Archive for July 11th, 2010
Barbecued foods can be Healthy
Time Magazine had a great article on 7/5/10 about how great and healthy barbecues can be. The big flag was self evident and that was to avoid processed meats like hot dogs and other processed sausages full of nitrates and other goodies.
With fresh ground hamburger and great meat cuts of all kinds avialable at your grocery stores, you can enjoy healthy meats with great taste of charcoal or hard wood flavors. The fats burn off and as long as you don’t overcook the meat there is no real worry about the “carcinogens” of the black proteins formed by burning or over charring the meat. There is absolutely no health reason to overcook quality inspected, fresh meats (whether beef, chicken, pork, or lamb). Don’t pierce the meat but turn it with thongs and spatulas from your bbq tools and therefore preserve the delicious juices.
Also cooking veggies on the barbecue bring a whole new world of flavor to vegetables. Fish and other seafoods are great on the Barbie as well.
Just fire up the barbecue, pull out your barbecue tools and cook away.