I recently bought a house and have a nice backyard/patio space and I'm trying to decide if I would use a grill enough to justify buying one. I can only think of a handful of things I'd make with it- veggie kabobs, sliced eggplant, and the occasional veggie burger/dog. Do you grill? What do you like to cook on it?
Posted May 17, 2020, 12:15 AM UTC
I like to thinly slice sweet potatoes length wise, toss with oil, salt and pepper and grill
Also, pineapple
corn and vedgie borgers
Asparagus!
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Honestly, we've barely used ours at all now that we're not grilling meat. I have another suggestion for outdoor cooking that might be weird and of no use to you, but I have gotten SO much use out of my solar cooker the past few summers. I love to put out a pot of beans to cook, or whole beets to bake, or greens to braise, or pasta sauce to simmer. The brand of mine is Sun Oven, which is fantastic, but there are others.
I volunteer at a farm making CSA boxes in the summers and they have a sun oven! On nice mornings someone will make breakfast for the crew in it- super interesting!
Then you know all about their magic! I was surprised how practical it ended up being for me. It gets right up to 300-350 on a nice clear day and it's very hard to burn things in there, so it cooks faster than a slow cooker but you don't need to babysit it like the stovetop or oven. You do need the time during the day, though.
Mostly just veggies burgers. They are so much better on a grill. I also do barbecue tofu, veggie skewers, corn, veggie sausages, and zucchini.