Barbeque

Fire up the grill! Grilling season starts now.

To prepare for a summer of BBQs, we're making our own seasoning blends and marinades so we're always ready for grilling farm fresh veggies, sustainable seafood, or a grass-fed steak.

Why make your own?

Store-bought grill seasoning and marinades can be full of excess salt, sugar and questionable additives. To figure out how to make our own, we asked Tiffany from the blog Don’t Waste the Crumbs to help us out! Tiffany is all about preparing real, unprocessed food in affordable ways. She says, “If you use any store-bought rubs or seasoning blends, chances are you’re serving MSG for dinner.” Start your grilling season off right with her recipe for Homemade Montreal Steak Seasoning.

Recipe

In Tiffany's kitchen you could say that Montreal Steak Seasoning is the secret sauce. "We put it on steaks, but we also put it on potatoes, asparagus, broccoli, carrots… pretty much any vegetable we can get our hands on!" Whip up the following blend and store it in airtight glass cubes to use all season long. 

Homemade Montreal Steak Seasoning Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 tsp coarse salt
• 1 Tbsp cracked pepper
• 1 Tbsp onion flakes
• ½ Tbsp crushed red pepper
• ½ Tbsp thyme
• ½ Tbsp rosemary
• ½ Tbsp coriander seed
• ½ Tbsp dill
• 1 tsp garlic flakes Instructions

Directions

Combine ingredients in a glass jar and shake well to combine. If seasonings are whole, process in a blender or food processor so that they're still large, but not whole.

Visit Don't Waste the Crumbs for the recipe for Montreal Chicken Seasoning.

How to Turn Seasoning into a Rub

Turn any seasoning into a rub by adding either brown sugar or a tablespoon of olive oil. The molasses in brown sugar adds moistness and caramelizes the meat as it cooks. When working with a rub remember to 1) lay it on thick and 2) let it marinate for several hours.

How to Turn Seasoning into a Marinade

For homemade marinade simply add 1/3 – 1/2 cup of oil and a bit of vinegar. Like rubs, the key to marinades is time—at least an hour, but the longer the better!

"I like this marinade bottle from MightyNest because it has suggestions for a variety of oils and vinegar/acid right on the bottle!" - Tiffany