Sunday Evening Cookout

I wasn't prepared to have BBQ in the evening but the weather was nice so I just went to the supermarket to buy some ingredients to have a quick cookout.

BBQ Whole Chicken

Ingredients:-

• One small whole chicken;
• Some sprigs of sage;
• One lemon;
• A few cloves of garlic;
• Olive oil, salt and pepper.

Procedure:-

• Wash and remove extra fat from chicken. Dry with paper towel. Put chicken into a big glass bowl;
• Roughly cut up the sage, put some underneath the chicken skin if preferred, put some inside the chicken cavity;
• Cut lemon in half, squeeze juice onto chicken. Put left over lemon halves in chicken cavity (or put some slices underneath chicken skin if preferred);
• Remove the rough ends of the garlic cloves, give a light smash with back of your knife. Put them inside chicken cavity. Don't worry take out the rough skin of the garlic (I am going for a rustic look here);
• Coat chicken with olive oil, salt and pepper with tender loving care;
• Let it seat for an hour before grilling.

Squash with Dill Weed

Ingredients:-

• A couple of squash;
• Few cloves of garlic;
• Some dried dill weed;
• One lemon;
• Olive oil, salt and pepper;
• Aluminium foil to make pouch for steaming on the grill.
  

Procedure:-

• Cut squash in 3 sections, then cut them up length wise in sticks, keep them in equal size. Not that you want to show off your cutting skills but equal size allows them to cook through at the same time;
• Cut the hard ends of the garlic out, lightly smash cloves with back of your knife, don't worry about removing the rough skin;
• Sprinkle salt and pepper, dill weed and olive oil and lemon juice (or sprinkle fresh lemon juice when serving);
• Put everything into a self made aluminum pouch to steam in the grill.

(Note: the squash looks much better if you saute this dish on a pan instead of steaming it with an aluminum pouch as the green discolors when steaming inside the pouch.)

Grilled Shrimps

Ingredients:-

• A handful of shrimps (head or headless);
• A bunch of cilantro;
• One lemon;
• Olive oil, salt and pepper.

Procedure:-

• Clean and devein shrimps, remove the legs if preferred;
• Roughly chopped up the cilandro;
• Put shrimps in a bowl, mix in cilandro, add olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper, let it sit for 30 minutes or an hour before grilling.
  

Grilled Salmon Steak


Ingredients:-

• Fresh Salmon Steak;
• One lemon;
• Olive oil, salt and pepper to taste.

Procedure:-

• Clean salmon, and remove bones if preferred, dry with paper towel;
• Season with salt and pepper and coat with olive oil;
• Cut a few lemon slices to grill for garnishing, sprinkle lemon juice when serving.

[photography note: pictures taken with a Canon G3, manual macro focusing or something]