al fresco dining

[hop]

With the forecast predicting a warm sunny weekend with temperatures reaching a high of 24c I imagine many of people with be enjoying eating outdoors.

If you are planning on firing up a BBQ or even have a more unusual outdoor cooking device like a buried tandoor do you have any cooking tips / recipes to share? If you have a kettle BBQ do you favour direct or indirect cooking techniques ?

One of my favorites is indirect cooking of a recipie called 'beer can chicken'. To cook this you take a chicken and shove an open can of beer up its rear end. The coals are placed on the sides of the BBQ with a tray below the chicken to catch the fats and prevent them from causing the coals to flare up. The bird is then placed on the grill rack immediately above the drip tray and the lid of the BBQ put in place.
The lid will keep the steam and heat inside the BBQ and help the flavours infuse.


What tips / recipies do you have ?

 

[Katniss]

I don't really like chicken @hop so I usual cover some drumsticks in a marinade and leave it for a few hours before popping them in the oven to cook for an hour. Then I place them on my Outback bbq and finish them off. I usually do corn on the,cob steak and homemade burgers on there as well as small chicken satay sticks. We sometimes put fish on there wrapped in tinfoil with either some fennel or some herbs to give it some flavour. My family are not that keen on fish but they will eat marinaded king prawns or salmon if forced into it.

 

[Katniss]

@hop I have just gone out and got some stuff for a bbq later because it is lovely and sunny here.