It's Outdoor Cooking Season!


At the lake, the ocean, by the pool, on the deck...all the best outdoor cooking tools so you can be outside while you're cooking and hang out with your friends and family while doing so.  All the links in one place on LTK:    https://liketk.it/59Zmk

Looking for the perfect gift for a lake house or a beach house or really anywhere you tend to host extra people?  Are you looking for a gift for the dad who has everything?   Or a special birthday gift for the cook in your house?   


We have the larger blackstone griddle at our lake house and use it for entertaining multiple families all the time. We cook breakfast 🍳πŸ₯“πŸ₯ž lunch πŸŒ­πŸžπŸ§€and dinner πŸ”πŸŸπŸ₯©πŸšπŸ€πŸ₯¦πŸŒ½on it and absolutely love it. Lots of family members and friends have purchased one after seeing ours in action!  We kicked off Summer by cooking most of our meals outside this past Memorial Day Weekend.  Here are some outdoor kitchen essentials we own and use.  click on highlighted links or pictures below for links. Scroll to the bottom to see some of our favorite meals we like to cook on our griddle! 

When we are at the lake in the spring, summer, fall we do almost all of our cooking outdoors.  Especially if we have friends over.    The added bonus is we get to enjoy the view of the lake while cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner!  We found the key to cooking outside is the blackstone griddle.   I am constantly sharing it with friends, family, renters and other bloggers or VRBO hosts.   Such a great add on for families that like to entertain, for vacation homes, and a gift for people who love to cook and be outside.   

Breakfast usually starts with bacon or sausages, blueberry, chocolate chip and plain pancakes, sometimes biscuits and gravy and often eggs of any kind.  Grilled english muffins and bagels are also a big hit.  I created links below to all our outdoor cooking essentials.  There are two sizes of grills (we have the larger one at the lake where we entertain more). Remember to watch for sales.  They are pricey but worth it!  Great birthday, Christmas or father's day/mother's day gift for the cook in your life!



For lunch we've been known to cook up made to order grilled cheese sandwiches, grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (don't knock it till you try it) and lots of hotdogs & smash burgers.  

 
We cook anything we'd cook inside for dinner out on the griddle or on the grill and the attached burner.   Grilled pineapple to top our burgers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob steamed in the pot, shish ka bobs on the grill, hibachi rice, steak, chicken, street corn.  Our other favorite is Friday night pizzas made on our grill with a grill top pizza oven. You name it we've probably cooked it outside!