day.…
I love to learn new things!
I stumbled across just such a thing when I found out how vanilla extract is made. There are a whopping two ingredients used to make this: vanilla beans and vodka. Making it at home just had to be less expensive than paying anywhere from $2.50 to $6.50 per OUNCE for vanilla extract. In fact it was!…