Daily Unadventures in Cooking

A fresh summer salad with southwest flavours prepared entirely on the grill. Can be served warm or cold.

A savoury way to honour the fresh peaches currently in season, their sweetness is a lovely contrast to some gooey Gorgonzola cheese.

Want to know how to get a succulent and juicy pork roast with a crispy exterior on the barbecue? It’s easy with this mustard based pork butt recipe.

Sick of bottled barbecue sauce? Try this spicy BBQ sauce made with dark beer and ginger.

Cooking ribs until they are fork tender is very easy and doesn’t take forever. Get out your grill because once you learn this method and you will be pleasing crowds for years.

People either love dark beers like stout, or hate them. Either way, inevitably you will end up with a bottle or can in your fridge eventually — why not use it to make some juicy grilled chicken?

A grilled chicken recipe with the simplest of Greek marinades — lemon and oregano.

Grilled asparagus is lovely with Asian sesame oil which adds a nutty, smokey flavor to each asparagus spear.

An easy grilled pork tenderloin recipe with a Dijon mustard and sage marinade. Pressing the sage leaves right into the pork not only makes for a pretty presentation but also gives you that lovely charred sage flavour and smell.

Fennel is lovely grilled because it retains some of it’s crunch but also develops that pleasant sweetness which is enhanced with balsamic vinegar.

I like my barbecue sauce spicy, tangy and sweet – in that order. I certainly don’t claim to be an expert on BBQ but this is my best batch of ribs yet and the barbecue sauce is also the best I have made. Maybe it is because I put bacon in it? Just a thought. [...]

A Brazilian Beer Chicken recipe where the chicken marinates for days in a base of beer, garlic, onions and paprika.

This recipe was originally published in late May 2007 and is a repost from the archives. I will be back next week with some all new recipes. Thanks! I have never successfully grilled fish before. So I am seeing this as a bit of a mini victory and the first strike against the evil forces [...]

Sometimes all you want is a simple piece of grilled chicken on a summer day. Well this is it, it uses up what you have in the garden as far as herbs go and is delicious hot off the grill or cold and served on a salad. My friend S made this for me a [...]

Scroll down for the recipe – a simple marinade to enhance the natural flavour of shrimp or prawns, but first an open letter to the fisherman I bought mine seafood from. Dear Mr. Fisherman Please accept my apologies, when I bought these prawns off your boat I was skeptical about what I was buying. I [...]

If it grows in the vegetable garden in the summer, it needs to be grillable. Are you interested in knowing how to barbecue kale?

Flank steak is my favorite cut of meat to grill because it is lean and cheap but still has a rich and gamey flavour.

Just a quick recipe this morning that I made this weekend. One more way to make beets, now I have roasted, baked and grilled them and never been disappointed.

I still have chicken fear – that is fear of poisoning your loved ones. However this is such a good marinade that even if you are me and you overcook the chicken it still tastes good believe it or not. This recipe comes from the The Barbecue Bible. Also check out these other great looking [...]

I made this salad to use up some leftover peppers and as an excuse to buy some beautiful eggplant but as it turned out and the grill recipes are just beginning I thought it was worth posting. I always feel a little guilty buying vegetables from Mexico because it is so far away but they [...]