What's for Dinner? A Lecture.

What if I told you I knew about something that would make you thinner AND do your dishes for you? (Grill companies, feel free to steal this marketing ploy from me.) My grilling obsession is getting to a point where I find myself becoming hostile when grills are blatantly marketed to men. When you do an image search for grills, 75% of what pops up is this:

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That being said, if people are coming to our house and bringing food to grill, S is in charge. The accountability of ruining someone else's dinner and me do not go well together. Maybe you have heard the term "Happy Wife, Happy Life" or maybe you whisper it into your husband/boyfriend's ear 20 times every night after he goes to sleep. I can't think of anything catchy, but someone should come up with something similar about knowing your grill and enjoying cooking more. Like "Know your Grill, Eat your Fill." Copyright, Trademark.

This grill looks pretty happy, but would likely be happier if it was an automatic gas grill.

This is a quick one to show you how you can make an entire dinner on the grill and not have any pots, pans, or baking sheets to wash afterward. I tossed a small side salad in a cereal bowl for some greens, but you could also throw some asparagus on the grill. We just didn't have any this night. Grills are like cooking at home HEAVEN. They save you calories and fat you would get from pan frying. The grill makes fire, the fire cooks the food, the fire cleans the grill. Fire good. Scrubbing pots bad.

Starting out with drumsticks, sweet potato and eggplant.

After the veggies have been flipped and the chicken has been turned a little

The veggies are ready and when the chicken was fully cooked we basted it with a homemade bbq sauce

Fresh spinach and tomato salad with olive oil and vinegar dressing

And there it is. Dinner.

 If you love doing dishes, raise your hand (KWG, put your hand down). Now that we all have our hands down...... Sometimes dishes are totally worth it. I love making salads in my salad bowl so I don't mind washing it by hand after. Other times I would rather run two miles after dinner in 90 degree heat than do the dishes, but my extreme fear of roaches and vermin gets the better of me. And S peer pressures me into it. Peers. Ugh.

What I love about this blog is that I actually get great feedback from friends and a few have told me that they recently manned the grill for the first time and that kind of thing makes me smile. This will be my last post dedicated to convincing women to grill (I'll just harp on it lightly from now on) but grilling is a major part of what makes cooking fresh food at home easy. The food we put on the grill is always in the form that we purchased it (or post cleaning and prepping).

Closing tidbit is just a reminder that even if you are on a budget, cooking at home is a less expensive and healthier way to feed your family than other options you might think are saving you money. This was kind of shocking to me:

So one last harping post, get to know your grill! It will make you thinner, it will do your dishes for you, and the heat will give your cheeks a nice natural flush. You see, the third secret is.... grilling is sexy. 

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 What else do I need to do to convince you? It's almost soup and stew season so get your butt in gear the next few months and you'll be ready to grill like a pro next March when it's 85 degrees in Texas. 

-RT