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The “Grill-More” Girls – Bone In Pork Chops

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This week, this “Grill-More” Girl is serving up some grilled tasty grilled pork chops!

Pork is a popular menu item these days.  It’s a lean meat and has a mild flavor that blends perfectly with many flavors and seasonings.  Pork is a great alternative to serving steak or chicken.  In the past I’ve shied away from pork, afraid that its leaness would lead to a unedible leathery piece of meat.  Through some trial and error, I’ve found that grilling pork chops that are moist, tender and delicious isn’t as difficult as I thought. Continue reading →

The “Grill-More” Girls – Simple Grilled Veggies

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This week, this “Grill-More” Girl is serving up some simple grilled vegetables!

Backyard grilling doesn’t always have to mean meat. Vegetables are one of the easiest things to make on the grill. Grilling helps to intensify the natural sweetness and flavor of most veggies.  Also, during the summer there are so many veggies that are “in season” either at your supermarket or local farmer’s market that you can prepare an entire meal grilling several different veggies for a main course or stick to just one type for a great side dish. Continue reading →

The “Grill-More” Girls – My Favorite Grill Accessories

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After a brief hiatus (hey it is summertime!) the “Grill-More” Girls are back for some more BBQ fun!  My grilling partner-in-crime Cristina from centraljerseyworkingmoms.com and I have some tasty and fun recipes coming up for you over the next few weeks.  We’ll even have a special “beach/vacation edition” where we’ll be grilling together while we are both vacationing down at the New Jersey shore (by total coincidence we’ll be visiting the same shore resort at the same time!).  On tap for this week’s post, my favorite grill accessories.

It doesn’t take much to be a good griller aside from practice, practice and more practice.  You certainly don’t need to invest in a lot of fancy or expensive tools to become a BBQ star, but there are a few accessories that I find have made my grilling easier, more successful and more flexible in the kinds of tasty dishes you can fire up.

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The “Grill-More” Girls – Pizza De Resistance

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This week, this “Grill-More” Girl is serving up Grilled Pizza.  Yes, you read that right – pizza on the grill.  I’ll be honest, the first time I heard about this from a mom friend all I could think of was “how on earth can you cook that on the grill!”  To me it would seem to come out as such a mess, the dough would fall into the grates of the grill and would never be cooked all the way through before turning into a half-charred, half-raw mess.  I was certainly skeptical, but I have to tell you that it is so super easy and the results will have you tossing your take-out pizza menus into the trash!  Grilled pizza is a great go-to dish for either casual dining or entertaining with friends.

Pizza cooking on the grill, who knew?!

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The “Grill-More” Girls – Ketchup and Mustard BBQ Ribs

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This week for the “Grill-More” Girls, I’m turning over my grilling tongs for a special guest post by my hubs, Tyler.  He is the ultimate grill master in our home. I’ve certainly learned a thing or two about grilling from him!  He’s going to share his recipe & prep steps for Ketchup and Mustard BBQ Ribs.

Hello, I’m Tyler, aka Mr. The Harried Mom, welcoming you to my first and hopefully not last guest blog for my lovely wife!  As you may know from her past posting, I often “man” the grill and enjoy the fact that now it’s warm enough to do more and more cooking outside.  I hope you enjoy a little concoction I whipped up for the family over Memorial Day I call “Ketchup and Mustard BBQ Ribs.”

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The “Grill-More” Girls – Grilled Calamari Salad

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This week, this “Grill-More” Girl continues with her seafood grilling adventure. This week it’s Grilled Calamari Salad.  Before you say “eww” – read on, you might just change your mind and discover a great new and unusual dish.

Grilled Calamari Salad

Calamari is the Italian word for squid. Though hugely popular in countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, most Americans only recognize calamari as that fried appetizer mainstay found on the menu at many a national casual dining chains and Italian restaurants or as some horrific Hollywood created monster of the deep-sea.    If that’s how you think of squid, you’re missing out on quite a delectable treat!

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The “Grill-More” Girls – Simple Grilled Scallops

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This week this “Grill-More” Girl tried her hand at another seafood dish, Simple Grilled Scallops.

Grilled scallops can turn a plain steak dinner into a fab surf and turf entrée or they can stand alone as a tasty main dish.   Scallops are a great source of protein, and if prepared properly they have a very unique, sweet flavor.   I’d only ever prepared them on the stove top in a frying pan or broiled in the oven.  My thought was that they might be too delicate for the grill and that I would char them into burnt little discs, but grilling scallops isn’t tough at all.  It’s easy just as long as you follow a few simple rules…

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The “Grill-More” Girls: Garlic And Lemon Rotisserie Chicken

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Keeping with my goal to be a little more adventurous with my grill meals, this week I’m serving up Garlic-Lemon Rotisserie Chicken.

Rotisserie chicken is a popular meal option these days – from fast food restaurants to the deli counter at your supermarket to wholesale clubs (a CNBC documentary I saw about Costco last week said they sell 55 million of them a year!), and I’m telling you, it is an easy way to cook chicken! Food that is cooked slowly and in a constant rotation, helps to self-baste the food, providing a flavor and tenderness that are hard to achieve cooking any other way.

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Things I Love – Kidfresh Meals

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Ever have one of those days (or weeks) where nothing seems to be going right?  You’re running late from work, errands or school and your kids are so hungry that they are turning into little savages right in front of you?  The last thing you need or want to do with cranky, hungry kids is start cooking them a healthy and balanced meal from scratch.  You need to something to satisfy their hunger quick!  I’m not a big fan of drive-thru since those meals are usually loaded with trans fat, salt and sugar, a triple dietary whammy for kidlets, so it was a good thing I found Kidfresh.

Kidfresh is a healthy, convenient and affordable brand of kids’ meals that are available in the frozen food aisle of the supermarket.  Now, usually when I say the words “frozen dinner,” the last thing that comes to my mind is healthy, but Kidfresh meals really are!

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Grilled Cod W/White Bean Relish & Cherry Tomato Vinaigrette – Recipe Blog Hop

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Every Thursday, my friend Cristina (CC) over at centraljerseyworkingmoms.com and I talk recipes, motherhood and everything in between. We hope you will link up with us and share your favorite recipe. During the fall/winter months we featured recipes for the Crock Pot and now that spring/summer is rapidly approaching, we’re now going to try our hands at recipes that feature grilling! That’s not to say there aren’t “surprise” meals and recipes thrown in there as well! We love your comments. Please let us know if you’ve tried any of our recipes and how they turned out and if you have any tips or tricks of your own that you’d like to share. Because There is Always Time for a Home Cooked Meal

In my house, The Hubs is the “grillmaster.”  When he was growing up in Colorado, his dad (who worked for the gas company) hooked up their grill to some likely illegal contraption on their backyard deck so they could use it all year round.  When we moved into our current home, my husband’s first phone call was to the gas company to come out and install an outdoor line to the shiny new grill my mother bought us as a housewarming gift.   He can cook steaks, ribs and lamb chops to perfection, grill vegetables like no-other and has even mastered the rotisserie to make mouth-watering roasts and whole chickens.

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