What do you have at your BBQ??

**MummyDuck** · January 23rd, 2012, 06:01 PM

We are doing an aus day BBQ- I was wondering what do you usually have at yours - particularly sides and deserts???

I'm a cake maker on the side but don't want to make a cake if I can get away with it!!!

So far we have around 30 of us and we have:

Pre food:

Beetroot dip and crackers
Chips
Lollies (I hate the things)
Nuts

Meat:
Prawns
Snags
Butterfly lamb
Hamburgers
Chicken kebabs
And I'm thinking maybe some minute steak

Sides:
Coleslaw
Potato salad
BBQ corn cobs
A small garden salad (never gets eaten)
Bread
Rolls
Onion

Dessert:

Lattice slice
Pav
(Icecreams or icy poles for kids?!?)

I feel like I'm missing something???

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**MummyDuck** · January 23rd, 2012, 06:02 PM

Oh and a fruit platter

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**Phteven** · January 23rd, 2012, 06:12 PM

Cous-cous salad
Green bean salad
Raita
Hommus
Tomato and onion salad
Mango and tomato salad
Leb bread and/or turkish bread

Meat on a stick

A bombe

Punch

**Kazbah** · January 23rd, 2012, 06:59 PM

Second the (non-alcoholic) punch, or iced tea.
BBQ'd sliced potato (yum)
Pasta or potato salad.

You don't need to do lollies, have melon balls instead (yum)
Make your own frozen fruit snacks / iceblocks from pureed fruit, maybe dipped in a little chocolate for a treat!

**Joeve** · January 23rd, 2012, 07:01 PM

I made a salad at our recent BBQ it was beetroot walnuts feta and mint was a hit! For desert we did mini jellys, and a pre purchased ice cream cake

Sounds like you have it sorted.

**xXHopeXx** · January 23rd, 2012, 07:17 PM

Completely irrelevant, but I thought the first dessert said lettuce slice. I was a tad confused

We don't really have anything different to what you have. Kebabs maybe? (homemade ones with onion, pineapple, ham and capsicum)
Pasta salad, potato salad, coleslaw, garden salad, bread rolls and meat rissoles, can't think of much else

Sounds Delish!!

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**AliBaby** · January 23rd, 2012, 07:21 PM

You could buy lamingtons as well for dessert. Aussie and you wont have to make them.

The rest sounds delicious.

**Rouge** · January 23rd, 2012, 07:39 PM

Pink Salad (Baby Beets, Cheese cubes, Egg, Mayo)
Potato Salad/Potato Gratin/Mashed Potato
Turkish Salad/Baby Spinach Salad
BBQ Corn/Asparagus
Meat of various desciptions

Dips/Chips/Crackers/Veg

Icecream Cake (usually with meringue, chocolate & raspberry) or
Nutella Meringue Cake or
Chocolate Bavarian Cheesecake (this is always a winner at BBQ's)

Sangria!

Now I feel like Iced tea...

**MummyDuck** · January 23rd, 2012, 08:30 PM

I saw the pink salad earlier it sounds yummo!!!

I like the idea of the melon balls- Choc dipped ices (name that strawberries and bananas and it will go down a treat for my dd)

Punch YES!!! How do you make it lol???

Decided on trifle for an extra dessert

Turkish bread a must with my beetroot dip

Dh usually does BBQ potatoes but I don't like how he does it

Thanks girls!!!! Great help

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**Phteven** · January 23rd, 2012, 08:59 PM

I kind of ad lib punch - basically you're going to mix fruit juice with something fizzy and some fruit. You can add iced tea to it for a bit of a twist and what ever alcomohol you fancy. Vodka is pretty neutral but tequila is nice too. In a melon punch you can add midori, malibu to a tropical and so on. Champagne is good for fizzy punch or riccadonna if you want a sweeter bubbly wine. Passion pop is not ok unless you are 18.
I always like to chuck mint leaves in punch - it gives it a fresh vibe that nothing else can replicate.

If you google a bunch of recipes you can come up with your own.

Apple, orange and ginger punch
2 cups apple juice, chilled
1 1/2 cups orange juice, chilled
2 cups dry ginger ale, chilled
3 cups lemonade, chilled
125g strawberries, hulled, diced (plus orange slices and cubed apple)
Ice cubes, to serve

To make it alcoholic add about 2/3 cup of vodka.

Mix it all together in a jug or punch bowl.

Fruity Champagne punch
375ml (1 1/2 cups) chilled sparkling wine
375ml (1 1/2 cups) chilled lemonade
80ml (1/3 cup) chilled vodka
80ml (1/3 cup) Malibu coconut liqueur
1 lime, thinly sliced
100g frozen raspberries
125ml (1/2 cup) fresh passionfruit pulp
some mint leaves
Ice cubes, to serve

Mix it all together and serve.

**Novella** · January 23rd, 2012, 09:11 PM

I was going to say fruit platter then saw you had added it

I often do a potato bake if we are having lots of people as its cheap, easy and fills people up so you don't need quite as much meat. I also keep a woollies pav in the pantry and if I think I need it I always have cream and tinned passion fruit pulp on hand

Unless its a birthday our friends offer to bring something so we often put on meat and dessert and guests bring a side /salad and we do the same if we go somewhere

**Pholi** · January 23rd, 2012, 10:25 PM

Passion pop is not ok unless you are 18.

For your punch, you could try making an iceblock with sliced fruit/mint leaves arranged in a pretty pattern (eg, slice of kiwi in the middle and strawberry slices arranged like flower petals) with lemonade instead of water, so that as it doesn't water down the punch as it melts, but it keeps it all nice and cool. Use a flat bottomed container about 15cm or so across and freeze a cm or two deep lemonade in it, then arrange the fruit and add another few mms of lemonade and freeze again, then add another cm or two to make it as thick as you'd like it.

**Cherished** · January 24th, 2012, 06:37 AM

We don't have a BBQ

how VERY un-Australian

But if we did we'd always have veggie burgers.... Again prerty un-Australian! I love brandy snaps for dessert but rarely have them. Whip up a bowl of fresh cream and a bowl of fresh berries. I just put the brandy snaps in a bowel and then dunk into the cream. If you make them instead of rolling into a cylinder cut them into triangles for dipping.