Fire up the grill

I love that more fresh veggies are becoming available as the weather warms up. I also love how we have had (past term as now its COLD) nice sunny 80-90 degree weather. Perfect for grilling! Yes you can bbq with vegetables. Yes it can be delicious. While my family was grilling pork chops, I was in the kitchen preparing my veggies. For this grilling occasion I made myself a portobello mushroom and grilled some zucchini and yellow squash for all of us.

To prep the zucchini and squash I sliced them into rings, you dont want it too thin because then they wont grill well.

After they were sliced I drizzled them with olive oil then added some fresh cracked black pepper and used some italian seasoning - obviously anyway you want to season them would be good. 

Then I got my mushroom ready. I kept it whole, drizzled with a tad of olive oil and sprinkled some turkish bbq spices on it. I have no idea how long spices last, but I bought this at the spice bazaar in Istanbul. 

Once everything was ready I plated them up and took them down to the grill. The mushroom and the zucchini/squash only takes a few minutes on each side. 

I love the grill marks on the squash. I like to grill my mushroom gill side down first, because I find it easier to tell when its done by looking at the gills.