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Summer is the perfect time to get outside and start grilling for your friends and your family. Today I'm going to show you how to prepare some easy vegetable kabobs. These are perfect for first time grillers. So I'm going to start you off by showing you how to make vegetable kabobs for the grill. This is something so easy and fun, the family can get involved with it. I have some beautiful vegetables. I have zucchini, red peppers, sweet onions, mushroom, and leftover potatoes. So these are great to throw on there. That's another wonderful thing, to use your leftovers to create new exciting dishes the next day. But first I want to talk about the skewers. Over here I have ten-inch wooden skewers that have been soaking in water for at least twenty minutes. TIP: Soak wood skewers in water The reason for soaking them is so they absorb the moisture, they absorb the water, so when you put them on the grill they don't burn. So let's get started cutting our veg. So we'll start with the zucchini, this has been washed. TIP: Cut veggies into 1 inch pieces We're going to do about one-inch pieces. You know big enough so they don't burn and they don't take too long. We’re going to cut all the vegetables pretty much the same size. One-inch pieces. And then we have our sweet onion. And then our mushrooms. They're going to go on just like this. I'm just going to brush off some of the excess dirt that's in there. And then the potatoes, they're all ready to go because they've already been boiled from last night. Now our vegetables are all ready to start skewering. TIP: Get the whole family involved! This is another fun thing for the family to get everybody involved. They could put the vegetables on that they like. I'm going to do a zucchini, a mushroom, a pepper, an onion, potato, maybe a little more onion and let's top it off with a mushroom. So we got our kabobs ready. Now I just want to quickly show you to make a nice seasoned oil for them. I'm going to add a little, about a teaspoon of Cajun spice, a teaspoon of garlic powder, smoked paprika. If you can't find smoked paprika, you can use just regular paprika. About another teaspoon there. Let's do our little, our salt and pepper always. And about a quarter cup of olive oil. We mix that up. What we're going to do is brush that generously on our kabobs before they go on the grill. And what I'll do I'll put this side down first and then I'll brush them again when I turn them. So let's get these on the grill. The grill's nice and hot. Brush a little more of our oil on. Because they're already starting to cook and it's going to be quick. You want your, you know you want a little crunch on your vegetable, you don't want them mushy anyway so it's going to be pretty quick on the grill. TIP: Cook for about 5 minutes. So it's been about five minutes and our kabobs are looking delicious. They're ready to come off the grill. And there they are. Next I'm going to show you how to do a great grilled barbecue salmon.