Cooking in the Dark with a Stick
I have never posted a recipe! Why you may ask?
Well, I’m not the kind of girl who buys fancy kinds of mushrooms or puts mango sauce on my chicken, if you know what I mean.
So for the witch on a limited … everything … here’s dinner:
Purchase one tiny BBQ grill on clearance at the end of the season for under $15.
Purchase small bags of BBQ briquettes from the local small mountain town discount store, seems the local manufacturer is clearing stock.
Get a BBQ pan 3 for a dollar at the Safety Mart (small town grocery store)
Buy a cool looking knobby yam, extra virgin olive oil and basil at the Safety Mart.
Get a nice big grilling steak from local butcher and cut it in half to serve two.
Realize when you get home you don’t have any fire-starter.
To get coals going, build tiny kindling fire in the bottom of newly assembled BBQ grill. Then pile charcoal over the flames. This is best done on one side of the grill, confined fires burn hotter and all.
Once coals are cheerfully glowing through sheer force of will and patience, spread them evenly and attempt to slide grill into slot over them. It seems my grill will only slide into place if the coals are one deep and lay just so.
Head over to the little orchard in the front yard and find a nice stick of apple wood, then using the stick poke and prod grill into place.
Truck on into the kitchen to peel yam and cut it into rough fry shapes. Give yam peel to silly dogs who think they are starving. (If you don’t have dogs, give the peels to the compost heap or your pig)
Assemble yam fries into BBQ pan and sprinkle liberally with olive oil and basil.
Briefly consider making a steak rub from scratch, then go with the bottled steak spice because you are lazy.
Place the pan on one side of the grill and the seasoned steaks on the other.
Stir around the yam fries so they don’t burn or stick to pan and flip the steaks a couple of times.
When your patience wears thin, cut the thickest part of the thickest steak to check it.
Wait a little more.
Then serve with fresh sliced tomatoes and cucumber along with locally brewed apple cider over ice.
For dessert, use your stick to roast marshmallows over the last of the coals.
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That looks so good. I love to grill out. I usually grill out almost every night during the summer to keep the house cooler.
Brilliant!
This is how I have cooked for most of my life … Go figure: I’ve won cooking competitions on both sides of the Atlantic. Once in France!
Thinking while we cook keeps us smart ;^) Please post more such recipes!