grill out your favorite meats? I've pretty much got down the art of hamburgers, hot dogs and steaks but how about chicken and pork chops? I've tried chicken and I always end of overcooking it because it takes so long for it to get done. Is there a secret to cooking out chicken? 
What is the best thing to use to marinate chicken and pork chops? Any help would be so greatly appreciated. I absolutely love cooking out. It would be so nice if the food tasted really good 
Pork chops are as simple as cooking the other meats. Be careful though, if it's a thin cut, it's going to get done in a jiffy. Chicken is a little more difficult because of the thickness of the cut. Make sure you don't have flame on your coals when you do chicken. Chicken needs for the coals to be a little less hot. I also make sure to cook the chicken with the lid down.
I use Dales Seasoning on everything! Another good marinade involves soy sauce, vinegar and sugar. Something delicious I learned from a restaurant in Charleston is to get a melted butter, sugar mix and put it on steak toward the end when it's getting brown. The sugar will glaze and capture the juices in the steak. It's wonderful.
Oh my, that steak does sound WONDERFUL. I will certainly be trying that mixture on that. Thanks so much for your help. I'll also try cooking the chicken like you suggested. It's so aggravating because everytime I try to do chicken, it comes out dry and tough. I wonder if cutting the breast into strips would make it easier? Oh my mouth is watering just thinking of all this food
Because where we live has little "dead cold winter" weather, I average cooking on my grill 4 nights per week, year-round. If it's not below freezing (and sometimes even when it is), I'm firing up the grill! The only time I use charcoal, though, is when we're camping during the summer; at home, it's a quick, efficient, even-cooking gas grill. Benefits are many, including no adding fats (as in frying) and, big in my mind, NO PAN TO SCRUB!
The best advice I can give you is to try to cook meats without bones. We eat a lot of chicken, but it's always boneless, skinless chicken breasts. It's healthier (lower fat), and there's no issue with underdone chicken parts. They're great slathered in barbeque sauce. I also marinate them in low-fat Italian salad dressing, drain, and then sprinkle with lemon pepper. Also, this homemade rub is fabulous!!
1 tsp. granulated onion (I use dried onion and pound it inside a folded paper towel with a meat mallet to get granulated)
1 tsp. garlic powder
3/4 tsp. coarse salt
1/2 tsp. chili powder
1/2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
Lightly brush or spray the chicken breasts with extra-virgin olive oil, then season with rub, pressing the spices into the meat. Grill over medium heat. If you use 8-oz. chicken breasts, they'll cook in 8-10 minutes.
Don't overlook cooking seafood on your grill, either. One of my family's favorite meals is marinated, skewered shrimp. I buy large, frozen raw shrimp at Costco; they're already peeled but have the tails on, so almost no work to prepare them. 
Also, try fresh salmon fillets. I slice the salmon into serving portions, lightly spray with oil, season with garlic and basil, and onto the grid it goes. It holds together quite well, no special "fish basket" required.
Pork chops are another big favorite; I generally just sprinkle Lowry's seasoned salt on them. Again, boneless, and I cut my own from a boneless pork loin about 3/4" thick.
Marinated flank steak works great on the grill, along with a variety of kabobs.
Our little public library has a whole shelf full of cookbooks featuring recipes for grilling, so you may want to peruse what your library has to offer. The Weber grill company has recipes online, too, and there are a couple of huge recipe sites available: cooks.com and allrecipes.com.
Enjoy! 
One of my favorite things is to core a vidalia onion, pack the hole with garlic, beef boulion and butter, wrap it in buttered tin foil and let that baby cook. It's delicious. We grill a lot as well because the heat stays outside and cleanup is a minimum. The more you do the chicken, the more you will know when it's right. I even grill roasts.
I dont eat meat but love to grill veggies. I just take the cheapest most vinagry italian dressing i can find and marinate zuchinni and potatoes that have been cut into 1/4 inch slices. Let them sit for about 30mins. Then i grill them up. Yummm
Also potobella mushrooms are amazing on the grill and thick sliced tomatoes.
One of the things we like to do with chicken is to mariande it in ranch dressing with cut up chives. You can also do italian dressing. They are both really good cut in chunks and added to salad.
For pork chops, we always do the thicker pork chops and will just put pepper and Worcestershire sauce on them before cooking.
I agree that veggies are good on the grill as well. We will cut up zucchini and yellow squash, brush with olive oil, salt and add an herb like basil or rosemary or what ever one(s) you like. I'll also make foil packets for corn and put a little butter and salt on the, close up the foil and toss that on the grill for 15-20 mins.
I can't help you with the cooking part since I let someone do that, but I've done the prep for them many of times.
does anyone ever grill fruit? I always mean to try it but never have. I think it would be YUMMY over some vanilla ice cream...
We love to do fresh pineapple chunks stuck on skewers on the grill, and also peach halves. Yummy!
I made a really good chicken on the grill once.
Now this is from the top of my head, so I know I'll miss something
I took mayonaise (yes mayo) and chives (??) and some other seasonings and coated the boneless skinless chicken breasts in the sauce while grilling. It made the moistest ( 
is that a word) chicken breasts ever! I then served it with couscous and fresh fruit on the side- one of my best dinners.
My husband likes to grill chicken with lemon pepper seasoning and blacken it sort of and then we cut it up and place it on top of a salad.
We'll grill out in the winter too up here in WI! I've also grilled out in the rain, that requires some ingenuity if it's pouring out.
We have a gas grill as well, much easier to clean up, and I don't have to wait for my coals to heat up.
I always boil my chicken 1st and then put on grill with seasoning or bbq sauce. I found that this helps to keep it moist and juicy.
I haven't grilled fruit but love to grill veggies esp corn on the cob. Yummy!
I LOVEEEEEEE to grill out too. I wish I could do the roast on a grill. A friend does it, but they use to cook for a living at a fancy restaurant. I like to use anything from southern spicy rubs, BBQ Pork seasoning, and the basics. Zucchini and summer squash are the norm here also. I slice them either lengthwise or in cubes and grill or sautee. Sometimes I just Season Salt and Pepper them and other times Soy Sauce is wonderful on them. Don't forget mushrooms and onions. I fry green tomatoes, but I wonder if I could grill them (like the movie, YUM.).
I am not a big fan of well done meat, so I usually have a high heat and let my steaks sit a while to continue cooking without burning it. Kabobs are also a high heat to keep everything else from burning.
Does anyone make any desserts on the grill? Once in a while I wrap a banana in foil, slice it down the center and add a few chocolate chips and marshmallows. Only a few minutes on the grill and it reminds me of a banana split. This is suppose to be a campfire treat.
For fish, we love shark and tuna steaks on the grill.
Everyone has great ideas! Keep them coming!
OH wow, thanks sooo much everyone. I didn't even know that I had any more replies. I wasn't notified for some reason. Anyway, everyone's suggestions sound absolutely wonderful. I have to admit, I've never tried cooking out fruit. That could be real interesting. Can't wait to fire up that grill. Thanks again, everyone!!!!!
Im not real fond of grilled fruit - I'm a fruit purist. It should be eaten the way God prepped it and that's about it. Vegetables on the other hand - yum. If we have the coals hot and I know there's rain coming on bad wx on the way, I will go ahead and cook the next night's meal and put it in the fridge so that it will have the grilled flavor.
Dordee - do you pull the shucks down and put butter or anything on the corn and then pull the husks up or just put them on the grill as is? I've been wanting to try corn out on the grill. I've also heard someone say something about soaking the corn first? Not really sure what that was about.
When I grill boneless/skinless chicken breast on the grill I first pound the breast with the smooth side of the cleaver while they are in between some saran wrap. I do this so the chicken has the same thickness throughout. If you put it on the grill as is then you have to cook it longer to compensate for the thick part. I then marinate it for a few hours in a 50/50 mix of Italian dressing and red wine vinaigrette. One way I check to see if the chicken is getting done is poke the top with my finger. Raw chicken will feel mushy. The less give the more it's cooked and of course the harder it is the more cooked/overcooked it is, lol. Make sure to let them cool down a little before cutting into them.
We always but Lawry's Marinades in the bottle. It's easy and so good.
I always use boneless, skinless chicken breast and cook them slow.
Also we buy a big pork loin at Sams, or Costco and cut it into thick peices ourselves.
You can also marinade meats and then freeze them so when you defrost them they are ready to go on the grill.
I buy the McCormick grill mates powder packets of marinade. I love the basil and tomato one. They have a couple different flavors. I use other marinades too. But these are my favorites. I cook out on the grill all year too. So I try and find different ways to kick it up a notch.
I also do what msladybug does. I freeze the meat with the marinade.
I grill corn on the cob. Just peel the corn and take off all of the silks that you can. rinse under cold water and shake dry the best you can. Foil wrap them up and grill for 15 minutes, turning every few minutes. Then take some whipped up butter that is fluffy and add in some chopped up parsley and add some chopped fine (or grated) asiago or parmesian cheese. Mix it all together and then slather on the grilled corn, make sure to have the corn in a dish though because the butter will melt everywhere. It's delishious!!!!
does anyone ever grill fruit? I always mean to try it but never have. I think it would be YUMMY over some vanilla ice cream...
::my mouth is wattering::
I grilled some peaches last year. I cut them in 1/2 & left the skins on. Near the very end I put about 1/2 tble sugar on the opened part of the fruit & let it carmelize. It was soooooooo wonderful.
Steaks are my favorite meat on the grill. I marinate them in Terriki sauce Yum. Now I am hungry 
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