The theme in my house is “last licks of summer,” both on the grill and patchkeh’ing with all kinds of ingredients from the pantry. If you like salty-sweet, you’ll like this!
On nights when it wasn’t too windy (yes, even in the summer; we were four flights up), we would sit outside long after supper and I would plan my pop-up restaurant that I wasn’t really serious about at all.
In our next home, which we were renting, I wasn’t ready to invest in serious furniture that might not fit in a different layout of some future home down the line, but there was one thing I knew I’d always be able to make room for — a grill. And it was the first thing we bought after the basics.
Grilling comes along with a domesticated feeling. It’s practically kitchen magic; creating delicious food that is so fast and easy to prepare, and that leaves everyone satisfied. It also seems to come with a slo-mo button. Everyone can suddenly find an extra few minutes to linger at the outdoor dinner table.
That is why it’s obviously grill before built-ins. Barbecue nights have set a tone for us all summer long. And we need to hold onto that tone and pace. We need the magic of summer and the lazy grill nights to tide us over through dark-at-4 p.m. homework nights, with PTA to run to when it’s snowing outside, and we just want to be on the back porch, savoring the last licks of grilling this season.
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