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LA Blogs is at it again, like clockwork. Or maybe it’s calendarwork. Los Angeles Insight - Fire Up the BBQ

I’m alone this weekend and not invited anywhere, so this is an exercise in well, exercising. But hey, it keeps my entry total up!

Labor Day is upon us, thanks to those who put out the effort for last week?s Los Angeles Insight, terrific ideas to fill out this holiday weekend.

Since this is one of the standard BBQ holidays, let?s get to it. The drill is, copy these questions to your blog, complete your answers on your own site and post a link here in the comments so that we can find them.

1. When you do fire up the grill, what do you put on it?
Chicken. Marinated, boneless chicken breasts.

2. Where do you buy your goods (any secret meat markets)?

Usually Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. We go for the hormone free ones, because we know what too many hormones do to me. Sometimes we do turkey sausages, Bristol Farms has a really good selection of turkey and chicken sausages that are wonderfully spicy.

3. Besides your house, where do you/would you BBQ around your area?

No. I like grilling at home.

4. Gas or charcoal?

Gas. Better for the environment. Compact and certainly less cleanup. I like the taste of charcoal (as long as the fire starter has burned off).

5. What is your favorite drink to accompany the grill?

I like water. And gin and tonics.

6. When you bring a side dish, what is it?

Salad is nice. I also like this grill dish that we do where you skewer the baby mozzarella balls on bamboo skewers and alternate it with tomatoes and basil leaves. Then baste it in olive oil with a little salt, pressed garlic and pepper in it. Put on the grill just until the cheese starts getting gooey and pull off and eat immediately. Yummers!

7. If the host burns the main dish, where do you go out to eat instead?

We’d call for delivery I think. Probably Hard Times Pizza.

8. Post BBQ games: dominoes, croquet, bocci or badminton?

Um, we’ve played croquet a few times, though I think usually before. I just got a bocci set that I’m itching to use. Maybe after the next time the lawn is mowed.