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Ok for the first time this summer we have a really nice day and I thought I would crank up the barby. Gimme some ideas I can try guys n girls. Maranades, or salads to accompany...anything, I look forward to having some multi-cultural suggestions

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Hey vicki...my wife made a salad the other night....red sweet peppers, red onions,
celery...and mixed it with vinager and olive oil...it was crunchy and fresh...she made it with Brats...it was awesome..
Summer...geeze...it's 10 below zero in Chicago...

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oooh sounds great Nick  :hug:

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mix 1/2 and 1/2 pinapple juice and teriyaki

mainate whatever you want in it and toss it on the grill.

i also like to slather a chicken breast in bbq sauce (my own creation) and toss it on the grill.  keep slathering on sauce while it's cooking and allow the sugars in the sauce to carmelize a little.  top with honey ham and top that with cheddar and allow the cheese to melt.  

we do LOTS of bbq down here.  lots of smoking mainly, but grilling is quicker during the week.

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Morgan are you looking for just sides, appetizers, sauces, or also primary dishes like brisket, ribs, chicken, etc?

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Steve that sounds divine

Bill I am always interested how other folks do it, so anything goes really.

Last nites bbq was a simple affair with just husband and me. I did a rice salad with nuts dried fruit celery etc in a curried mayonnaise
and a pasta salad with peppers and corn and ham n cheese mixed in. then we just grilled savory patties and chicken breasts

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What is a savory patty? Anything like a hamburger? In Texas we throw anything that isn't mooing, clucking, or oinking on the grill--the word "savory" doesn't usually enter the conversation.

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its kinda sausage meat that has been flavoured with herbs and onions kinda like a hamburger but not flat bigger than a meatball

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Burgers? You mean like this?

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Morgan down here in Tx we usually call Barbque things like smoked beef brisket, pork or beef ribs, bbq'd chicken, smoked sausage, and these are usually served with sides of potatoe salad, and bbq style pinto beans - some like coleslaw and pickles as well.

These are typically smoked on different types of wood: Mesquite, Oak, Pecan, Hickory, Cherry, Maple

Briskets are large and usually take a lot of prep to get read to cook, and then cook for 10 to 24 hours at a slower pace with lots of smoke. The other meat items mentioned above cook within 1 to 2 hours.

Around where I live there are German influences and they create various combinations of sausage from pork, beef, venison and smoke these. You can buy in the store. They can be reheated / completed real quick.

I do love BBQ, and often mess around with it. We typically use covered pits, or barrels for smoking in.

I suspect New Zealand BBQ'ing is more of what we would refer to as grilling - although as you go out of the south in the US I believe they also refer to grilling as a BBQ even if they are just cooking burgers.

Grilling is great too, and I love it. A few weeks ago I created a dish that was grilled pork tenderloins with a roesmary cranberry / red wine glaze served with crisp rosemary potatoes, and asparagus with a lemon / hollandais sauce. Yum it was good. I just made it up in my head. It ended up being similar to dishes you would spend many dollars for in a fancy Italian or similar type restaraunt. Not sure what the influence is. Definitely it is similar to Italian, but with perhaps a French influence.

Yep, I have many passions - just check my profile page. That isn't even all of them. But yes, I love food also. I love to eat good food, and I am also a pretty talented cook, although I don't do that a lot anymore. I am pretty sure I got it from my Mom. She's a good cook, and my Dad was always like a critic ever searching for the best. My Mom has the ability to just taste and imagine the right balance of what needs to be added and in what proportion. We're also pretty good at just envisioning tastes in our head. Usually our schemes work out well. Sometimes we start with an idea from a restaurant or another recipe and modify it, etc.

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Here's a BBQ restaraunt in the outskirt of Austin in the Hill Country. They are pretty decent and have expanded to other states:
http://www.countyline.com/

The County Line BBQ on the Hill was the first location. The Mom of a kid I used to go to school with created their homemade bread - which is good stuff. This place on the hill is beautiful at sunset. You can sit on the outdoor stone patio and look across the Hill Country while sipping on a Mexican Martini. O I love those.

They have an Air Ribs link where they will ship food anywhere in the US, but not sure if they go all the way to NZ. They are good. They have this Big Daddy beef rib plate that has a rack of ribs about 2 ft long and about a foot wide. These are giant beef ribs and they are good. They are nearly as good as I can make them but IMO not quite.

Anyway, for the rest of you in the US, you might check this out. Not sure how good the quality after shipping but I assume they refrigerate. You would want to heat this stuff real slow in the oven after wrapping in foil.

You can click through their online catalog for a view of this Tx BBQ.

Oh, looks like they have some recipes online too:
http://www.countyline.com/recipes.asp

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omg Bill that is horrendous  LMAO

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Bill will you marry me? that sounds stunning!!!

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Yep. I believe that's the 11 lb current world record. The newest big burger is 15 lbs I believe. That big guy in the picture couldn't finish it off in one sitting. Instead that was accomplished by a skinny teenage girl.

http://foodmarket.com/news/2005011701.html

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Bill, you gotta head out to Taylor and hit Louie Mueller on 79.  You gotta get there early, thoguht 'cuz the line forms around 11:30 and they only cook so much..when it's gone, its' gone!  another good one is downtown Austin at Iron Works - one word...AWESOME!
on the subject of your rosemary/cranberry glaze, there's a great ready made sauce you can get at HEB.  it's a raspberry/chipotle sauce that is absolutely heaven with pork loin or venison (the only two meats i've tried it on...so far)  speaking of BBQing, we cleared about 30 acres of mesquite a few years ago and I still have some left.  if you ever neeed any, let me know.  i prefer to cook with oak anyway.

by the way, i just remembered...if you saw the move The Rookie (where dennis quaid played jim morris, Plot Outline: A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.)  the part where he's in "the bar" he's actually in Louie Mueller's.  It was filmed in and around Round Rock.  The minor league baseball scenes are shot at Dell Diamond and the high school baseball shots are done at thorndale high school.

iron works site http://www.ironworksbbq.com/
louie mueller http://www.louiemuellerbarbeque.com/

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Darn you two!!!!  You got me all hungry for BBQ and it is way too late in the day for me to fix anything that would be worthy enough to be called Texas BBQ.... I supposed I can always run over to Sonny Bryan's and pick some up.....Darn..It's just not the same....But I guess it will have to do....

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awwww!  i got snogged!  i haven't been snogged in a long time.  
    there i snogged you back....and then some  (growr!)

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yep the middle one definately looks like a snog...I am not gonna even begin to mention the puppy dog smilies at da end
but its great to see youxxx

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Sure. Why not? Send me a ticket to NZ and I'll come visit.  :oh yeah:

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