Daily Unadventures in Cooking

Fennel has just started appearing at our farmers markets and I am thrilled because I have really enjoyed all of the fennel recipes I have tried on it before, such as braised, roasted and thrown in risottos. I find a lot of people don’t like it because of the anise flavour. I am not [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

This may seem strange but anything that grows in my garden needs to be able to be eaten raw or cooked on the grill. It helps keeps life, and dishes, simple. This is because at the cabin we have no dishwasher and a teeny kitchen so we try and cook outside as much as possible. [...]

Last weekend the forecast was for beautiful weather and so I picked up a Flank Steak with the intention of a good grilling. Along with it I got a portobello mushroom, an eggplant, a red pepper and a zucchini plus a bag of romaine. The plan? Grill the veggies and add them to a salad [...]

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.Grilled Beets with Balsamic and Rosemary
Beets, trimmed and scrubbedBalsamic VinegarFresh Rosemary, choppedsalt and pepperAluminum Foil
Slice the beets into ~1cm slices, if they are small just slice them [...]

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.
Chile-Coriander Chicken (serves 2-4)
4 chicken legs, [...]

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 [...]

Flank steak is a lean, inexpensive but deeply flavoured cut of beef. When cooking flank steak it is important to marinate it, make sure you cut it across the grain, and don’t cook beyond medium rare.
Flank steak is my favorite cut of meat for the grill, and this is my new favorite flank [...]

So, my long weekend turned a little unexpected on Sunday night at the cabin when we lost power. The power is still out and was out when we left Tuesday. It put a bit of a damper on the weekend especially from a cooking scenario, so much for a Daring Baker experiment, [...]

I love lamb, and make lamb stew and lamb shanks frequently but am new to cooking the lamb chop. However I was impressed by how easy they were to grill. Lamb is so beautiful when paired with rosemary and garlic. The sweet flavour of the meat can really stand up to the strong [...]

I am currently having a minor love affair with eggplant. I have always loved it but since I recently started having success cooking it I have been doing it rather a lot. This is the first time I have done it on the BBQ and it was just as easy as under the broiler. [...]

My little rosemary bush, which I planted back in April, is finally looking healthy enough for me to start harvesting from it. About time too, it has taken all my constraint to avoid cutting it before it got settled. Thank goodness for the healthy parsley, oregano, and sage which I have been using to [...]

This is a simple as it sounds, I had some beautiful summer squash and what I believe to be a fresh banana pepper from a farm stand. I used a bbq grill pan to hold everything and make my life a little easier. If you don’t have that or a grill wok you can do [...]

If you have never cooked flank steak before you are missing out. It is full of flavour, adaptable to tons of cuisines and is super easy on the pocket book. Excellent for my attempts at Cheap Eats! The downside of it is that it is quite a tough piece of meat that you have [...]

The title of this post leaves little to the imagination. The idea behind this is to literally wrap up a bunch of potatoes in some aluminum foil and stick them on the bbq so they cook, no fuss no muss, with other things. You could probably do this quite well in a grill tray but [...]

So I posted a question on chowhound last night and never have any of my threads been quite so popular. As I post this it is sitting at 43 posts and counting. Since I am learning about my grill and all the fabulous things to be made with it I was wondering about [...]