Lamb rib chops with potatoes

This is a fancy lamb rib chop meal.  Delicious and succulent rib chops are always a hit even though they are petite.  Along with the rib are marinaded potatoes and grilled chicory.

Ingredients:

• Lamb rib chops
• white pepper
• chopped garlic
• balsamic vinegar
• extra virgin olive oil
• fresh thyme
• potatoes
• dijon mustard

Directions:

1. Make the lamb marinade first.  Combine the white pepper, chopped garlic, 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar, and 2/3 cup EVOO and some fresh thyme.
2. Place the lamb chops in the marinade and refrigerate for a couple hours flipping every 1/2 hour.
3. Now make the potato marinade.  Take about 1/4-1/2 cup of dijon mustard and to it add white pepper.  Add a little EVOO and place in the fridge for at least an hour.
4. Start your grill with the coals in the center.  You will mostly be grilling on indirect but this gives you a good direct heat zone as well.
5. First on the grill goes the potatoes, they will take the longest to finish.  Place them on the indirect part of the fire.  Flip them at 15-20 minutes.
6. At the beginning of the 3rd flip of the potatoes, place the chicory on the grill after dousing them with olive oil.  Direct heat.  Also do onions the same way if you want.  3-4 minutes a side.  Then move them to the side.
7. Now is the time for the lamb chops.  3-4 minutes a side on direct.  Then pull off and plate.

Top Sirloin steak with onions

Top sirloin steak with onions.  Had the opportunity to purchase a top sirloin steak on sale.  Go big or go home, it is huge.

Ingredients:

1. Onion
2. Chipotle Tabasco sauce
3. Top sirloin steak
4. Olive oil  
5. Montreal steak rub.

Directions:

1. Cut the onion into 1/2 inch slices and skewer.  
2. Rub onion with olive oil and chipotle tabasco sauce.
3. Place on charcoal over direct.  Do about 2-3 minutes a side on the onions.  Move them to the side if they start to burn.
   
4. Rub the steak with the Montreal steak rub.  Use as much as you desire.
5. Place on grill over direct heat.  About 2-4 minutes a side.
6. Pull off and enjoy.
   Cooked perfectly.

Grilled pizza

So this is grilled pizza.  Most of the grilled pizza use a stone in order to mimic a wood fired pizza oven or a cast iron pan to do the same.  Not this time it is just fire and that pizza.

Ingredients:

• Pizza dough, homemade or prepared.
• Pizza sauce
• tomato slices
• onion
• garlic flakes
• oregano
• olive oil

Directions:

1. Start a charcoal fire about 400°.  Set up the grill for direct.
2. Make a fist size dough and spread about a 1/2 inch thick. Oil both sides and place on a floured side of aluminum foil.
3. Put dough on a oiled grill over direct heat 400° for about 2 minutes and then flip.  
4. Pull off after the second flip has cooked 2 minutes.  
5. Put a thin amount of pizza sauce an then the toppings.  In my case Roma tomato slices, onions, oregano, garlic flakes and mozzarella cheese.
6. Place back on the grill and grill covered for about 2-4 minutes until cheese is melted.
7. Enjoy.

Lamb loin chops

So tonight is lamb loin chops about an inch thick.  Not the biggest cut but a great tasting one.  I find lemon juice to be a great marinade.

Ingredients:

• Lamb loin chops about an inch thick
• Juice of 2 lemons
• fresh tarragon 
• 1 large clove of garlic, chopped
• white rice

Directions:

1. Make the marinade.  Juice the two lemons and add tarragon with chopped garlic.
2. To this add the lamb.  Let marinade for 30-40 minutes flipping half way through.
3. Start about 1/3-1/2 chimney of charcoal.  Once started spread out in center of grill. You want a medium heat.
4. Place lamb over direct coals.  You will want to let it go about 4 minutes a side.
5. Pull off and plate on a bed of rice when done.  A little Guinness Black Lager goes well with this.
   

It should be a little pink to dark red in the middle.  This will have optimum flavor.

Onion bacon cheese bud and steak.

This is a recipe for a onion bacon cheese bud as featured on a youtube bbqpitboys post.  Along with the onion I grilled some sweet potato and a top sirloin steak.  The steak was marinaded in Sweet Baby Rays Steakhouse marinade.  It was more a steak sauce than a marinade in my humble opinion.  Anyways here are the gory details.

Ingredients:

• Top sirloin steak
• Sweet Baby Rays Steakhouse marinade
• Tabasco chipotle sauce
• White onion
• bacon
• cheese (I used goat cheese cause I had it on hand.)
• paprika
• cayenne pepper
• sweet potato

 Directions:

1.  Start with the onions and sweet potato first.  Start your charcoal and set up the grill for indirect grilling.
2. Slice the onion in a grid pattern but not all the way through.  Think Outback Steak House Blooming Onion. 
3. Wrap one or two slices of bacon around the top of the onion.
4. Slice the sweet potato to about 1/2" slices.  Top these with a couple slices of bacon.  Cut to fit.
5. Place these on the grill on indirect and place the lid on the grill.
6. Now is the time to start marinading the meat.  Use the Sweet Baby Ray's to marinade the meat.  For a little heat add some Chipotle tasbasco sauce to the marinade.  Let this go til you have turned the sweet potatoes twice.
7. Put the goat cheese on the onions. 
8. At this point put the steak on direct.  You will want to flip it at the 2 minute mark.  Leave the lid off at this point.  At the end of hte second flip take off and plate.

Lemon garlic pork chops

So this is a marinade I came up with my own.  It is a take on a chicken lemon pepper marinade, but I featured garlic more than the pepper. 

Ingredients:

• Pork rib chops, 1" thick.
• juice of 2 lemons
• garlic cloves, 2 chopped
• onion chopped 1/4 cup
• pepper
• dried basil

Directions:

1. Make the marinade by first juicing 2 lemons.  Then chop 1/4 of a white onion and 2 large cloves of garlic.  Add about 1 tablespoon pepper and basil.  Mix well.
2. Add the marinade to the pork ribs and rotate every 15 minutes.  One hour is ideal for this.
3. Set up your grill with 2 heat zones.
4. Place your chops on the grill on direct to sear them for about a minute or two a side.
5. Once seared put on indirect, use the lid.  They should go for about 4-5 minutes a side.  Then they are done.
6. Plated with brown rice and a salad.  Salad consists of mixed greens, raspberries and lemon juice.

The marinade was a great flavor compliment to the pork.  Not over powering but very nice.  Give it a try.