Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Grilling Asparagus

The good thing about grilling is that it preserves the flavor of vegetables as well as maintains the nutritional values. One of the favorite vegetables to be grilled would be the asparagus. To learn how to grill asparagus, read on.

Before learning how to grill asparagus, you will need to know how to select, and store asparagus so that they will be fresh when eaten. Fresh asparagus will have stalks that are tantalizing green. You should select stalks that are right and firm, and has unopened tips. As to store them, you should wrap the bottom of the stalks in a damp paper towel, and then place them into a plastic bag before putting them into the refrigerator. Take them out from the refrigerator and rinse them well when you are ready to grill them.

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Because the bottom section of the stalk if bitter and tough to eat, use only the meatier parts, which can be found by snapping the bottom off. It would snap apart at the area where the two different sections meet.

As the vegetable can dry out easily, apply some oil on the stalks when they are on the grill so that they do not lose their juice. You could whether brush some oil lightly on each stalk, or marinate the stalks. If you select to marinate, more preparations will be needed as you will need to pour the marinade sauce into the bag filled with asparagus with the damp paper towels taken off. Place them in the refrigerator and leave them to marinate for half an hour. After that, you can take off the asparagus from the marinade, with its excess dripped off, and onto the grill.

When you grill them, keep them lying tightly together, and not on top of one another. Grill them for two minutes on high heat and then turn the stalks over carefully with tongs and then grill for other two minutes. If needed, you can cook them longer. After that, it is all ready to be eaten. Serve, and enjoy!

Grilling Asparagus

Homemade Bbq Grills, Roasters and Smokers

When you decree to get yourself a grill the very first option you have to make is to go out and buy one from the local garden or home revising centre or to make your own. You may be the type of man that would never entertain the notion of building your own Bbq grill, but since your reading this report I'm assuming that you're at least considering the possibility! So let me try and get you over the line and convince you why it's such a good idea!

One of the most common reasons a lot of people will select the Diy route is money, and it's a perfectly good reason, anyone other than the most basic store bought Bbq can run into hundreds of dollars, and when all is said and done, all we want it to do is cook our food, and a homemade grill will do this as well as Any store bought grill. Depending on the materials you already have available all your grill may cost you is your time, otherwise you should be able to beg, steel or borrow what you need without spending more than a hundred bucks.

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For me though, the particular biggest motivation for building your own Bbq is the satisfaction that you get from building it, never is this sweeter than while your watching the steaks and burgers sizzling away the first time you fire it up. It's a great buzz, and something you'll never get from a store bought Bbq, no matter how many features it has!

Another good motivator for getting off the couch and building your own is the freedom of produce and expression that designing something yourself, from scratch offers. Maybe you want two levels of grill, maybe three, maybe you would like to have a work top or prep area on one side of the grill or maybe on both sides of the grill! Maybe your seven feet tall and you don't want to strain your back bending down to a accepted height grill, the charm of designing your own is that you can decree on all of these parameters yourself!

So once you've decided to take the plunge and produce and build your own Bbq grill, other world of possibilities opens up! Sure, you can build a accepted grill, but why not consider going the whole 'hog' (sorry!) and building a pig roaster, why not a meat smoker! All of these can be built from a accepted scrap 55-gallon drum and some light angle iron!

Maybe working with metal isn't for you, no problem, you can build your own brick Bbq grill. This is a great increasing to any garden, and when done well, can certainly add a small extra value to the house!!

Whether you're using brick or steel, building a grill or a smoker, the principle is the same, with a small bit of enthusiasm and effort, coupled with a wholesome dollop of good information, you can build something with your own hands that will pay you back with quiet satisfaction every time you use it!

Homemade Bbq Grills, Roasters and Smokers