Barbeque ideas please!

What are you doing about glasses?

After a few drinkies folks will put down their drink and forget where it is...then go and get another. With pint glasses, wine glasses, tumblers and forty people, that's a lot of glasses. Are you getting plastic or are you going to borrow them from a supermarket? I can't remember but I'm sure someone on here will tell you which supermarkets do free glass hire...(Safeway/Morrisons?)

As people have said, most food can be cooked in the oven then whacked on the BBQ at the last min or prepared beforehand and brought out of the fridge so that you can enjoy your party without having to dash back and forth. Are there a few reliable friends who you could rope in to take responsibility for a few bits? Say a couple of people to hand out drinks and a couple to watch the oven and replenish the salads while you BBQ?

Potato salad: Two bags baby/salad/new potatoes boiled and quartered mixed with mayo and chopped spring onions. This tastes better if made the night before and kept in the fridge.

Pasta salad: One bag pasta twists mixed with a jar of Loyd Grosman pasta sauce (puttanesca's really nice) (can be made in the morning and kept in the fridge)

Small cubes of feta cheese, halved cherry tomato, ripped basil and olive oil in a bowl is yummy on its own or mixed with a green salad. (it's really nice on french bread too)

Cook your garlic baguettes in the oven then slice and keep in a large bowl on the buffet table, covered loosley with tin foil.

Frozen mini corn on the cobs, cook and keep in a lidded casserole dish on the buffet table to keep warm (plenty of butter....YUM!) Buy some wooden BBQ skewers, push the pointed end into the middle of the cob so that it comes out the other end and snip off the point with a pair of scissors.

If you're using the wooden skewers on the BBQ don't forget to soak them in water for a while first so that they don't burn.

bananas in foil with a difference. split the skin and stick in a mars bar and wrap up in foil and put on the bbq to cook and melt. The kids luv em.

sce37 wrote:

bananas in foil with a difference. split the skin and stick in a mars bar and wrap up in foil and put on the bbq to cook and melt. The kids luv em.

Oh wow! I'd forgotten these ... we made these in Girl Guides Camp, umpteen years ago - cheers for the reminder - *salivating*

vanoonoo wrote:

if you have marshmallows you can also play chubby bunnies!

I was about to say 'please explain' but now I'm thinking it may have something to do with 'how many can you fit in your mouth' - looking like a 'chubby bunny'?

Am I right - or am I being a div (again!)

Talking of 'how many can you fit in your mouth sideways' - we tried this with cadburys fingers at work at Christmas. I won - 13:D Always have been proud if my big gob.

I moved to a new house last Friday and would like to have a mini house warming barbeque this Saturday. Trouble is, have just worked out that moving house is very expensive! Any bargain ideas for a barbeque please? (Assuming weather is good on Saturday!)

Plan so far is:

Serve wine and gin found at back of cupboards during move

Also, have two chorizo from a trip to Barcelona, frozen onion rings (pre-money saving days!) and frozen corn on the cobs. Any ideas gratefully received!