Pasta salad with pesto, chopped sun dried tomatoes and pearl mozzarella
Mozzarella, basil and olive oil
Bruschetta
Camembert (in Baking dish) on the bbq over indirect heat. Poke the cheese with slices of garlic, generous crack of black pepper and bake until gooey, add a drizzle of honey. Grill French stick on the bbq rub with garlic or a little garlic butter, drizzle with honey and serve
German potato salad - do this a day ahead roast roast potatoes skins on, on the bbq coal or smoke in smoker. (Lightly!!!)
Once cooked and cooled chop
Add chives
2 finely chopped booked eggs
Finely chopped sweet gherkins (optional)
Finely chopped spring onions
Black pepper
Mayonnaise, squirt of sweet yellow mustard to taste
Garnish with halved bodied eggs and a dash of paprika
Steak, steak, steak and more steak
Use a dry rub on them the night before. Grill on bbq, use a bbq sauce or mop sauce towards end of cooking - wrap in foil to rest
Whole spatchcock chicken - marinate the night before or use dry rub or if brave enough brine - cook over indirect heat on the bbq slow and low and then reverse sear or slow smoke over night
Deli meats and cheese platter
Crisps and dip
Nachos - Grill/roast sweet bell peppers on the coals, dice and add the all the usual bits
Salmon on cedar planks
Prawn skewers
Sweet potato wedges or Whole roasted sweet potato
Roasted corn on the cob
Sea bass if brave enough
Slow bbq lamb shoulder
I love throwing bbqs...