The Gospel According to Weber, 3:16
In the beginning there will be fire and beef, followed by the grill. So sayeth Al Roker.
Yesterday my latest accessory for the grill arrived – Weber’s Big Book of Grilling. Wow, what a book! I spent my first hours with it just reading up on the history of grilling, must have ingredients (and why), managing the charcoals, properly cooking meat and even selecting meat – oh, and the forward by Al Roker! This is an encyclopedia of grilling and it should come standard in the box when you buy one. Each recipe tells you the kind of heat to use (direct or indirect) if using charcoal, but it can also be used for gas grills as well. It even has a section on matching the right ales/lagers/beers with the right recipes. And recipes? Oh my! I want to do all of them! I highly recommend this book, and if you don’t already have a good BBQ cookbook then pick this one up.
So, with my new bible tucked under my arm, I proceeded to the kitchen this afternoon to prepare some steaks, having picked up two sirloins at the butchers on my way home from the grocery store just after lunch. They marinated in some olive oil, red wine and balsamic vinegars, garlic, fresh rosemary, salt & pepper (let me know if you want the recipe) for five hours in the fridge. Once the grill was all warmed up I proceeded to fill the neighborhood with such a wonderful smell – I still smell of BBQ even. Added to this was some twice-baked potatoes that I prepared ahead of time and then threw on the grill with the steaks, and some salad (Cindy won’t let the plate be only hues of brown, some green is needed apparently). The end result – very tasty and oh-so perfectly cooked steaks that just melted in your mouth. So far I am 2/2 when it comes to recipes on the grill (yup, still tooting my own horn). Here are the requisite images to go with it.
It was sort of our Last Supper before heading to Dublin tomorrow for St. Patty’s Day! The car picks us up at 13:45 to head to the Leeds Bradford Airport and a few hours later we will be touching down in Eire at 17:30ish. We don’t have much time for dilly-dallying as we need to get to our hotel, drop off our bags and then head to the concert at 19:30. I found out yesterday that Q-Tip is playing in a small venue in the bar district and so we ordered some tickets. Other than that, we have no set plans for the two days that follow. I imagine there will be some time spent in the pubs and we plan on meeting a couple of groups of friends that will also be there. A trip to the Guinness factory will most likely be on the itinerary, and probably a walking tour of the city, but other than that we we will be wining it.
I will end this one here as I am not really in a typing mood. I will be back on Sunday or Monday with an update from our trip, more than likely with some pictures. The ones later in the day may be blurry and a little crooked – just warning you ahead of time!
