Baking on a grill?
It’s a piece of cake, according to Jennifer Plemmons, better known as The Girl that Grills on Instagram.
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“I get the strangest comments about desserts,” said Plemmons, who posts recipes and mouthwatering videos on her Instagram page.
People are surprised to find they can use their grills for foods other than meat.
Plemmons started ramping up her grill game in March 2020 when she was in lockdown and working her stressful law office job at home with a toddler. She and her husband live on land in Appling that has passed through his family for several generations. They farm the land and raise Angus cattle. She said she needed an outlet, and cooking filled that bill for her.
“I’ve been cooking since I was 5,” she said.
Growing up with her grandparents, she learned a lot from them, including cooking and baking with her grandma, Margie. Plemmons said she sees cooking as part of her heritage, and she sees this as a way to pay homage to the cooks and bakers who went before her.
“I’m carrying on their legacy,” she said.
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Her grandmother also instilled in her a love of White Lily Flour. She’s since formed a partnership with that company and several others including Titan Farms and Recteq, whose pellet grill she uses. The pellet grill acts almost like a convection oven, she said. She started experimenting with the grill and developing recipes for it.
Cooking food on a grill gives it an extra flavor.
“Smoke marries so well” with a variety of foods from fruit to the cakes she bakes to the meat, she said.
Plemmons said she’s noticed one thing about the grilling world.
“Barbecue is a man’s world,” said Plemmons, who wants to change that and show her daughter that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
She said she’s also inspired other women to become the grill-masters in the family and has given them instructions along the way. She hopes to create more educational content and tutorials — a basic grilling school as it were — in the future to help others on their grilling journey. She also wants to show people they don’t have to have a fancy grill to get a good grilling experience.
To learn more about Plemmons, visit thegirlthatgrills.com or @thegirlthatgrills on Instagram.
Charmain Z. Brackett is the Features Editor for The Augusta Press. Reach her at charmain@theaugustapress.com.
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