We have had some cracking BBQ recipe and BBQ tips and tricks sent in over the none BBQ season so I thought it would be a great idea to share them with everyone…

Thanks to everyone who sent in their suggestions:

S Whittington suggested this for a great BBQ Burger Recipe:
When making homemade burgers after you have added all the ingredients before making them into patties mix it all up with lots of tomato Sauce to hold them together,the taste is awesome!

Toniq suggested this for a great BBQ Pork Chops Recipe:
Be adventureous! Don’t forget to experiment! We often do Pork chops cubed with aubergine, courgette, pepper chuks, onions on soaked skewers, we alternate between, honey, mustard with cheese marinade to sweet chilli marinade!!! We accompany with some stuffed chiili pork rice peppers which are finished off on the barbie!

Natalie suggested the following Sweet potato BBQ Recipe idea:
Put some sweet potatoes wrapped in foil in the coals while you are cooking your meat - they go really well with ribs, steak and gammon and only take about 20 to 30 minutes.

Mr Crump suggested the following BBQ Cooking Tip for a great BBQ smell:
If you tie a bunch of herbs such as rosemary, sage, mint, on the outside of your BBQ as it warms up it gives off a lovely aroma.

Joolsy suggested a great Pork BBQ Recipe Tip:
Rub your pork with some garlic infused oil beforehand [ed - short and too the point!]

Bella had this brilliant Pork and Apple Stuffing Kebabs BBQ Recipe
The best way to have pork is to make pork and apple stuffing kebabs, just marinate the pork in 1/2pint of cider with 2tablespoons of honey for at least a hour {over night is better for flavour}make stuffing as per the pkt and leave to cool.
When ready for the bbq slice 4 apples and 4onions both cut into quarters {cut out core} and then roll stuffing in to balls, then arrange on a skewer {if using wooden ones the soak in water a hour before hand to stop it burning}.
Arrange pork apple stuffing and onion on the skewer{you can also add mushrooms or peppers} and then bbq for 15/20 mins turning often.
Theses are yummy yummy

Sarah suggested this nice sounding BBQ Pork Recipe idea:
I love marinating pork overnight in apple juice before bbq-ing - makes it sooo tender!

Ami had this tip for cooking BBQ Ribs
Never ever boil ribs first. Everyone always tells you that and effectively you’re making a broth, taking out all the flavour from the ribs!!
What you really want to do is sort of roast the meat. BBQ is a low heat method of roasting, and by dry roasting will concentrate the great flavors of the meat. Grill them slowly and lowly!

Kelly had this veggie BBQ Recipe idea:
I marinate Quorn with lemon, tandoori paste and yogurt and the BBQ and bbq a roti or Chapati, I do the same for my husband with chicken, it’s really tasty and much healthier than a takeaway.

We have had hundreds and hundreds of tips like these so please keep them coming and we will do another batch of BBQ recipe tips, tricks, recipes and BBQ advice shortly.

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The weekend just gone was Clim Tim’s Birthday (45) and he decided that given the nice weather we should begin Season 10 early and get BBQ’ing. Never one to miss a chance to BBQ we saddled up and headed on over for an away fixture.

The earliest we have ever done BBQ’ing before was April for Cairo’s birthday so to get our charcoal out this early was a real plus.

Given the early start and fluctuating temperature it was decided to take this old school BBQ style and so a nice plain and simple Sausage and Beef Burger was the choice of the day.

Clim Claire gave the ASDA Home Grocery Delivery a go given that their meat is supposed to have the best quality of all the supermarkets and so it was a good place to start.

We went for the recommended pork and apple speciality sausages from ASDA which cost just £2.28 for 6! Bargain ahoy….

Apologies but I cannot remember the name of burgers!

Cairo and I took along a few bottles of vino given there was going to be a big attendance as the extended Clim Tim’s family were coming. We went to our favourite wine place, Majestic Wines and brought along a South African White Wine called Boschendal Sauvignon Blanc which we first discovered at a friend’s wedding and is very nice indeed, and also a Majestic Rioja Crianza 2005 Berberana which I did not try but every said was great.

Back to grilling; given I had not used a BBQ forover a year and the last one was using a kettle BBQ rather than the open BBQ the Clims use I was a bit nervous but all came good. By the way, if you are deciding which BBQ to go for, go Kettle BBQ everytime, much more variety and quicker cooking times!

With a bit of careful rotation everything was cooked within 25 mins and everyone started making their own burgers using the ingredients Clim Claire had prepared.

All in all, a nice relaxed way to start BBQ Season 10. Game 1 was a success and so I am really looking forward to getting our kettle BBQ up and running and trying out some new BBQ recipes!

Wine for Game 1’s BBQ came from Majestic Wine

The BBQ recipe Sausages and BBQ recipe Burgers both came from The ASDA.