Barbeque ideas please!

vanoonoo · 5 March 2005 at 11:47PM

forevershopping wrote:

What do you mean by music and "stuff"

I think i mean entertainment in general

we invariably get drunk (dirnking games?) and start singing (karaoke?) and dancing (mind the gravel burns) - twister is great for barbeques as are hot tubs and swimming pools (although only with adult supervision and not when drunk

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if its a saturday be warned that there may be some kind of football / sporting type event that people may want to watch. many is the time we've had to drag a tv into the garden and construct suitable shade so people can see the screen. perhaps your friends arent as rude and ignorant as mine though

do all the guests know each other already? is it worth having some icebreaker type thing where people have to get to know each other.

if we're really lucky judi might come and tell us about the last garden party type barbeque she had *evil grin*

foreverskint · 5 March 2005 at 11:58PM

if you use chicken try the following failproof non-poisoning method for cooking.

You will need large pressure cooker or stock pot sized saucepans.

place your chicken pieces in the pan with some onions ( dont need to peel) some chopped up carrot and celery,a bayleaf and some whole peppercorns.

cover with cold water. ring to the boil and skim off any froth and then simmer until chicken is thoroughly cooked. cool quickly and refrigerate in the following ( cheap But really tasty marinade)

Marinade.

equal quantities of Worcester sauce, tomato ketchup (dont use puree) and some sugar.

add dry mustard powder, dry chilli flakes and some crushed garlic.

mix together and wop over the chicken . when required remove from fridge and barbeque of shove in a hot oven.

This works really well on ribs too following the same method for boiling as above. the meat will still be really juicy but fully cooked and fall off the bone.

the quality of the ketchup and worcester sauce is not important cheap and cheerfull work just as well.

enjoy

Sarahsaver · 6 March 2005 at 12:10AM

bbq?
wait for better weather!!!

chardonnay_2 · 6 March 2005 at 1:29AM

the chicken kebabs go down well you can also add mushrooms, onion etc.

bowls of savoury rice is good - can get it in packets in supermarkets doesn't take long to cook, loads of different flavours.

as people have suggested salad/coleslaw/ and garlic bread are good - not sure if you can bbq this.

some people bbq fish.

chilli beans/ spicy beans are a good with the meat. normal baked beans add onions, peppers, then add hot pepper sauce/ chilli powder/ garlic salt/ tabasco depending on how hot you want them.

salsa- homemade or bought

spicy onions

Edinburghlass_2 · 6 March 2005 at 2:31AM

Start saving up any 2lt plastic juice bottles and cut them half. You can then put a tea-light in the bottom bit and put the top of the bottle with the cap off over another tea-light. This means the tea-lights don't get blown out with wind

and you can line the path with them.

vanoonoo · 6 March 2005 at 2:42AM

cous cous

with chick peas

chardonnay_2 · 6 March 2005 at 5:04AM

edinburghlass wrote:

Start saving up any 2lt plastic juice bottles and cut them half. You can then put a tea-light in the bottom bit and put the top of the bottle with the cap off over another tea-light. This means the tea-lights don't get blown out with wind and you can line the path with them.

thats a really good idea

sce37 · 6 March 2005 at 9:39AM

Garden flares are easy and cheap ways of lighting the garden. Found these as an example http://www.candlesontheweb.co.uk/acatalog/Shop_Entrance_Garden_Candles__109.html

suki1964 · 6 March 2005 at 9:41AM

If you are thinking about making BBQ spare ribs, boil them first until tender, drain and cool them then put them in bags with the marinade in the fridge overnight. They can then be "cooked" on the edges of the grill as they only need warming and the glaze will go sticky without burning.

One thing I always have to remember when having family BBQ's is that half of my family are muslim so I cant cook pork on the same BBQ as I cook anything else (I do have 2 thankfully) Some vegetarians also wont eat food thats been cooked alongside meat

forevershopping · 6 March 2005 at 10:53AM

great ideas

love the cheap and easy marinade foreverskint,

also the tealight bottle covers will help,

thanks everyone i'm getting things sorted in my head now, keep the suggestions coming, can never have to many

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