What makes a really good BBQ?

[BossAssBitch]

Holding a BBQ for around 40 friends in July. Any ideas about how to make it special and fun for our guests?

Adults only...lots of food...plenty to drink...??? Can I come?! Lol
Sounds like you've got it all under control!

@NameChangedNoImagination
Don't do burgers and sausages shock

Don't invite me to your BBQ!

Was just thinking the same then read your comment!
What kind of half assed pretentious nonsense is a BBQ with no bangers and burgers?!
Bring 'em on lol!

Have burgers and sausages for the traditionalists who will go NC and slag your BBq off forever more as The One With No Burgers, and some fancy stuff for the more refined people

Chicken drumsticks always go down well
Potato salad
Pasta salad
Vegetable kebabs

Ooh! Fish as well.
Maybe dessert of baked bananas with the melty chocolate button things down the middle as well

I am hungry now

We did a bbq for 86 guests once. Cooked a whole lamb on a spit, it was delicious. We did also do the burgers, sausages. We have a friendly butcher, who made them, he also made kebabs etc. for us. I just hand the numbers to him and he works his magic with the meat.

The baked bananas as well as the chocolate we slosh cointreau on them before cooking, food of the gods.

Lots of lovely salads, rice, pasta, tomatoes with basil leaves, green leaf, fried onions, a selection of breads. It is great fun. We did put up gazebos borrowed just in case. Xmas lights in the trees made it pretty in the dark.

We had our first bbq of the year tonight. Burgers, sausages from the butchers, chicken kebabs, and a huge chopped salad, simple but delicious, can't beat it!

A friend does ribs. dry rub cooked the day before in the oven for hours. Then on the day the mopping sauce and finishes on the bbq. So good...

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