About this season
Boy Meets Grill is a show on the Food Network. This show, hosted by Bobby Flay, features grilling tips for people with any level of experience in the kitchen. It was first aired in 2002. Boy Meets Grill also airs on ETC, Lifestyle Channel in the Philippines and on the Israeli Food Channel. The name is a pun on the archetypical plot element "boy meets girl".
Episodes (5)
1. Asian Inspired
Aired 5 November 2006 • 30 min
Chef Flay uses his grill to prepare a few Asian-influenced dishes with recipes for swordfish skewers with coconut, key lime and green chile sauce, Asian-spiced duck breasts with ginger-chile glaze, brown rice salad with citrus-Thai basil vinaigrette, grilled eggplant with garlic sauce and mint. He tops off the menu with a tamarind cooler.
2. Easy Thanksgiving
Aired 12 November 2006 • 30 min
Chef Flay puts a new spin on the classic Thanksgiving holiday meal with recipes for brined turkey breast with Spanish spice rub and sour orange sauce, sherry vinegar-brown sugar-glazed turkey drumsticks, grilled portobello mushrooms filled with wild rice, and a mulled red wine sangria. Pastry chef Vicki Wells provides cheesecake for dessert.
4. Grilling with Wine
Aired 4 February 2007 • 30 min
Chef Flay visits one of his favorite wine stores, Appellation Wines and Spirits, and selects a few vintage bottles and some key tips on cooking with wine. When he returns to his kitchen, he prepares grilled fig and stilton salad with port-wine vinaigrette, spicy mussels with white wine, and a red-wine marinated stuffed flank steak served with champagne granita.
5. Light and Fresh
Aired 7 January 2007 • 30 min
Bobby Flay selects a few succulent heirloom tomatoes at Upper East Side's Eli's, then returns to his kitchen to grill a mint-marinated grilled shrimp tabbouleh and a fresh mozzarella and stacked heirloom tomato salad. A grilled red snapper is topped with a grapefruit-thyme mojo, and strawberries with ricotta cream and pistachios complete this healthy meal.
8. Holiday Dishes
Aired 13 December 2006 • 30 min
Chef Flay invites a few close friends to his patio for an intimate holiday meal of smoked trout salad with Meyer-lemon dressing, grilled lamb porterhouse with fig-cascabel Sauce, and a side grilled chickpea polenta cakes with chive oil and lemon.