The weather has finally turned this means grill time! Given the climate here in Northern California, we cook out most days during the summer to keep the house cooler and save energy costs. Last year I managed to cook out nearly every day so I'm trying to emulate it again this year. It also means the return of last summer's favorites, tea-soaked chicken breasts, red pepper pesto and shrimp pizzas. I'm also constantly looking out for new ideas, and we tried last night chicken with balsamic bbq sauce, I paired it with a home made Caesar salad, YUM! I am going to try to get about a months worth of recipe ideas into my hand dandy mealboard app on my ipad so that meal planning should be a breeze. I have to say despite the effort it takes to set it up the rewards of this program are huge, I think my only gripe is not easily being able to change the quantities for each recipe as I select them, and I get lazy just getting the basic ingredients in so I can do my shopping list, but it works for me. I generally then double check the recipe on line anyways and read from the original rather than what is in held in the app.
I think the absolute hardest thing for me is veggie night in general, I'm limited somewhat by James's tastes and what the girls will or won't eat so it's always a challenge, kebobs seem to be more often the fare of the day on those nights and I keep looking out for other ideas, but they just seem to be the easiest as a lot of veggies need to be cut up small and often fall through the grate without the skewer. Oh which reminds me portabello mushroom burgers! Great for James and I not so much the kids but will come up with something for them one of these days.
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