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Grilled Brats (and Shoes) in Beer

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I try to learn from my mistakes and try not to repeat them, particularly because there are so many new ones out the to make. Friday night I made a real bad mistake that came halfway close to ruining a meal. This blog entry will describe what happened. Hopefully it may help keep someone else from making the same mistake without actually having to go through the whole process. The meal in question was called Grilled Bratwurst in Beer from the COOKS ILLUSTRATED SUMMER GRILLING GUIDE (see blog entry) which has been responsible for some great meals around here in the last month. Bratwurst is a tailgating staple out in the midwest, as I found out in college. I’d d never seen a brat until I moved to Detroit. While I’ve since direct grilled brats like you would a hot dog, until last Friday night I’d never made them in a beer hot tub.
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Grill Refurb Part 1

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No sooner had I posted my blog entry Reinvigorating My Grill and the doorbell rang & I found all button on of the parts for my grill refurb had arrived - early as a matter of fact. That was the good news. The bad news was the 6 burners, which are buried the deepest inside the grill, are backorder for about 1 month. After thinking about it for a while I decided to go ahead and install theses parts. Read More...
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Reinvigorating My Grill

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My gas grill will be 7 years old come this fall and needs some work. My original plan was to replace it with a shiny new Weber model, but now I am going to fix my existing grill. While my final decision was driven as much by economic reality as any other reason, now that I have chosen I am actually quite happy with my choice. This blog will describe some of my decision making process. Read More...
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More Perspective on Aperture

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This is a follow up to my blog entry of few weeks ago on Aperture, Apple’s prosumer photography software, which I am now using in place of iPhoto to manage all of my digital photographs. In the process of moving from iPhoto to Aperture I have learned several important points that might be worth your knowing. This website does combine two of my hobbies: grilling & smoking plus photography. Every once in a while I write a blog about the photography or computer side of things. This entry is one of those times, so a fair warning to you - if you want to read about grilling or smoking, stop right here and use the recently added “Index of Blogs” link found in the masthead above. If you are an Apple Macintosh user looking for a possible alternative to iPhoto, then read on. Read More...
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Cookbook Heads Up

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I picked up this cookbook the other day during a trip to the supermarket and I already have a dozen recipes picked out to make. This great summer supplement is filled with interesting recipes for items that are sometimes hard to make due to the availability of the right ingredients or they are regional in nature or hard to get just right. Sometimes it can be all three. One of the things that I like is this magazine isn’t just a collection of recipes, there is always a story behind the recipe. This story involves working out some of the problems in terms of getting the right ingredients and finding the proper cooking method. Even if I am not interested in a particular recipe there are often helpful sidebars about cooking techniques or the best brand ingredient to use, that still make the recipe a worthwhile read. They also have a few pages of quick tips that are great time or money savers. These tips can be worth the price of that issue alone. Read More...
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