Sunday, 24 February 2008

Cheap BBQ ideas

Are you going to have a barbecue and you need some cheap bbq ideas? Well, one guy used these ideas and spent $150 on his barbeque. Is that a lot? Yes. But you could improve. The ideas are pretty good and the guy, for example, said the party was good and there were not many leftovers whatsoever. He catered for about 10 people and so $150 makes it about $15 per person including everything. But, oh well, you are going to need to perform better.

For cheap bbq ideas, corn is pretty good. It can be soaked in water and placed on the grill. Peel the husks back later, of course, to use them as a handle. You should also wrap found of butter in cheesecloth to help you coat the cobs. Another good idea is getting vegetables on a kabob skewer. Use several vegetables: zucchini (the word comes from the Italian language), peppers, onions, mushrooms or so. Use olive oil to brush them.

Making a bbq on a shoe-string budget is not very easy but managable. However, don't overdo it as the purpose of the bbq is to have fun time and bad quality products could totally ruin the epxerience. Apply the bbq ideas wisely.

Finally, wanna invest some? If you want to be have those ideas and then perhaps save money n the process, consider getting this book on bbq ideas (also cheap).

BBQ ideas – what to bring to a BBQ party

I remember somebody asking for BBQ ideas to bring to a party and some other person doing a good job answering the question. He asked for unusual cool food and got an interesting answer. Today I am going to repost what he said.

For food to be bringed to a bbq party party, you could consider lasagna or chilli. These are tasty, not everybody would bring them and they are vegetarian. Having a vegetarian bbq, it is a good idea to have soup or stew, a veggie kebab and some grilled mushrooms. along with fried rice. Also, spinach dip served with bread and vegetables is a good idea.

You could also do yoghurt dipping source or a bean cassule or simple potatoes. You could make some cheese-filled dough cups with artichoke dip.

What else could you do? Well, there are many possibilities. You could try mixing some of these to bring to your party. You could search this site for more bbq ideas. You could just get a book and find all the ideas you need. It really depends.

BBQ preparation – how to keep it real

We are talking about bbq ideas, there is no much use of it if you don't even know how to properly prepare a bbq. That's why I'm going to discuss it in a article and outline some of the most important concepts of bbq ideas and bbq preparation.

First of all, the easiest way is to use some of the ideas on this site or on the book that keeps getting recommended. Marinate for some time, or perhaps find some already marinated meals at the grocery. In any case, talking about marinate, even though I outline “at least an hour” of marinate time but it still actually is better to keep it real and marinate for more time (24 hours is the best, perhaps even more than that).

Then, you might need some onions to add and some peppers (red peppers, yellow peppers, whatever) to add them to the meal as they taste good. Also, for more ideas, you can just try cutting a pepper into 4 parts, sticking it on a metal skewer and roasting it for a quick meal. That is, you'll be eating roasted pepper alone and that still is a tasty thing. However, if you use the pepper to add to the male rather to make the meal itself, it's also okay.

Also, you can try adding some flavor by getting a smoke-box at a bbq store. It doesn't make that much of a difference but it might very well be an inexpensive nice little addition to your bbqs.

Basically, as I have already outlined, there is quite some literature with bbq recipes, bbq guides and all kinds of bbq ideas. I have already mentioned the bbq guide book to help you learn to make the most out of your bbq experience.

Summer BBQ ideas – also make an asparagus

Once I was searching for some summer bbq ideas. And even though summer is not present in the Northern Hemisphere yet, I thought I'd still post some. I'm going to discuss two bbq ideas you can apply in summer (not exclusively, though but summer goes). Anyway, so, through my search I found this delicious asparagus recipe that I am now going to share with you.

Here is the asparagus recipe... First you need to do the preparation of the asparagus. Cut off the ends and score the stems to make sure they are devoid of the un-nutritional parts. Then put your asparagus in the microwave and turn it on for about a minute (perhaps a little bit more) a pound with a tsp of water.

Then put your asparagus in a bag to marinate for at least an hour with olive oil, garlic salt, balsamic vinegar and soy sauce.

Then you can start grilling but you must also remember to turn it frequently until the meal becomes soft. Then you'll be ready to serve. It makes your barbeques so much better.

Now, as I said I would post some more on it, though I'll soon be sharing more bbq ideas with you, for now I'm only going to recommend this book on barbecue for you. It is one of the most elaborate bbq guide I have ever seen and should you get it, you won't be needing new bbq ideas for long long time! You can get the book by clicking here.

Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Friend's bbq idea - Mackerel

Talking about bbq ideas, I'm going to share 2 tips with you today. First of all, we're going to talk about his favorite bbq recipe that he has found and should I ever come over to him, he'll always prepare that one (although he is well aware that there are many other recipes and I have tried teaching him some more – no use). He is just too keen on this bbq idea.

This bbq idea uses some curry paste, barbie and is easy to perform... Best of all, it's fast to marinate. No, that's not best of all. Best of all it's tasty (to my friend anyway). Oh, and, it uses another ingredient... mackerel.

Here is how you go about the preparation. First, take a mackerel. You won't be eating the skin, will you? So, slash it off. Then rub the mackerel in a curry paste (my friend has some special recipe for his that he won't tell me but it seems any curry paste will do).

Then put it to marinate for about an hour (or more) and then put some barbie on. You are ready to prepare. You know the rest.

Now, as I said I would post some more on it, though I'll soon be sharing more bbq ideas with you, for now I'm only going to tell you to get this book on bbq ideas. It is one of the most elaborate bbq guide I have ever seen and should you get it, you won't be needing new bbq ideas for long long time! You can check out what the book's about by clicking here.

Monday, 18 February 2008

First of the bbq ideas: Salmon bbq

We are going to post this first because this bbq idea is one of my favorite. Salmon is a great alternative to meat which I'm enjoying. This bbq tastes really great and it's not very hard to prepare. Here is how it goes...

You place the fillet of Salmon on a big foil. Then you slice about ½ of a lemon to place it on the Salmon. The other ½ of the lemon you squeeze on the fish. Then you would wrap the foil to make it into a box and put it into the fredge for about ten hours.

Then, you simply take it out, get it defrosted and cook the bbq about 8-12 minutes. Then you get some yoghurt, bread, some salad and serve.

Mmmm... this is a really cool type of a bbq. Bon apetit.

Getting BBQ Ideas

I used to often find myself on the verge of organizing a party and looking for some bbq ideas. In this sentence, of course, bbq stands for barbecue, but we are going to use bbq for the sake of simplicity in this site.

First of all, let me tell you that I'll be sharing bbq ideas with you here. But... bbq is not only about meat. Myself, I kinda like vegetarianism. Bbq could be defined as a method for cooking food. Not necessarily meat. If you can, I encourage you to become a vegetarian. But, I'll be sharing those bbq ideas from the times when I was more open and my ideas will go for meat too.

Of course, we aren't going to talk about only ideas from South or Texas. We are going to try to cover a little bigger variety of ideas you can use for your bbq.

Having said that, I'll soon begin giving you bbq ideas on this site that you can apply immediately and have some fun and good rewards! See you soon.