Making to Move to a Private Blog...

We're going to be moving to a private blog. I know we have some followers out there, so please email me if you want to be invited to continue to follow our blog. We will be making the change around the middle of this month, so let me know in the next couple weeks if you want to keep up to date on MEGANDAVE's happenings!!!

Dave's Mad Barbeque Skills

Dave is a barbeque master. While we were dating, Dave always

seemed to be the one barbequeing for the family events at his house: Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day... You name it and if Dave was there he was usually involved in grilling chicken or hamburgers. Since Dave and I moved away from family, though, we haven't really barbequed much worth mentioning. Our small barbeque that I got for Dave's birthday shortly after we were married simply sat in our storage room, sad, alone, and very dusty. It had been used every now and then, but not here in Kansas.

Then, on the Fourth of July, Dave and I finally vowed to have our own barbeque extravaganza. Dave really coordinated all of it. He picked out the foods we would have, the type of meat we would barbeque, and even picked out a marinade recipe. In case you are wondering, our barbeque consisted of chicken, grapes, pasta salad, chips, and rootbeer. So, on the Fourth of July we went to the grocery store (together, even better) and got all of the ingredients for our marinade. When we asked the Wal-Mart salesperson where the "liquid smoke flavoring" was, she kind of gave us a weird look like "I didn't even know they made that stuff," but showed us to the aisle full of barbeque condiments where we found one of the last two bottles of hickory flavored smoke (I'm not making this up; I have no idea what goes into that stuff...It's definitely not something that any organic granola is going to be purchasing...). When we got home, Dave told me what to put in the marinade and we mixed it all together and came up with a great and yummy marinade. Then Dave broke out our barbeque...

Looking at this picture, I realize that I really need to get Dave a bigger barbeque. We've talked about it for a long time, but we just haven't made the plunge. While this barbeque has something like 250 square inches of grilling space, only about 75 to 100 of those inches are usable (the heating element doesn't reach to the rest; just remember that I didn't have much money to work with when I got this for him...). Dave made the best of it, though, and cooked the yummiest barbeque chicken I've had in a long time. If any of you decide you want to come visit us this summer (or fall; it's decent here through November), you'll have to make sure to ask Dave to make his Hot Man Chicken for you.