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Sour Dough

Feel like barbecuing but it's not dinner time? Why not bake some sour dough bread for breakfast or lunch?

Hake Under Moonlight

Hake Under Moonlight

It was not quite a full moon last evening as I prepared this fish dish for the barbecue. It was a little thrown together with whatever ingredients I had to hand, but worked out really well. At this time of year the evenings have not quite lengthened into Spring although

Chicken Breasts and Vegetable Skewers

Chicken Breasts and Vegetable Skewers

It’s a great feeling when you can serve the entire dinner directly from the barbecue. Load up on smokey flavours.

Versatile Barbecue Sauce

Versatile Barbecue Sauce

This versatile barbecue sauce recipe can be extended and modified easily to make your own unique creation.

Christmas Turkey

Christmas Turkey

Nothing feeds an extended family for Christmas dinner like a roasted turkey barbecued slowly outdoors.

Beef Brisket

Slow cooking is essential for brisket with ten to twelve hours needed to soften and imbue that smokey flavour into the meat.

Pork Tenderloin with Brine

Pork Tenderloin with Brine

A pork tenderloin or fillet requires advance planning. Using an overnight brine is easy and will completely change this excellent cut of meat.

Ribs: Slow

One of my favourite BBQ sites is the bbqpitboys.com and they have a load of recipes and techniques for cooking ribs. This recipe, especially the Bourbon sauce for basting, is a mix of a few of their recipes, adapted for whatever ingredients I had on hand.

Roast Beef on the Road

Roast Beef on the Road

We stayed overnight at my father-in-law’s house and I had to cook for seven adults and two children on his kettle barbecue.

Pork Loin Roast

Pork Loin Roast

This is probably one of my favourite recipes. What’s fun about the pork lion is that the flavour of the meat isn’t so overpowering, it allows the stength of the ingredients to impact upon the dish - sort of like a blank canvas for the artist! What’s

Roast Leg of Lamb

Roast Leg of Lamb

One of my favourite meats to cook on the barbecue is lamb. Legs can be quite big and so require plenty of time, benefitting from slow charring over smokey coals.

Spatchcock Chicken

Spatchcock Chicken

Spatchcocking, or butterflying, a whole chicken reduces cooking time and can be a useful technique if you run short on time.

Spicy Chicken with Bitter Sweet Sauce Surprise

Spicy Chicken with Bitter Sweet Sauce Surprise

This one has been a work in progress, particularly on the sauce so I tried it twice over so far; once on meat balls and chicken wings and once on chicken thighs. I might even try it on a whole chicken next! The idea is simple; use a good spicy

Sea Bass Over Coals

Sea Bass Over Coals

Fish cooked outdoors on a charcoal barbecue can be a great experience; enjoyable to cook and also to taste. For this meal I also added some chunky chips and vegetable skewers. Potato can be slow to cook, so I cheated a little by pre-cooking the ships in some butter and