BBQ

We just bought a grill. Actually we bought it a couple weeks ago, but we finally assembled it. My husband's all time favorite meal is hamburgers and french fries, so that was the main reason he wanted a grill, but we don't have air conditioning and I can't cook on hot summer days was my main reason. It hasn't been hot summer days yet, but we've already used it several times.

Our first bbq meal was chicken. My MIL always has moist tender bbq food, and her trick is to cook it over high heat to get the blackened grillmarks, and then bring it inside, pour bbq sauce over it, cover with foil, and continue cooking in the oven until cooked through. That way you get the bbq grilled taste, but also the moist, tender meat. However that defeats the can't-cook-on-hot-summer-days purpose of having the grill if you turn the oven on, so we cooked the chicken on high, then put it in a 9x13 covered with barbecue sauce and foil, and left it on the grill with the burner turned off on one side (the side with the pan), and closed the lid. It worked perfectly, except that I kept checking it which lets all the heat out, so it probably took longer than usual. I'll get used to using the grill and won't have that problem.