Summer Barbecue Challenge

...a one-off food blog event to inspire great outdoor cookery all summer long!

I really enjoy trying something new and interesting when I'm cooking. I love a challenge. Despite this I somehow manage to keep coming back to the same old standby foods when we do a barbeque: sausages, steak, potato salad, corn on the cob. I rarely venture beyond this.  I always think I'll do something different, but then I just don't seem to have any ideas.

Now that summer's truly around the corner (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere) the challenge of what to have with the barbeque is upon us again. This year not a one of us will fall be forced to fall back on the same old cliche barbeque dishes again.

...If you're like me, stuck in barbeque rut, step outside your comfort zone and come up with one interesting barbeque dish.

...If you don't seem to have any problem moving beyond the potato-salad-and-corn-motif, share your wisdom with us.

Here's the deal for this one-off food blog event:

1) between now and May 13, 2006 cook and write a post about a barbeque dish that you think is special;

2) email me the permalink to your post, your name and your blog's name on or before May 13th;

3) I'll post a roundup over the weekend;

and here's the BEST part:

4) we'll all have a virtual recipe book of fantastic barbeque dishes to inspire our backyard and campground cooking all summer long!

Sign up. Join in. Chow down.

Comments

[Ian McKenzie]

Sounds like a plan. I've already taken advantage of the weather and used the barbeque three times in the past couple of weeks.

[Anne]

Oh, this is just perfect! I'm moving to a HOUSE, so I can finally have a barbecue! Probably not in time for this event, but hey, I really, really look forward to the round-up! :)

[Sandra]

It'like to be flying with a prototip of new plane!!! :-)
I don'have a BBQ but if I have the possibility to used one...sent you the recipe..
But in Italian it's very difficult to understand,or not??
I'm trying to translate in english...
:-)

[Jena]

Aw, c'mon...give the winner the barbecue. :)

[Kerner]

Are we talking bbq or are we talking grilling? I'm in for either, just need more planning for the bbq.

[Lyn]

As a Canadian, I use the word Barbeque to mean all manner of backyard gas, wood or charcoal cooking! I understand that there are some folks - mainly from the South for whom Barbque, means a particular kind of slowcooked meat in a tangy sauce. So to answer the question - you could do either bbq or grilling, as long as the recipe is meant to be cooked over a flame or embers and eaten outside. Preferably getting your face covered in sauce at the same time.

[Stephanie]

Ok. Arm has been twisted. Matt will love this.

[Gabriella True]

I am in! sounds like so much fun

[Craig Strachan]

Sounds like a great idea, here's a submission from South Africa, inspired by a French Recipe.

http://www.notesfromthecape.com/2006/05/camembert_chees.html

Craig

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