Australian Aussie BBQ Blog

Aussie Charcoal from Riverina

paulr — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:17:09 +0000

Hi one one our posters (and manufacturers of charcoal) send me the following photo’s of the charcoal manufacturing process. Looks like an interesting method: 1. You get some wood The you light it and let it turn into charcoal (yeah I know lot’s about the process (sorry Peter), I believe the technical term is “smouldering” (cough cough I [...]

Australia Day planning

paulr — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:54:57 +0000

Just a small post (again)… Our plans for Australia day are: An Aussie brunch (snags + bacon and eggs on the barbie) Followed by the beach An afternoon bit of BBQ-ing with lamb. That should keep the BBQ’s going for the day!

Gadgets (replacements/additions)

paulr — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:10:49 +0000

Well, I ordered a new instant thermometer for my good friend Chris (Urbangriller) in Perth. I should hopefully arrive next week and I will out it through it’s paces and blog a review about it!! I’m also replacing my trusty Weber chimney with an aussie Heatbeads one (if BBQs galore have th new version instead of [...]

2010

paulr — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:01:42 +0000

My first blog for 2010!!! Well the idea is to blog at least once a week. This may prove hard but I’ll def give it a go. A big change for us is that we’re moving to sunny Queensland (Noosa) which is great for my BBQ-ing as it is an even more outdoosy environment than Sydney! It will [...]

Rottiserie Chicken (Lemon Soy)

paulr — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:44:31 +0000

Well I decided to cook a chook this weekend. I actually prepared the marinade on Saturday and kept it in the fridge overnight. I also wanted to use the rotisserie to see if it made a difference. Anwyay results and recipe (easy) below. The recipe: 2 Tbps Lemon juice 2 Tbps Soy sauce Rind of 1 lemon 3 garlic cloves Pepper [...]

Jerk Pork Tenderloins

paulr — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:42:47 +0000

Well had some time today (finally) to do a blog post. I have been BBQ-ing but just haven’t been able to find the time to blog (although I did tweet photo’s on previous occassions). Yeah I know need to MAKE time to do these blogs. Anyway here goes, decided to try some jerk pork tenderloins. Went to [...]

Sizzling Garlic and Parmesan Mussels

paulr — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:22:56 +0000

We cooked some mussels tonight with fresh bread and a salad on the side. We haven’t cooked mussels in a while and decided to try a new recipe (using the gas Weber) for a change. In this case we used mussels that were pre-packed in a 1 kg bag (and cleaned); they were excellent! I used [...]

Midweek Chili and Garlic prawns

paulr — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:25:57 +0000

Yeah I know it’s holidays but I reckon it is a midweek cook (as I didn’t have mcuh time nor did I want to spent a lot of time). Anyway we decided to have some shrimp on the barbie, and since we both like prawns, garlic and spicy the choice was easy: Chili and Garlic [...]

BBQ Adventure: Hickory Chicken

paulr — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:25:00 +0000

Quiet weekend, so decided to have some chooks on the BBQ. As they were kinda small we butterflied and cooked 2 (no point firing up the Komodo Kamado for just 1 chicken?). As I wanted a simple recipe all I did was chop up some garlic, mix it with olive oil and pepper/salt and rubbed [...]

Party time

paulr — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:57:06 +0000

Well we had a number of friends over for a party (about 30-40) and I had two BBQ’s going. Just the Komodo Kamado with ribs; and using my Weber to cook up some snags and some chorizo (they always go down a treat. Yeah yeah I made photo’s but haven’t posted them on flickr yet. What [...]