Summer BBQ Time!

[slamjet]

Its BBQ season! So while I may not get invited to any BBQ this year I do have a couple of throw together, a few and less ingredient recipes for the unlikely time I am. So without further adieu, my suggestions:

Cheese: Add Ranchero Queso Fresco cheese to them! It's crumbly and adds a great flavor to just about anything, especially any Mexican dish. You wonder what that white crumbly cheese was they put on your taco-al-carbon that made it so much better? Well, this is what it is.

Quick & Easy Dip: I learned this as a teen. Take a pound of cream cheese, soften it and add bottled of Pace salsa to taste. Be careful to not ad so much that it gets too runny. Get a bag of corn chips (or Doritos) and go! Everytime I take this to a cookout, people ask what's in it, they turn up their nose, they try it, and it's always the first thing that's finished before the half-way mark. Good, easy stuff.

Fruit Salad: I never cared for that fruit salad that has a ton of pineapple juice in it. and plain fruit is good, but it could be better. Try this: use cut up apples, pears, melons (minus watermelon, too watery) and/or berries. Put in a bowl and when you get to the cookout, pour on some Crema Mexicana. It really turns on the fruits! It's not sweet and it's not sour, somewhere in between. But this is a staple of every BBQ our family put on.

So what are your ideas? Simple, five or less ingredients. that can be grabbed at a moment's notice. And please don't put "steak, one ingredient." Kick it up a notch.

[Eowyn]

Fruit Salad: I never cared for that fruit salad that has a ton of pineapple juice in it. and plain fruit is good, but it could be better. Try this: use cut up apples, bears, melons (minus watermelon, too watery) and/or berries. Put in a bowl and when you get to the cookout, pour on some Crema Mexicana. It really turns on the fruits! It's not sweet and it's not sour, somewhere in between. But this is a staple of every BBQ our family put on.

Do you recommend that the bears be diced or cut into rustic chunks?

Your ideas sound delicious. You're welcome to BBQ with my brood if you're ever in the Boise area, but we never do anything fancy.

I love asparagus tossed with a little balsamic vinegar and kosher salt, and cooked on the grill. Of course you'd need some sort of grill pan or foil underneath.

My favorite pasta salad is your choice of assorted veggies cut and marinated overnight in Italian dressing, then tossed with pasta, olives, and pepperoncini. Yum.

[Bini]

OK Eowyn wins this one.


BWAHAHAHAHA.

[slamjet]

Originally Posted by Eowyn

Do you recommend that the bears be diced or cut into rustic chunks?

Aw man, cut me some slack, I'm a product of LAUSD, I learn not a thing.

[Wingnut]

Originally Posted by slamjet

It really turns on the fruits!

Isn't that a little inappropriate for the general forum?

[Bini]

Where's Slam's "Oh. My. Word".. ???

[beefche]

A couple of dips that are always a hit:

1. cream cheese and a can of chili. Put in a crock pot and let them melt/warm together. Serve with tortilla chips.
2. Cream cheese, green onioin, and Buddig beef meat (Products | Original Extra Thin Buddig). Mix together and form into a ball. Serve with crackers.

[anatess]

Whatcha talking about? We've been barbecuing for 3 months!

Okay okay, here are my staples:


http://http://www.amazon.com/Mama-Si.../dp/B000EOGU5G

Put that on any cut-up chicken, beef, or pork, stick them into soaked bbq sticks and grill. Put in a basket-weave plate lined with banana leaf add a scoop of steamed jasmine white rice and you'd think you're at a Filipino restaurant.

And for chips dip:
Brown one roll of Jimmy Dean sausage in a saucepan, add a box of philadelphia cream cheese and a chunk of velveeta. Mix and simmer. Or you can just drop the stuff in a crockpot.

[Dravin]

Hummus is easy too, the only expensive bit is getting the jar of tahini, but once you buy it you can make a lot of hummus with it. It's just olive oil, chick peas (I am lazy and just used canned), garlic, lemon juice, and some salt, pepper, and cumin. Salt if using canned chickpeas is optional.

[Bini]

Anatess, what about fried bananas?