What's your signature dish?

a51_ufo

Wow thanks for all the replies! Lots of ideas to that will keep me going for future entertaining! Grilled pineapple sounds interesting and the banana and bacon one I would never have thought that would work! The most exciting my marinating ever gets is chicken in teriyaki sauce so 'Mike's chops' sound like a great change. ananderson8 do you cook the onions first or leave them raw?

"Get a beef and tomato pot noodle, pour it into a lasagne dish in layers between Kraft cheese slices. Top with crisps." Lol the other half often creates things like this when left to fend for himself!

I planning on having martini asti with sliced strawberries in when people arrive - relatively cheap but gorgeous! We have an outdoor fire pit we have done toast on and marshmallows on a stick when sitting out in the evenings any other alternatives to marshmallows on a stick?

Reading through all these replies have made me really hungry!

angeltreats

When we have a bbq I always do pizza-express style doughballs with garlic butter to nibble on when people are arriving. As we have some friends who are chronically late for everything, they keep everyone else from becoming too hungry

You just make pizza dough (I use Nigella's recipe from How To Be a Domestic Goddess), prove it, roll it into balls and stick in the fridge till you want them, and bake for about 10 minutes with the oven up as high as it'll go (250ºC for me). And make a bit of garlic butter to go with - garlic cloves, parsley, butter in the blender.

Everyone without exception loves dough balls, I have found.

krlyr

A good BBQ recipe I do is buffalo wings - though often to save the mess of wings, I use chicken fillets cut into small cubes for 'buffalo bites'

I tend to do a bit of a combination of these recipes, slightly tweaked over time to our tastes
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/buffalo_wings/
http://americanfood.about.com/od/appetizersandsoups/r/bufchicwing.htm

Another new favourite is pulled pork - so for our next BBQ I'll probably make it in the slow cooker and then just pop the slow cooker out on low to keep it warm and pop a serving spoon inside so people can help themselves. Served in a soft bun with coleslaw, delicious!
Again, a bit of a tweaked-to-suit recipe, but this would be a good base
http://www.chow.com/recipes/30356-easy-slow-cooker-pulled-pork

I make homemade burgers too - mince, onion, small amount of breadcrumbs, egg, worcestershire sauce, garlic, salt & pepper, then I may chuck in some chili powder, chili flakes, jalapenos, etc. to spice them up (I leave some plain for those who can't handle the heat!). I made some really thin ones the other day so when it came to cooking them, I pieced two together before cooking, with some grated cheese and jalapenos in the middle, just for a change!

browneyedbazzi

I do potato skins for bbqs and parties and they're always gobbled up and when i get invited to BBQs they're what people ask me to bring.

They're just jacket potatoes (cooked for a long time in the oven so the skins are crispy) with a bit of the inside scooped out then filled with your choice of fillings - i use bacon and cheese or a veggie one with salsa and cheese. I make them up in advance then put them in a hot oven to warm them through and melt the cheese just before serving. You can save the potato scooped out from inside too and use it for mash (i don't like mash but people say mash made from baked potatoes is gorgeous).

I also do chicken drumsticks for bbqs/picnics - i put the chicken in one of the bags that you can bake things in along with some flavouring (you can do tandoori flavoured ones by marinating the chicken in some tandoori paste and yogurt or milder ones using your choice of seasoning). I cook them in the oven ahead of time then put them on the BBQ to finish off/warm through. I feel nervous about chicken on BBQs so feel safer with the pre-cooked chicken and it's also quick on the BBQ so people aren't waiting around for ages for it to be cooked through.

We're supposed to be BBQing on monday (if the weather holds) - I have a pineapple I want to turn into a dessert so if anyone has ideas for that I'd love to hear!

krlyr

You could simply grill the pineapple on the BBQ - this recipe adds a bit of hot sauce for a change but not sure if it would quite be dessert, more a side dish
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/grilled-pineapple/

This one with lemon juice and cinnamon sounds much more dessert-y
http://www.grouprecipes.com/52667/grilled-pineapple-spears-with-brown-sugar-glaze.html

Personally, I'd make an upside down pineapple cake, they're one of my recently discovered favs, but not particularly BBQ specific

Molly41

My signature dish since school (28 years) is pineapple upside-down cake. It has always, except once, always turned out perfectly. The one time it did not was when I was baking it for the practical of my Domestic Science A level practical:(

SDG31000

Triple chocolate caramel marshmallow brownies or my chocolate chunk banana cake. Both have had rave reviews and friends ask for them as birthday and Christmas presents.

motherofstudents

Sea bass is always nice done on a bbq. Other than that, I just make potato salad and coleslaw and let everyone else do the barbie as I usually end up with flames.

Any

My signature dish is chicken noodle soup. Made from scratch. Not very BBQ food, sorry!
I would make canapes with chorizo and piece of cheese and dressed with ghurkin or marinated red pepper, cream cheese and smoked salmon, garlic soft cheese ham (or just philadelphia).

de_g.

Two guaranteed winners:

- Racks of pork ribs - buy them whole from your butcher, coat with mustard then use a dry rub. Cook in the oven on quite a low heat until the rack goes a bit floppy, then brown up over the barbecue while it's still very hot. I use 'Meathead's Memphis Dust', recipe at: http://www.amazingribs.com/recipes/rubs_pastes_marinades_and_brines/meatheads_memphis_dust.html

- Pork Tenderloin lollipops - it's a Jamie Oliver recipe, but it's really nice: http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pork-recipes/blackened-barbecued-pork-fillets