Healthy Tips and Tricks – Grill Your Veggies!
This is one of our favorite things to do for dinner.
We grill up some fantastic steaks or chicken.
Then we do this…
Then for a side dish, we add something like this.
Cut up whatever Farmer Market finds I’ve picked up or we scrounge around in our vegetable drawer and come up with new and delicious combinations of vegetables. Tonight we had spring onion bulbs, fresh garlic cloves, broccoli and zucchini chunks. Toss them in a bowl first with some extra virgin olive oil, your favorite herbs, and salt and pepper. Tonight I used fresh rosemary.
The smoke of the grill imparts the vegetables with delicious flavor and you get by with very little fat.
I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything when we do this.
You can get a grill basket like this at your favorite kitchen store usually or I believe Pampered Chef carries one very similar. Mine came from Williams-Sonoma and was a present from our daughter Lyndsay and her husband.
Here are some combinations that we like:
Red peppers, red onion chunks, mushroom caps, asparagus
Onion chunks, zucchini chunks, red potatoes chunks (parboil these for about 8 minutes first)
Play around with your own combinations and come back and let me know what you did!
Follow Me!
Dishin & Dishes!
Roasted Root Vegetables
Butternut Squash Bruschetta!
Watch Me Cook on Rise & Shine!
Cranberry Walnut Brie En Croute
Pasta Carbonara Casarecce
posted by Baloney on June 18, 2011
My favorite is to grill asparagus.
posted by dishinanddishes on June 19, 2011
Baloney – me too! SO good!
posted by Mrs. Puma on June 19, 2011
Hi Katie, thanks for commenting (and reading) my Forward Foods blog post! I would love to come out and eat with all you Okie food bloggers, but unfortunately my husband & I live in Miami, FL. We were just on vacation back home to OK visiting family when we stopped into the OKC FF store (my husband used to work at the Norman one, but we hadn’t been to the OKC one). Thanks for the invite though!