It's Not Grilled But Then Again The Outdoor Kitchen is Froze Up!

Tropic-Al's: Almost Surfside Dining

Happy New Year BBQ nuts! Right now it is 12* outside and the deck is frozen which means no BBQing today. But I have to make something for the church soup and sandwich social next Sunday.

Just right for football playoff time and a winter lunch are chowders. I don't think it matters what kind of chowder. Just the sound chowder conjurs up thoughts of warm soup sipped slowly enjoyed with friends over crusty bread and good talk.

Since we do not like to go to great lengths on Sunday, other than to and from church then the couch for football, this chowder will be an easy one.

So here we go with : Tropic-Al's Corn Chowder with Chiles and Spicy Sausage

For four servings: 1/4 pound spicy sausage with patty form or links. Break the links up and remove the casing. Ground is better since it must look like ground hamburger to work well.

11 oz can of corn (south of the border style) Usually mixed with some red peppers hot or not red will make the corn look south of the border-ish.

3 cups of good chicken broth. I find most broths are to laden with salt so choose a low sodium one if you desire.

Now for the easy part: place the sausage in a skillet and cook to break up the chunks and stir around until there is no pink left at all in the meat. Five minutes should be plenty for four servings.

Then the hard part is adding the corn and broth! Simmer this undeniably difficult recipe for 5-10 minutes to warm through. Serve warm.

Now here is where I would be tempted to add some garlic, fresh parsley, thyme and oregano to the simmer. Go ahead there is no coals waiting to ash over so load up the pot with good stuff nice sliced tomatoes.

On the side serve up crusty bread or nacho chips or tortillas.


Tropic-Al's: A Banana Republic in The Catskills

Snowed and Iced in for Xmas

Tropic-Al's: Almost Surfside Dining

It seems just as I get snowed n each winter I miss the grill most. Now mind you I grill/bbq year round. But when we receive threes storms in four days the grill gets a little more than covered by snow. It disappears.

The hot tub, my redneck kitchen and both of my grills are buried under four feet of white sugar like stuff called neige en francais and snow to the rest of us rednecks.

But anyway if you are lurking around BBQ land looking for something to do check out our publications on the left hand side bar. We have every topic for island living under the sun.

Tropic-Al


Tropic-Al's: A Banana Republic in The Catskills

A perfect Ssaturday BBQ

Tropic AL Hosted some landlubbers Saturday afternoon to a beautiful fall lunch. The feature was spaghetti squash grilled to perfection over a Weber Summit. After the outer shell was charred to perfection the stringy squash was removed and placed in a glass bowl to keep warm.

Meanwhile some sweet turkey sausage was being grilled in beer inside a ceramic dish.

Pineapple slices were alongside the beer soaked sausage getting their share of the heat.

After the pineapple was done sliced chicken breast was placed on the fire next to the sausage.

When everything was done grilling it was tossed along the stringy spaghetti squash and drizzled with a delicious sauce of maple syrup, soy sauce, lemon juice and garlic.

And they say pirates lead a tough life!

Tropic-Al's: A Banana Republic in The Catskills