I know that the kettle is placed on the pedestal around these parts - and justifiably so. If I were forced to live with only one grill, it would be a kettle. Well... maybe a Smokey Mountain.
But tonight SWMBO was stopping at the gym after work to run her 4 miles and then had a spa appointment to boot. I'd like to make something nice for St. Valentine's Day and tomorrow we have a club meeting so there is no time them. And besides, with today being Ash Wednesday, we needed something meatless.
I pulled some salmon fillets out of the freezer and thawed them. To go with that I sliced a couple small potatoes in half (those fake Yukon gold ones) and divided a head of broccoli by splitting each floret down the stalk. Just before I expected her home I fired the grill up to season it since baking my Lodge Sportsman's grill at 600° for half an hour had pretty much removed all seasoning from the CI grate. Just as I was applying some peanut oil, she came home so I put the spuds on. They'll take the longest. When they were ready to flip, I put the broccoli and salmon on. Spuds and broccoli got salt and spuds got pepper too. I put some Chesapeake Bay seasoning (fake Old Bay?) on the salmon and all got a liberal squirt of peanut oil.
Broccoli was done first so I put that in a closed Pyrex casserole and set it on top of the lid. That's my poor man's warmer and something else the kettle doesn't do. A few minutes later the spuds and salmon were done and they went into the casserole and inside to the table.
Dinner was a thing of beauty. The potatoes, broccoli and salmon all had nice grill marks. Add a green salad and a glass (or two) of Pinot Grigio and we had a great dinner! Apologies for no pictures as it was late and we were hungry.
Yeah... it would have been better cooked over charcoal with a touch of cherry wood smoke, but the lack of a fixed schedule favored a gas grill that can heat up in a couple minutes. And it was still far better than the same food cooked inside in the kitchen.
Happy St. Valentine's Day!