Vacation Grilling

[jdefran]

We taking a trip for New Years with some friends and I get to bring Big Tasty (my wife's name for the 26" kettle). I'm starting this thread to encourage/remind myself to take photos of the grill time I get to enjoy while on vacation.

There are 5 couples, 4 babies (all under 18 months). The planned meals include:

• Fri dinner-burgers and ABTs
• Sat dinner-chicken fajitas
• Sun dinner-ribs (with drip beans) and wings

I'm confident Big Tasty will be large enough for burger and fajita night. For ribs and wings we'll have 3 racks of ribs and 10 lbs of wings. My plan is to start ribs around 10:30-11, cook nekkid till 5:30, rest/finish in oven (depending how close we are), then do wings around perimeter. Supposedly there's a gas grill at the house we're renting so that could be a holding option too.

[hawgheaven]

Twice a year, we go to The Cottages on Indian River Inlet, just south of Rehoboth Beach, DE. My 18.5" kettle always makes the trip with us.



Have a grate thyme, sounds like a blast!

[Travis]

Sounds like it will be a great trip. Looking forward to the pics


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[pbe gummi bear]

Yes, please take pics for us. Have a good trip.

[kettlebb]

4 babies under 18 months! That will be a busy house. Can't wait to see the cook pics.


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[Darko]

Have a great trip. Happy New Year to you and your family.

[jdefran]

4 babies under 18 months! That will be a busy house. Can't wait to see the cook pics.


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Yeah, hopefully it's not too crazy. Ours is 18 months, a couple are 6-8 months, and the youngest 2 months.

[jdefran]

Have a great trip. Happy New Year to you and your family.

Thanks man, happy new year!

[jdefran]

Loaded up and ready to hit the road:


Unfortunately I didn't get pics on Friday due to longer than expected travels, grocery shopping, settling in etc. Initially I was going to do poppers to go with burgers but ran outta time, instead I did a popper burgers. I built the burger with roasted jalapenos, bacon, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and grilled onions.

Saturday we did fajitas:





Sunday was more robust; ribs, wings, drip beans, etc:

[JDann24]

Look like you guys ate well. What did you season the fajitas with?

[jdefran]

Well I wanted do mojo but forgot to get some so I improvised with what we had. I did combo of olive oil, orange juice, lime zest, kosher salt, black pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, cumin, dried oregano and cilantro.
After getting it on the grill I hit it with a light mix of kosher salt, black pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, cumin. I think it turned out better than the mojo would have.

[JDann24]

Well I wanted do mojo but forgot to get some so I improvised with what we had. I did combo of olive oil, orange juice, lime zest, kosher salt, black pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, cumin, dried oregano and cilantro.
After getting it on the grill I hit it with a light mix of kosher salt, black pepper, garlic powder, chili powder, cumin. I think it turned out better than the mojo would have.

Sounds great. Good job with the on the spot improvisation.

[Travis]

@jdefran Looks like it turned out just fine!! Even with all those little ones running around. Probably a smart move. "Ladies, I'll be manning the grill." You had that 26 workin. Great pics, great job!


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[Darko]

Nice work. The food looks great.

[sinisterdonut]

Making me hungry

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