If you don't like cute mice, don't watch this video

About three weeks ago we opened our grill to find a nest of three newly born baby mine and their mama.  Being decidedly prone to the preservation of cute furry animals, we researched and found that baby mice wean in three weeks.  Thus it was decided that we would put the cover on the grill for three weeks and let the babies grow up as they are want to do.  Today was the three week point, so we cracked open the grill to see who was still at home.  Turns out there were two mice there.  The first one fairly flew out of the grill when exposed to us and the other, well.... reacted differently.  Truly, we fail at mouse wrangling.

From One Murloc Productions: At least I got Chicken! - or how to BBQ your bird

Grrr... Brian snuck in a non-Jo-approved transition on this video.  My bad video production sense is tingling >:-[ Beware the pinwheel of death!

Ten on Tuesday: 10 Favorite Cookout Foods

1) Cucumber Salad - my version of what they serve at Tennessee's and Firefly's.  They key lies in the rice wine vinegar.

2) Brian's burger flavor of the moment - whatever he comes up with is always outstanding.  Last week we had burgers with fresh herbs, chipotle in adobo and I believe some bbq sauce for good measure.  Yummy!

3) Roasted baby red potatoes - slathered in fresh dill, olive oil, kosher salt and left on the grill to crisp up.

4) Grilled meatloaf - best meatloaf ever!

5) Cheddarwurst - a pork and beef sausage that has bit of cheddar cheese in it.  Excellent on your run of the mill hot dog bun and over the top good with kraut or spicy mustard.

6) Grilled pineapple rings - these are are best on top of vanilla bean ice cream.

7) Ice cream sandwiches made with home made chocolate chip cookies - had these at a friend's cookout recently and they were amazing.  I happened to stumble on one filled with coffee ice cream.  It was divine!

8) Pasta salad - I have a pretty darn good recipe for this now, with plenty of fresh veggies for crunch.

9) Watermelon wedges - enough said.

10) Cole slaw - great on the side and even better when used as a burger topping!