Grilling adventures...

I totally forgot to post about my grilling fun over the last week. (I need to get it in before classes and work start again!)

The flank steak with cilantro almond pesto (click to see the recipe!) was stellar. I made the pesto earlier in the day and wasn't wild about it when I tasted it, but once it was actually on the steak, it was really good. I'd never had flank steak before, and I'll definitely be buying it again. I've already used the leftovers in a salad one day and in a wrap another. And yes, I still have three servings left in the freezer. Why can't stores sell steak in increments of less than a pound?

The beer can chicken was pretty much a disaster. I discovered that the lid wouldn't fit on the grill with the chicken standing upright, so I had to do some quick thinking and decided to just put a peach inside and grill it that way. I checked the temperature before I took it off the grill, and the thermometer read 180 like it should. I let the chicken sit for ten minutes while I grilled some veggies (asparagus and portabella mushrooms--yum!), and then cut it open. I discovered, however, when I went to portion out the leftovers that it was nowhere near cooked when I got past the first few slices. The pieces I had already eaten were cooked through, but I had to toss the whole rest of the bird because, ew. This was my third failed attempt at cooking a whole chicken (the other two were in the oven), so I think I'm done with that particular entree.