DISCOVER DELICIOUS AND EASY-TO-PREPARE appetizer recipes for your grill, and complete your meal with perfect sides for any dinner or get-together with friends and family.
Appetizers are small servings of food, usually intended to stir up your appetite. This chapter contains some real crowd-pleasers, including backyard takes on meatballs, various dips and salsas, stuffed mushrooms and numerous interpretations of smoked jalapeño poppers.
Side dishes accompany the main course. When you grill vegetables, the natural sugars in these foods caramelize, creating a new layer of flavor. The following pages contain recipes for grilled lettuce, variations on green beans, vegetable ratatouille and potato dishes, along with backyard classics such as cornbread and barbecue baked beans.
After you try some of these recipes, feel free to experiment a little bit. You can grill most vegetables, and the recipes in this chapter provide lots of seasoning combinations that just might inspire some of your own flavorful ideas.