Barbeque ideas please!

scrouge

Hi there... congrats on the house move!
BBQs can end up v expensive, so saving money is definately the name of the game.
With the corn-on-the-cob i would be extra frugal and defrost them and then slice them, you can then bbq it just like a burger!
Also the chorizo would go well with a cheap bag of rice and/or pasta, throw in a few herbs, tomatos, mayonnaise etc...
When we have BBQs i never buy steak, ribs etc..
Just the more ordinary stuff, burgers, sausage etc..
If you really wanna be a miser i sometimes buy tinned hotdogs and have them with cheapo breadbuns.. saves a fortune ,you can also use them to bulk up a bowl of pasta (just add some tomato ketchup, mayo and onions)
Just buy diced pork/chicken and make your own kebabs by adding chunks of onion, mushroom, peppar, courgette etc.....
hope its of some help to you.. anyway if its a house-warming party make sure everyone knows thats what the BBQ is for and maybe a few new household goodies may be given as gifts..

squeaky

If you're stuck for other recipes you could try the collections we have here by clicking on the blue (Index) in my signature below. I'm particularly fond of the Chilli and Ginger Chicken myself, for some reason.

Lots of good advice will be along any second now...

Galtizz

1) Go to your local butcher or a butcher at your local market and see or ask if s/he is doing any BBQ packs, mine do one for £10 which has loads of different BBQ pieces of meat in it that would cost much more than £10 to buy at the supermarket.

2) As scrouge said, serve loads of pasta/rice salad type stuff and put it out before you start the BBQ, that way they'll fill up on that and (hopefully) won't eat as much meat.

Jay-Jay_4

Have a look here for inspiration


There's another one somewhere but I can't find it :rolleyes:

Like Galtizz said, fill 'em up before the meat arrives

Garlic Baguettes, pasta with a jar of Lloyd Grossman sauce stirred through, a couple of bags of new potatoes with mayonnaise and chopped spring onions, rings of corn on the cob (microwave and then cut into slices and served with melted butter in a lidded dish) a big dish of lettuce, tomaotoes and onions. some bread rolls, crisps, nuts.................

......only then do you bring out the BBQ food

Good old burgers and sausages on fresh rolls always go down a treat. Asda do lovely fresh rolls which are soooo cheap. Get plenty of ketchup, shredded lettuce and cheese slices and your guests will be happy.

Sarahsaver

new potatoes cooked on a skewer;) yum!

Queenie

I put instructions for Chicken On A Beer can on another thread a while back ... here's a direct link it's dead easy, feeds a few and makes full use of the coals burning time, thereby making it a bit more economical.

Even if we don't want it that day, we do this whenever we BBQ so that we have it in the fridge for another day.

HTH

reverie

Thanks all, you are such stars

We are having:-

Whatever comes in the pack of meat I find at butchers, as suggested by Galtizz
Pasta salad bulked up with grated carrot etc
New potatoes
Sausages
Asda rolls
Veg kebabs
Onion rings
Lettuce/tomatoes other salad bits
Crisps/peanuts

Pudding: something using filo pastry (bargain found reduced today)

Queenie the chicken sounds so fab, I may have a go. I take it I have to keep the lid on the barbeque? Don't know if it's tall enough.

Oohh.. I am hungry now

Queenie

reverie wrote:

.......... Queenie the chicken sounds so fab, I may have a go. I take it I have to keep the lid on the barbeque? Don't know if it's tall enough.

Oohh.. I am hungry now

Ah, good point! I don't have a lid on my BBQ - only a chimney So, no, you don't need a lid - but I tell you something, once you've tried it, you're gonna lurve it

Numptie

Put the new potatoes in foil with crushed garlic,butter and salt. Garlicky new pots dripping in butter, yum. Make your own colesaw, just grate some white cabbage, carrot and mix with mayo.You can make a huge bowl for about a pound. Much tastier and crunchier than shop bought.

Yoga_Girl

Bananas!

Just bung on the barbeque in their skins for about 15 mins, cut off a strip of the skin along the length of the banana and spinkle the banana with whatever you fancy - honey, alcohol, brown sugar, ground nuts. Serve in their skins.