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Born to Grill:

I am Not a Chef

I had to look up the word "marinade" when I started writing this. At that point, I thought it would be a good idea to find some likely looking recipes, try them out, and report on the results.

Then I decided to stop kidding myself. I like to grill, and I'm pretty good at starting with frozen meat and walking away with tasty, nutritious hamburgers, steaks, and chicken.

But away from the grill, I am not so much unwilling to prepare food, as inept. In the early days of our marriage, I burned the popcorn. That event has, to this day, encouraged my wife to keep a safe distance between me and kitchen appliances.

So, you won't find any recipes for fancy dishes here. You know the sort of thing I'm talking about: something with a name like Mallard au Marinade de Tofu a la Grille.

I don't even use an old-fashioned charcoal grill. Taking care of one of those things would make grilling too much work to be fun, for me at any rate.

An Easy Griller's way of grilling is so easy, and so satisfying, that most weekends see me out at the grill around noon. Sometimes my wife lets me grill for the evening meal, too.

I only skip my grill time when work or family schedules call me far from my back yard briquettes.

Or sometimes my wife insists that a hailstorm or blizzard is too intense to allow outdoor activities: even one as rewarding as grilling lunch. Far be it from me to question her judgment in this matter. Years of association have taught me that she often understands the benefit/risk aspects of situations like this better than I do.

Besides, I know that she likes the results of my grilling too much to miss them for any trivial reason.

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