Got a favorite summer bbq or "geek food" recipe winner you wanna share???

[thekingofpain]

Well, summer starts in another week and a half---YEEHAH!!!---got a good recipe or special food you use regularly to satisfy the wild ones around you while out having fun?

Do you bbq succulent meats/fishes and vegetables???

How do you fill up up those screaming tummys---a cold bucket of KFC or do you get creative???

Got something thats always a winner whether in the backyard/the park/the tailgate/the campsite/on the road or otherwise?

What do you pack in your picnic basket or ice chest???

Care to share your secrets???

:-)

[originel]

a favorite by college students and computer scientists alike: RAMA NOODLES!!!!! (okay so its not summer food, but i had to add it). the thing to pack in an ice chest is obvious isn't it? "alchohol, the cause of and solution to all lifes problems" -Homer

[CERuppel]

How about meat loaf?

Flame me all you want, until you taste Lynns meat loaf youu don't know what you are talking about.

Recipe later, have to whidle another copy out of her...

[thekingofpain]

Better add one of mine, its simple and good for the bbq:

Green shrimp
(hmmm dont sound good, but its YUMMY!)

1 pound large shrimp/prawns cleaned and dried
ingredients are all "to taste"---
handful of fresh garlic chopped fine (2-3 cloves if ya cant hang)
fat handful of fresh cilantro leaves and stems chopped fine
half medium yellow onion chopped fine
red pepper flakes
few drops of sesame oil if ya got it
secret sauce=white wine Worcestershire---its right next to the regular Worcestershire in the grocery store...

Combine all in a bowl, add plenty of the White Wine Worcestershire to cover and let marinate for 30-40 mins in the fridge, skewer and cook over a HOT fire about 2 mins per side, add a squeeze of fresh lemon and smile!

(also works great for grilled vegetables)

Here's my summer dish..

One chub of chocolate chip cookie dough..
Open,, squeeze,, eat.

You don't heat the kitchen with the oven!

[krusty the klown]

This tastes wicked on the BBQ:

Tandoori chicken -

Get some small skinned chicken breasts (on the bone) / thighs and make deep slashes in the flesh.

Either cheat & buy the sauce, or try:

couple of TBSP vinegar
same quantity lemon juice
4 TBSP vegetable oil
at least half a bulb of finely chopped garlic
6-9 TBSP hot curry powder
1/2 pint good quality natural yoghurt
red food dye

Mix it all up, adding sufficient food dye to give a deep red colour. The qualtities can be adjusted - go by the 'feel' of the marinade (some yoghurt is very thick & you may need to thin the marinade). You will need that large quantity of curry powder, as it is just a coating.

Place the chicken in the marinade, making sure the sauce gets right into the slashes. Marinade for 12 hours at least - the longer, the better. Marinade it in the fridge in an AIRTIGHT container - everything else in the fridge will taste of garlic otherwise... much as I love garlic, garlic milk is going a bit too far.

Chuck the chicken on the BBQ & cook through

It works better if the BBQ has a lid.

Do not worry about a little burning: proper tandoori chicken is cooked at very high temperatures in a clay oven (tandoor) and you are trying to emulate this.

If you cannot get small chicken breasts / thighs, then it may be wise to part-cook them in a microwave first, to avoid that 'burnt on the outside, raw on the inside'.

To serve -

Make a mint raita by mixing pre-made mint sauce with natural yoghurt to taste.

Serve with rice, raita, salad and praps a few coarsely-chopped fried onions.

[MikeHof]

Baja Shrimp


Shrimp(the larger the better)

Equal parts of:
Beer(any will do)
Franks Red Hot Sauce
KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce

Add Lemon Pepper to taste


Grill the shrimp w/ the tail still on & baste in the sauce while cooking. After it's done use the leftover sauce to dip the shrimp in.

Mike

[thekingofpain]

Yum---my mouths waterin already :-P

[ZENYO]

Proportions = as much as you like

Cream Cheese
Little bit sour cream
Diced Garlic
Garlic Salt
BBQ sauce
Butter
Mix it all together, make sure there is enough cream chese to make it a nice thick spread.

Get 1 or 2 big spring salmon, (or any type of salmon). Take out the bones, spread the mix inside the Salmon, and be generous.

Close the salmon and wrap it in tin foil, throw it on the BBQ for about 15 – 20min
Unwrap the salmon, open it up and keep on the BBQ until it’s cooked.

You might even wanna pole some holes in the meat so the juices get in. It is very yummy. Always getting requests for that.

[Theophylact]

Tuscan grilled chicken (the easiest and best, not that I have anything against tandoori):

1 cut-up broiler chicken (legs, thighs, breast quarters-- save the wings for some other time)
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/3 cup olive oil
2 Tbsp freshly coarsely cracked black pepper
Kosher salt to taste

Marinate the chicken in the lemon-pepper-oil mixture for no more than an hour. Toss on the grill, salt generously, grill until ready.

If you have a rosemary bush handy, toss handfuls of rosemary sprigs onto the coals and put the cover on the grill to keep the resulting delicious smoke in. You need lots of rosemary for this; a bottle of three-year-old dried rosemary isn't gonna cut it.

If you have boneless, skinless chicken breasts, this takes about five minutes to cook.