Smoke Signals - August 15, 2018
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Sensational Summer Vegetable Recipes
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Grilled Romaine Salad with Anchovy Mustard Vinaigrette
By Dave Joachim
This salad will change the way you think about grilled vegetables. The grill keeps the lettuce juicy and crunchy but also imparts smoky, meaty flavors.
Get the recipe.
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Caprese: The Essence of August
By Meathead
Caprese salad is the world's best use of tomatoes and possibly the world's best salad and perfect for backyard entertaining. This classic summer dish from the Island of Capri off the west coast of Italy is the essence of August on a plate.
Get the recipe.
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Grilled Italian Eggplant Caponata
By Meathead
Eggplant is one beautiful vegetable and this recipe highlights it wonderfully. Grilling the ingredients adds a layer of complexity to caponata, a traditional eggplant based recipe that is especially popular in southern Italy. Grilled caponata is perfect on a sandwich, as an appetizer on crusty bread, as a sauce for grilled seafood, pork chops, or chicken, in pasta, and even on pizza.
Try it.
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Thai Cucumber Salad
By Meathead
Add a touch of Thai to your next dinner with this recipe for sweet and tangy cold cucumber salad. One of the simple pleasures of dining in a Thai restaurant is the lovely delicate cucumber salad they serve as an appetizer and now you can replicate it at home with this simple to prepare recipe.
Try the recipe.
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Dill Pickles & Pickled Tomatoes
By Meathead
If you're a fan of tangy deli pickles and pickled tomatoes then you'll be ready to dive in to this recipe for classic deli-style Kosher sours. Even better is the fact that they can be made in one day! This recipe is also perfect for pickled tomatoes, a great way to utilize end of season green tomatoes.
Get this recipe.
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Crunchy French-Style Green Beans
By Meathead
You've heard of French fries, well here are French beans, and they're just as good. Nothing fancy about this great recipe other than the taste. In France they use a variety of bean called
haricots vert
s that is longer and thinner than the typical string bean grown in the US, but you can use plain fresh green beans.
Try this.
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Italian Giardiniera
By Meathead
Here's a go-to recipe for Italian Giardiniera, a condiment made from fresh vegetables, chopped into small bits, stored in a simple dressing, and used to top sandwiches and other foods. Giardiniera can be found in every grocery and in the door of every Italian American fridge in Chicago but you've never truly enjoyed its freshness until this recipe.
Get the recipe.
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Quick Pickled Onions
By Meathead
Add a zesty bite to sandwiches, burgers, salads, and more with this simple recipe for crisp and flavorful pickled red onions. The base preparation can be used for so many different veggies, and it can be made in only 30 minutes. Try countless other types of pickles, including cucumbers, scallions, ramps, leeks, sweet peppers, and green beans.
Get the recipe.
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Zucchini Stroganoff
By Meathead
While traditionally made with beef, this unique zucchini twist on Stroganoff is a great way to mix up your traditional weeknight dinner menu. While the recipe is meat-free, the other flavorful components of classic Stroganov remain the same including mushrooms and onions sautéed in butter with a sour cream sauce.
Try it.
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Grilled Marinara Sauce
By Meathead
Take your pasta dishes over the top with this incredibly rich and deeply smoky grilled marinara sauce recipe. Marinara sauce is the classic Italian tomato sauce from Naples, but you can amplify the flavors by grilling the tomatoes and other fresh ingredients. The end result is something that is truly special.
Get the recipe.
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Smoked Cream of Tomato Soup
By Meathead
Smoked tomatoes are the key to the most flavorful tomato soup you have ever experienced. Ordinary tomato soup, especially canned versions, can be rather one dimensional. By grilling the ingredients in this smoked tomato soup recipe, you are able to reach a depth of flavor that is sure to make it an instant classic.
Try it.
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Grill Roasted Honey Butter Cabbage
By Meathead
Make boring cabbage extraordinary by hitting the grill, resulting in a crisp, sweet and smoky BBQ side dish. There's something transformative about grilling vegetables and this recipe for honey roasted cabbage is no different, elevating its flavors far above its traditional boring (and odiferous) boiled cousin.
Try this recipe.
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Sous-Vide-Que Charred Carrots
By Clint Cantwell
Grilling carrots can be a challenge but the addition of sous vide ensures that they are cooked to perfection before being grilled. A temperature controlled water bath cooks the carrots until fork tender. Once perfectly cooked, the carrots a grilled over high heat just long enough to give them a nice char and smoke.
Try this technique.
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Modern Gazpacho
By Meathead
Perfect for a warm weather cookout, this flavorful Gazpacho recipe is a modern twist of this classic Spanish cold raw vegetable soup. Sometimes called liquid salad, this well rounded Gazpacho recipe features tomatoes, cucumber, garlic, jalapenos, croutons, yogurt, scallions, honey, and more for farm fresh flavor.
Get this recipe.
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Two Peachy Summer Desserts
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Grilled Peaches & Cream With Rum Sauce
By Meathead
Peaches and cream, a classic summer treat and a combo as natural as peanut butter and jelly, are taken to new levels with a touch of grilling char and smoke. Peaches are halved and grilled until soft and smoky before being chopped and served with ice cream and a drizzle of mouthwatering rum, maple, and vanilla.
Get the recipe
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Grilled Peach Crumble Will Make Your Summer Complete
By Clint Cantwell
This delicious and easy grilled peach crumble recipe is the perfect summer dessert for any backyard BBQ. Fresh seasonal peaches are halved, then grilled cut side down until lightly charred. Top the peaches with a simple crumble mixture then smoke over indirect heat until golden brown. The recipe is amazing and worth trying.
Try this recipe.
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Known for its freshness and crunch, corn can be found at roadside stands across the country this time of year, and most likely at your local grocery as you read this. The only time to buy corn is when it is in season. Hey, that's now!
Learn everything you need to know about corn here.
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Griddle Grilled Bacon Jalapeno Wrapped Corn
By
Paul Sidoriak
This griddle grilled corn dish makes a perfect accompaniment to almost any recipe, but it could star as a lunch all by itself. The sweetness of the corn works great with the saltiness of the bacon, and the punch of heat from the jalapenos is tempered by the cream cheese.
Try this recipe.
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The Ultimate Grilled Corn on the Cob
By Meathead
You will never look at corn the same way again after trying this recipe for the ultimate grill roasted corn on the cob recipe. While boiling and steaming are popular methods of cooking corn, the smokiness and caramelization achieved by grilling it directly over live fire are unmatched. Butter and tarragon help round out the flavor.
Get this recipe.
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Cole Slaw - The Science. The Recipes.
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In our opinion, cole slaw is the world's best salad. Period. Crunchy, juicy, and refreshing with bright sweet/sour/salty/savory flavors, it kicks the butt of any wimpy limp lettuce salad. But more important, slaw is the perfect accompaniment for barbecue. There are so many versions of this backyard side dish essential. Read
The Science of Slawsome Slaw
to learn all about them and to discover a few other recipes in addition to the two below.
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Sweet-Sour Slaw
By Meathead
Looking to step up your coleslaw game? Here is a simple recipe that is sure to impress your guests. In the South there are two kinds of slaw: sweet-sour and creamy. Sweet-sour is vinegar and sugar based. Creamy is mayo or sour cream or buttermilk based (or a blend of them).
Try this easy to make recipe.
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Wonderful Waldorf Slaw
By Meathead
No BBQ or grilling party is complete without coleslaw but unfortunately this beloved side dish can be lacking in flavor. The recipe for a great slaw borrows from the famous Waldorf Salad, replacing lettuce with cabbage before adding apples and walnuts for a crisp, delicate, crunchy, sweet, and sour coleslaw.
Get this recipe.
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Here are medal winning tools that will help make the harvest season taste better.
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Mr. Bar-B-Q 06805Y Stainless Steel Mesh Roasting Pan
Grill toppers are essential for grilling and smoking small objects such as slices of onion and peppers and nuts. I prefer them for small chunks of meat, too, instead of fussing with skewers. On skewers, it is hard to keep the meat from spinning around, and getting the meats and veggies on the same skewer together is almost impossible.
Get yours
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Frogmats Non Stick Grill Mat - In Multiple Sizes
Frogmats are a sturdy wire mesh grill mats with a non-stick coating capable of resisting high heat, yet they are easy to clean. You can use them for all manner of vegetables, as well as onion rings, potato slices, mushrooms, bacon, and biscuits. They are great for smoking nuts and dehydrating tomatoes and peppers.
Get some.
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Weber Style 6435 Professional-Grade Grill Pan
Another favorite grill topper is the Weber Style Grill Pan, It has plenty of slots for smoke to travel through and plenty of surface to brown things like salmon cakes. It also allows you to grill all kinds of vegetables successfully.
Grab some.
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OXO Good Grips Tongs
Dishwasher safe stainless steel with OXO's popular nonslip rubber handles, these tongs are the winner of the Tylenol/Arthritis Foundation Design Award. They are spring loaded and the ends are scalloped for better gripping. And they come in multiple sizes. There is a loop for hanging and a mechanism that locks them in the closed position for storing.
Get a 9" pair.
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July's PMC Gold Medal Give-Away Winner!
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July's Gold Medal Giveaway winner is Sue Brown, a.k.a.
crunchysue!
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Blameless Takes the Silver
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Blameless Cooking EasyBBQ Wireless Thermometer Review
By Bill McGrath
The Blameless Cooking EasyBBQ thermometer is a six-channel wireless remote food thermometer that comes with four color-coded probes. It communicates with an Apple or Android app via a Bluetooth. This thermometer has the features you want to see in a product like this, and it is easy to operate. The manufacturer claims that the probes and their cables are rated to 716ºF (380ºC), higher than most competing products. I tested it and accuracy is acceptable if not outstanding, and the price is competitive. We gave it a Silver Medal for bui
ld
quality and performance.
Read the review here.
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