What's for Dinner, Mon., July 24, 2023

[2naSalit]

7. Foil wrap is great...

I really got interested in it about five years ago when I had the occasion to be on site with a very skilled chef for an entire summer, foil wrapped all kinds of things was one of his summer specialties. He cooked on the grill most of the time when it came to dinner, there was a screened porch dining room in the shade, it was lovely, the food was elegant.

Now I do a Sunday dinner with my hiking pal and he has a grill and a smoker, we both just got the same model of a nice counter top convection oven so we have many options, we always cook at his house. He likes to cook veggies in foil wrap too so I can still enjoy some of my favorites from the summer of fine food.

The convection oven is great for corn on the cob, takes a few minutes and you can get charred ends if you want them. I eat a lot more of it now. Yesterday I convinced him that firing up the grill just for ContheC and it could be done by the time the grill was ready. It was +98F, he was on his way to go get going on that when the heat and my words hit him simultaneously, he comically came right back in and asked, "how many minutes?" We cooked it in the convection oven and have a cold plate of veggies, cheese and sourdough pieces with it. We just both wanted corn on the cob.