Great Ghu, but I'm good
May. 28th, 2012 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo this morning, as noted, Jerry and I built the barbecue.
This afternoon, I seasoned it: a coat of vegetable oil to the interior and a couple of hours' slow burn-in.
This evening? I grilled burgers and sossidges and portobello mushrooms, and we ated them in sesame buns that I baked my own self, to a recipe mildly adapted from Peter Reinhart. As I hadn't made the burgers nor the sossidges, and a mushroom is a mushroom more or less, you will not be surprised that I was most pleased by the buns. Oh, and the serrano chilli that I flung on for the last couple of minutes and munched whole alongside. But everything tasted good (particularly the mushrooms, I thought). There was also a salad of mango and avocado and arugula and cucumber, with a dressing built around our own cilantro and oranges. And then there were grilled bananas and strawberries, where the bananas were a late stand-in for what should have been peaches, but hey.
And yup: it wasn't grand cuisine or marvellous barbecue, but everything worked except the peaches and that's not my fault, so... Yeah. I'm pleased with that. (And Karen liked it, which is actually kind of a definition of "I'm pleased with that.")
This afternoon, I seasoned it: a coat of vegetable oil to the interior and a couple of hours' slow burn-in.
This evening? I grilled burgers and sossidges and portobello mushrooms, and we ated them in sesame buns that I baked my own self, to a recipe mildly adapted from Peter Reinhart. As I hadn't made the burgers nor the sossidges, and a mushroom is a mushroom more or less, you will not be surprised that I was most pleased by the buns. Oh, and the serrano chilli that I flung on for the last couple of minutes and munched whole alongside. But everything tasted good (particularly the mushrooms, I thought). There was also a salad of mango and avocado and arugula and cucumber, with a dressing built around our own cilantro and oranges. And then there were grilled bananas and strawberries, where the bananas were a late stand-in for what should have been peaches, but hey.
And yup: it wasn't grand cuisine or marvellous barbecue, but everything worked except the peaches and that's not my fault, so... Yeah. I'm pleased with that. (And Karen liked it, which is actually kind of a definition of "I'm pleased with that.")