Tuesday, October 23, 2012

You scream, I scream, we all scream FIRE!

A couple weeks ago Rich was working in Oklahoma and would be getting back late.  I thought it would be nice to have dinner ready when he got back. I spent my lunch hour rounding up meat and veggies at the grocer near my work, hurried home from work, sliced and diced, and seasoned to my heart's content, and skewered all of the above, creating colorful kabobs... I'll admit, they looked delicious.  I also bought corn on the cob, seasoned it, wrapped it in foil, and diced some sweet potatoes, seasoned those, wrapped them in foil, and voila, dinner was ready for the grill!
About that time, Rich walks in... He offered to do the grillin' (it must be a guy thing) so I could finish cleaning up the kitchen.
He put everything on the grill, and would periodically check and turn our dinner and come back inside and visit.... on his last outing to the grill I glance up and see BURLING smoke emerging from the grill and hear a select few swear words coming from outside... I laughed and went back to my dishes...
Rich came in and said, 'Uh.... I charred dinner.'  I didn't believe him, so he made me get my shoes, and sure enough.....


We salvaged a few of the potatoes and a couple bites of the corn, but the rest was beyond well done!  Of course Rich had to tidy up before he would take a picture!  We even ended up having to pressure wash the bricks, they too were charred from the burling smoke!
Rich is normally an amazing chef, so of course after much teasing, we had a great dinner out at a delicious (and one of my new fav places to dine) restaurant,  The Ranch at Las Colinas.... thanks for dinner Rich! ;)

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