Any Time is Grillin Time

olbriar · Mar 23, 2015

I have a two bedroom cabin on the Ninnescah river in Kansas. It's an old house someone moved in there years ago. Nothing fancy for sure but it's close to home and the fishing is good. I want to build a covered deck on the front and I want to build a cooker of some sort... then it would be perfect for me. Here is a pic taken last summer looking out the back toward the river.

jbenham · Mar 24, 2015

Wow, you have your own still! Close to home means you probably get a lot of guests.

I used to think it would be nice to be closer to home so we could stay up here longer. We are 3 hrs from Milwaukee. Now that we have retired up here, I am glad we aren't any closer. Nice pic!

Only in the low 30s yesterday, but I grilled up some pizza burgers anyway. Not much easier than that.

olbriar · Mar 24, 2015

It's a half hour drive to the cabin. The still is actually a very old propane tank that nobody dares to fill lol. I have some great times at the river. I like to fish and the wife loves to fish. Parties are always fun too. Having two bedrooms and two couches that make beds, we often have guests that decide to stay vs driving home. That's ok... it's fun.

I grilled out some burgers tonight. It was warm out but a bit breezy. It was easy cooking and good eating.

My son was over late last week. I was in the middle of grilling some burgers so we sat out on the patio while I grilled.
He was so impressed with the ease of grilling burgers on the pellet grill that he now has a great desire for one. He's had some of my smoking efforts and enjoyed but like most people he is always grilling.... mostly burgers and dogs.
The ability to set the temperature and only turning the burgers over if you want to turned him on. I bet he lands one this summer.

jbenham · Mar 25, 2015

When we had Oreo, she loved the water. She would jump right in and go after anything that moved. That meant no fishing for us.

We don't have room for much entertaining. We usually only invite a couple at a time. In the summer we could have 10 or so.

Burgers are always a nice easy thing to grill. Did you dr. them up some? I would have liked to have gotten a pellet grill. Don't they take a long time to heat up?

olbriar · Mar 25, 2015

We have lots of room for tents... and we have had those that enjoyed pitching one. I have a camper receptacle and water hookup on the exterior for those inclined. The more the merrier

Mostly it's my old school buddies that I have stayed close with.. their kids that my kids grew up with... and now grand kids. It's nothing but good times.

Just guessing, from start to 400 degrees, you are looking at eight minutes for my pellet grill/smoker. I'm very accustomed to the time. I spend that time prepping whatever is headed for the fire... it's no biggie. The fun thing about a pellet grill is it's really a convection oven of sorts. In the winter you can throw your burgers on the grill, run back in and warm up, return to put cheese on them 12 minutes later and bring them in. No turning... no flame ups..
And you don't mind the smoky taste either.

jbenham · Mar 26, 2015

My brother had a cabin on Little Sand Lake in MN. He had lots of space for setting up tents too. He has 4 kids and they would bring up friends. They would eat all his food and drink all his beer, without even an offer to buy more. He sold it and bought a place further away. Maybe one of the reasons we decided to build small. The kids are a lot older now and have kids with kids.

I was under the impression it would take a good 20 minutes to heat up a pellet grill. Have not have the opportunity to eat anything that has been cooked on one.

olbriar · Mar 26, 2015

Fortunately, my kids are all grown. I can see how that could be a serious problem. The only problem I have now is I just can't party all night like the kids. I go to bed and leave the campfire with them.

The pellet grill is an easy way to smoke meats and it makes for a pretty fair grill. I've found it to be more expensive to operate than propane. I think the expense is well worth the difference however. Real smoking is done with wood.
I'm cheating lol. I can set the temp and let it rock and roll. Half the art of smoking is knowing how to obtain the right temp and keeping it constant with wood. I just dial it up... yep, it's cheating. I can set it and go work for a few hours knowing my stuff is doing great without my attention. That's worth a lot to me.

jbenham · Mar 27, 2015

Age has a way of catching up too us..

Half the fun of grilling is being out there, tending to the food, enjoying as beer.

olbriar · Mar 27, 2015

I don't think I've ever grilled without a beer. I might be able to do it... I don't want to find out.

jbenham · Mar 27, 2015

I would lose all sense of timing without one.

Unforgiven · Mar 28, 2015

olbriar said:
I don't think I've ever grilled without a beer. I might be able to do it... I don't want to find out.

jbenham said:
I would lose all sense of timing without one.

qft

olbriar · Mar 28, 2015

I'm grilling out some chicken pieces slathered in bbq sauce tomorrow. I think I'll make a potato salad and perhaps a three bean salad to go with it. I haven't made up my mind just yet. Bbq chicken is the known.

It sounds so good.

olbriar · Mar 29, 2015

I lied. Seems the wife had other ideas. I grilled out sirloin and fresh asparagus and had a baked sweet potato. Am I complaining, no sir.

jbenham · Mar 29, 2015

Rule #1- The wife is always right.
Rules #2- When the wife is wrong, refer to Rule #1.

olbriar · Mar 29, 2015

My wife is not always be right but she is never wrong.

She did the shopping and the butcher pointed out these nice sirloins he was going to mark down... so steaks it was. Hey there were great! I ate too much but that's what happens when it's good.

jbenham · Apr 4, 2015

Thursday was a picture perfect day. It got up to 62, t-shirt weather, it was sunny and I grilled pork steaks. Yesterday, we had temps in the 30s with wind chills in the 20s. Today we have temps in the 20s and we got a bit of snow last night.

olbriar · Apr 4, 2015

It was quite a bit cooler around here yesterday and extremely windy. It's only 40 degrees now but it's supposed to warm into the low 60s today and be warmer tomorrow. Should be a nice day to do some grilling tomorrow.

jbenham · Apr 6, 2015

We have had 3 days in a row in the 20s and got about 3" of snow last night. Welcome to April!

olbriar · Apr 6, 2015

It got to 87 here today. It was down right hot. It would have been a great night to grill out something but... I had Easter leftovers lol. I had planned to cook something out yesterday but the wife had a new casserole she wanted to do. It was good... some sort of breaded and fried pork chop and brown rice thing. It was still good tonight.

jbenham · Apr 6, 2015

Ha! We had 4" of snow this morning.

Preferable to 87. We just had the left over pork steaks for supper.

olbriar · Apr 7, 2015

I'm camping out again this weekend. I'm thinking about making up a bunch of shish kabobs. Would make for something fun to eat and easy grilling. The work is putting them together... something I can do before I head to the cabin. Polish sausage, chicken, steak, surrounded by mushrooms, bell pepper, and pineapple will be the ingredients. I like to grill fresh jalapeno in there somewhere... but it's too early in the year.

jbenham · Apr 10, 2015

Have you seen this? I don't have a Weber, but it looks neat.

Unforgiven · Apr 10, 2015

~drooling~

olbriar · Apr 11, 2015

That does look good. I've yet to try baking a pizza on the pellet grill. I've heard they are great. But that pizza cooker is flat cool.

olbriar · Apr 13, 2015

I bought a new cheap propane grill for the cabin. It was a whopping 179 bucks. Three burner and a side burner. 30,000 BTU with porcelain coated grate. Nothing fancy but it will get me by until I build one. I grilled out some steaks and some chicken Saturday night. It worked.

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