Category Archives: grilling

Grilled Sweet Potatoes

It’s hot and muggy here in SoCal.  Hot enough and sticky enough to remind me of all those summers in Iowa.  But it won’t get as hot and it won’t last as long.  That’s good news because our apartment isn’t … Continue reading

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Quick and Easy Potato Salad

Comedian Ron White has this really funny monologue where he says that he once gave an alias to a cop by telling him that “They call me “Tater Salad”.  Well today’s recipe is ‘Tater Salad” but they still don’t call … Continue reading

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Cheap Bastid’s Pretty Doggone Good Grilled Hamburgers

Yeah, I make a “pretty doggone good hamburger”.  Other bloggers and recipe sources have been extolling the virtues of their “perfect hamburgers”or “the only hamburger recipe you’ll ever need” or “the best grilled hamburger” all over Yahoo and other places … Continue reading

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Grilled Loin Chops with Sweet Hot Mustard Glaze

Mrs. CB has been off to North Carolina visiting her best friend in the world for a couple of weeks.  It’s amazing that when I’m left to cook for one that I’m for some reason not very motivated.  (Maybe that’s … Continue reading

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Got a Jones for a Carne Asada Burrito?

What do you do when you get a “jones” for a carne asada burrito?  You can go out and buy one someplace or you can make your own, right?  Most of the time it’s easier to just go out and … Continue reading

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