cookout

This was an awesome meal:

My food is on the left:  watermelon and grilled asparagus, onion and lemon (cooked in foil).  I would have considered making veggie burgers and potato fries but during the kitchen remodel I'm going with easy food prep and this was easy and really good!

Cookout

Today was our first annual first Packer (football) game of the season cookout.  The cookout was fun even if the game was less so--all the more reason to enjoy a cookout!     Here I am cooking up the food:

That's my Jeff Novick (JN) veggie burger, 3 bratwursts (brats for short) for housemate, 3 grilled corn on the cob (2 for me).   I cut my burger in half and made collard wraps.  To make it seem more classic I added ketchup (no sugar), mustard (no salt), and my "pickles" (cucumber slice soaked in d'angou pear vinegar and dill).   

I also made JN fries, which are the best fries I've ever had, seasoned with my cajun mix, which I got this from a Happy Herbivore cookbook.  I prefer making my own season mixes with no salt and much less hot pepper.   I dipped in ketchup for a treat.  Even though the ketchup has no sugar, it has salt, 70 mg per Tbsp.  I thought that was okay but I can feel it in my fingers.  I think I will make my own next time.  JN gives a recipe for home-made ketchup on his DVD.  Actually he got it from Cathy at StraightUPFood (one of my favorite recipe sites) so you can see it here.  I bet it will taste better than Heinz and it won't have any salt. I would just make a small batch with a quickly cooked apple piece (so no need for blending if apple is cooked) and herbs and vinegar mixed in--should be easy.

Here's my lunch. 

 I saved one of those collard wraps and a corn for dinner, along with butternut squash.   This sure is a fun way to eat!

Cookout!

We had a cookout today!  I'm still enjoying the novelty of this.  I roasted the corn on the grill and it was fabulous.  We shucked it, soaked it in water for about 20 minutes, wrapped it in foil, then put it on the grill with the meat (for others).  It takes about the same time to cook.  I also had a Jeff Novick burger with "ketchup" (chopped tomato and grape), "pickles" (sliced cucumber, d'angou pear vinegar and dill), and no-salt mustard; and Jeff Novick's potato "fries" with a little soy yogurt and "ketchup" (added after I took the picture.  Housemate had a bratwurst and potato salad with her corn.   This was very enjoyable!

I later had a big salad for dinner to get some greens in.