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Today we are cooking an easy healthy meal all done on the grill. On the menu is Italian marinated chicken, pasta, bell peppers (green, yellow, red, orange), mushrooms & corn on the cob.

Day Before Cooking

First you will want to take your chicken breasts and put them in a Ziploc bag and cover them with Italian dressing. If you can do this 24 hours before cooking them on the grill. If you do you will get some great tasting and very tender chicken breasts.

Day Of Cooking

Before you start cooking everything on the grill you will need to do some prep.

Bell Peppers, Mushrooms & Corn
Cut the peppers in half and remove the core and seeds from inside each of the halves. You will want to shuck the corn and the mushrooms will not need any cutting.

Once all the veggies are cut you will want to brush them with some oil and then flavor them with salt and pepper. Once this is done you can set them off to the side.

Cooking

1. Start preheating the grill and put water into a pot and start heating it up on your side burner (if you don’t have one then you can cook it like normal inside on the stove).
2. Once the grill is preheated put the chicken on.
3. When the chicken is roughly 10 minutes close to being done put your pasta in the water (should be boiling by now) and put the veggies on the grill.
4. Depending on your grill temperature the veggies will only take 5-10 minutes. Watch them and take them off if they finish before the pasta and chicken is done.
5. Once everything is done take it all off the grill.
6. Slice the bell peppers into smaller strips.
7. Slice the chicken into smaller strips.
8. Slice the Mushrooms into smaller strips.
9. Place the bell peppers, mushrooms and chicken over your pasta and your corn to the side.
10. Enjoy

Today we will be cooking up some prime rib, bacon wrapped asparagus and grilled pineapple. This is the first food that we have cooked that has used a rotisserie. The prime rib cooks up great on a rotisserie. You don’t have to use a rotisserie and if you don’t you will need to manually flip it and cook it at a lower temperature since it will be on one side a lot longer.

Prime Rib

Prime Rib is actually a pretty simple piece of meat to cook. It does not need a marinade or any complicated spices to bring out flavor. When looking for a prime rib to cook make sure it still has the bones attached. This will give the meat a lot more flavor if the bones are not attached when cooking. Before putting the prime rib on the grill add some salt and pepper as seasoning. This is all you need.

Cooking time will depend on how big of a piece of meat you got and how “done” you want your meat. Cooking time is roughly 20 minutes per pound at 350 degrees. You will want to check the internal temperature as it gets close to being done. You want to shoot for about a 140 degree internal temperature. This will give you a medium-rare/medium piece of meat. You don’t want it to be brown inside you want that nice pink middle.

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus has great flavor and a great way to get people to try asparagus if they have never tried it before and it is easy to cook. This is what got me to realize I actually like asparagus. Who knew?

Take your asparagus spear and season if you would like with some olive oil, salt and pepper. Wrap the asparagus in a piece of bacon. Do this for as many as you want to cook. Once done place them on the grill and let cook for roughly 10-12 minutes on medium low heat or until the bacon has reached your desired “doneness”.

Grilled Pineapple

Grilled Pineapple is another simple thing to cook on the grill that comes out looking good and tastes even better. For this you will want a fresh pineapple. Cut the outside off, core it and cut it into roughly 1 inch rings. Place these on a medium-high heat grill. Cook them on each side for 3-5 minutes or until heated through and grill marks appear. As we cooked ours we added honey on some and teriyaki sauce on others as they were cooking. You can experiment with many different flavors here.

For this weeks recipe Friday I will be sharing with you a steak marinade I discovered several years ago. Ever since I tried it I use it on every steak I cook. If you use the salt trick on cheap steak that I posted earlier this week and then marinate them in this marinade overnight you may just never go back to buying an expensive steak again.

Ingredients

• 1/3 C Soy Sauce
• 1/2 C Olive Oil
• 1/3 C Lemon Juice
• 1/4 C Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 1/2 T Garlic Powder
• 3 T Dried Basil
• 1 1/2 T Dried Parsley Flakes
• 1 tsp Pepper
• 1/4 tsp Hot Sauce
• 1 tsp minced garlic

Directions

1. Mix all the above ingredients in a bowl.
2. Pour the mix over your meat and let sit for desired time.

This is a very simple and quick marinade, but has given me some of the best flavor I have ever had from a steak. I have marinated steaks in these from only an hour up to a full 24 hours. The best flavor always came from letting it sit overnight.

Try this marinade out and let me know what you think in the comments below.

Grilling out this weekend? Want a simple side that will leave your guests speechless and make you feel like Chef Gordon Ramsey? Yes you say? Read on…

This grilled onion blossom requires practically no work and turns an onion into a side dish and not an afterthought. I love onions with my steak and I am always looking for creative ways to prepare the onion and that is how I stumbled across this recipe. Now lets get to how you actually make this.

Ingredients

• 1 large sweet onion
• 1 1/2 T butter
• garlic salt to taste
• ground black pepper to taste
• olive oil

Directions

• Preheat your grill to high heat
• Peel the onion and slice it into 6-8 wedges, but leave the base of the onion still intact.
• Pull apart the wedges slightly
• Coat the inside of the onion with the butter, garlic salt and pepper
• Drizzle some olive oil over the onion
• Wrap the onion with aluminum foil
• Place on the grill and cook for 30-45 minutes.

That’s it. Very simple. This is a very inexpensive side to have with your meal when grilling out. It is also a great starting point to create your own flavor. Try some cajun seasoning, or real garlic instead of garlic salt, or seasoned salt instead of the garlic salt. There are a lot of possibilities with this. One of my favorite additions is Worcestershire sauce. Try it out, mix it up and let me know in the comments below how it was.