grilling
-
Now’s the Time to Prep Your Oven for the Holidays
Fortune may favour the bold, but the holidays favour the prepared. Prepping your oven for the holidays in the last week of October may seem like overkill, but repairmen can be hard to schedule (getting you out to your home can take weeks!), and it’s best to identify any oven issues well ahead of time…
-
Grill Directly on Hot Coals, You Cowards
This may be a wildly unpopular opinion, but cooking on a gas grill is cheating. There is something both primal and humbling about cooking over an open flame that you started yourself, but you have to let go of a small portion of your ego, and accept that the fire is the one that makes…
-
You Can BBQ a Frozen Pizza
I have never been and never will be “above” eating a frozen pizza (once cooked, obviously). They are convenient. They are tasty. They are customisable. But cooking them has a way of heating up your kitchen, as they need a good bit of heat to get all browned and bubbly. There is, luckily, another scorching…
-
It’s Time to Embrace Hot Pickle Summer
In a development fictional scientists are calling “not really that surprising,” I have grown obsessed with cooking cucumbers, both pickled and plain. First I cooked some of the latter over coals, then I turned my attention to ranch-fried pickles, and now I’m all about — and I mean all about — grilled pickles.