Tonight was a nice night – after Cleo’s class, we pretty much just ended up hanging out around the house for the rest of the afternoon and evening, playing some Mario Galaxy and then eventually other random games on the Wii and grilling out for dinner.
We ended up trying chicken and corn on the cob this time, which I figured is about a half-step up from just your traditional hamburgers and hotdogs, and surprisingly they actually ended up turning out pretty good! I was a little worried that everything would either be raw on the inside or charred to a crisp … especially considering that I had to take all of the chicken back out to the grill after going to take my first “test bite” and noticing that it was still uncooked inside! But the chicken was still very much moist and had a great flavor, and the corn was nice and crunchy, and more importantly not scorched, too!
So I want to do more, but I’m not really sure where to go from here. Honestly I didn’t even know how to do these ones until merely minutes before throwing them on the grill! I had actually looked up how to do the corn while it was Sara’s turn in Mario, and didn’t realize until some random phone surfing while waiting by the grill that chicken actually takes a lot longer than hamburgers and hotdogs, but all in all I was pretty proud with the way that everything turned out. And as a bonus, later after dinner I ended up running to the store to get things for s’mores at the last minute because my sister-in-law shockingly had never had an honest-to-goodness s’more, and boy, did those end up hitting the spot in so many both delicious and nostalgic ways combined…
Anyways, I feel a sort of obligation to grill out as much as humanly possible this summer because of our awesome, new digs, as if to say that there’s a specific amount of grilling XP that will make me worthy of such a magnificently humongous patio! Sara wants our next grilling adventure to be steak because she’s a bit of a steak fan, which admittedly I’m a little nervous about simply because it seems like it would be a lot easier to ruin a nice steak than it might be a hunk of chicken breast or something. I don’t know.
I can only hope that the Internet will serve me well once again like it has in the past. I’ve already begun my research and so far it looks promising, however consider this an open call as well if anyone out there happens to have any tips or tricks or surefire way to make awesome steaks out on the old grill! 31 years in, I’m just now starting to reclaim my manhood by way of grill mastery, and I can use all the help that I can get…