In The Danger Zone: WTF?...NO DRIP PAN?

No Recipes!

No recipes you say? YES, No Recipes!

If there are more than four ingredients for anything, I won’t do it. And if there are less than 3 or 4 ingredients, that can’t be much of a recipe.
In my mind, things that you already have and use all the time like salt & pepper, butter/oil, ketchup and mustard don’t count. Things like brown sugar, paprika, garlic powder etc. do count because you don’t use them all the time. This way I can keep it simple and easy so that I am more inclined not to shy away from grilling something I would be afraid of messing up. I love watching Steve Raichlen on TV but I have to scratch my head when I see him line up 17 pinch bowls of stuff for a mop sauce.

So, with no, or minimal recipes to think about, I can grill just about anything and everything and relax and enjoy the therapeutic Zen feeling one gets when embracing this culture.

- Dangerous Dave

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

WTF?...NO DRIP PAN?

Has this ever happened to you?

It was another beautiful summer Sunday morning here in Chestnut Hill, MA. The sun doesn’t hit the balcony until the afternoon so I figured what could be more therapeutic than cooking a “No Recipe” meatloaf on the rescued Weber 18.5” kettle.

Even better was the fact that I had brushed out this grill the night before. So here I was with a clean grill in the morning shade. The “Rescued” grill was calling to me.

I use the Minion method when I’m roasting so I filled up a side basket with about 15 briquettes and lit another 15 in a chimney and went into the kitchen knowing I had at least 10 to 15 minutes to prep the “No Recipe” meatloaf.

This is great, I said to myself while poking holes into the bottom of the foil loaf pan.

Meatloaf prep – 9 minutes.

Ten minutes later or about 20 minutes into my therapy I went out the balcony and dumped the coals into the side basket and went back in to get the meatloaf.

What an awesome morning!