Today we bought a barbecue grill. The first thing we saw when we entered the store was a huge green object that looked like a spaceship. I almost ran away in terror but the N cautiously approached it and discovered it was the most expensive grill there, costing $900. That almost made N run away in terror.
Finally, we got a small charcoal barbecue for $39. I’ve been dying to eat some shashlik for years, I can even imagine its aroma. But there is none to be found in this area.
Now we will have a real American July 4, with shashlik, sangria, and World Cup on TV. We also bought a huge American flag to put above all this splendor.
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What is your favorite recipe for this??
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I’ve never made it before so now I’m researching. I will post the recipe and the photos when it’s all done! π
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Enjoy, I suspect my wife loved me for my ability to cook in the bush…woodsmoke and meat, it’s primal ;-D
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Clarissa
We went through the same thing, learning to mix. We bought what was then maybea $20 bucks of a barbecue. Learn that most of the sauces are ketchup and soya sauce. Buy the best, Heinz here, and a low sodium Soya sauce, add honey and dried garlic for poultry and pork, and mustard and oregano for beef, and you’ll be ok. Give your man a chance to use it on hamburgers a few times to feel the heat, your choice on meat, ground chuck is pretty much the best, but add some bread crumbs to hold the juice, use egg yolks but no whites as bonding, or it will be tough. Only use the sauce after it is all but cooked. Unless he burns the hell out of him, it will be better than anything you have ever bought. Enjoy it kid -D
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I’m not using barbecue sauce. I find it really repellent on all levels. I will be marinating the meat.
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“Finally, we got a small charcoal barbecue for $39”
In other words, a grill. I’m kind of a fanatical purist about barbecue which where I’m from refers to meat cooked in the smoke of a wood fire and requires something like this to do right:
If money and space are no object, then there’s always this;
Poland has ome wonderful smoked and/or grilled meats but sadly, nothing I could, in good conscience, call barbecue (which I feel about more or less like you do about szaszΕyk)
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What kind of shashlik will you be making?
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Not pork for sure because I hate pork. Id do lamb but it’s extremely expensive. Good mutton is not available in this area. And chicken shashlik is a joke. So I’m left with beef.
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