Tag: bbq recipes
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Perfect smoked and marinated octopus for all occasions

Look, this is a bit of a process but if you love octopus as much as I do or even if you like to dip your toe into the pond of the octopus aficionado, you will find this reward of the end product far out ways the trials and tribulations of said effort. A really…
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Ultimate Coq au Vin Recipe for Winter Comfort

Cock au vin, or chicken in wine, is another one of those dishes that I really look forward to when the weather chills down some, and even more so if we have an excess of roosters that we need to deal with*. You can cook it in a camp oven on the way to wolf…
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Smoky Beery Beef Cheeks: A Simple Guide

Have a read of this recipe, read it again and then tell yourself maybe this could as simple as it seems. Like, mountain folk cousins mating type simple. SMOKY BEERY BEEF CHEEKS 4 beef cheeks, approx 400 – 450 g each, trimmed of silver skin and excess fat1 onion, sliced1 can of whatever beer it…
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Jalapeno & cheese hotdogs with pickle relish

This is not the humble hotdog I remember from my youth. My memories involve of some kind of bright red sausage shaped thing of undisclosed origin, pulled from a pot of swampy looking, steamy water and then slapped into a piece of white sliced bread (or maybe a warm bun if we were lucky) and…
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Singapore noodles with prawns

Sometimes I forget how much I love noodles. Especially Singapore noodles. Oh, how I love Singapore noodles. This is pretty easy, mid-week cooking that is tasty as fuck and can certainly be toyed with as much as your sweet little heart desires. This time ‘round I had some prawns from the ocean that is just…
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spaghetti bolognese, aka spag bog, on the bbq

Spaghetti Bolognese or, as we like the odd colloquialism and/or slang in Australia, the spag bog or spag bol. I will be going with spag bog. Not sure why, but that’s just what we’ve always called it. I bloody love a good spag bog. Always have. Although I must admit the spag bog that would…
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the BASTARD BURRITO

Until last week, I had not eaten a burrito for over 20 years. That is one thing I know about. Things I do not know about are how to build a traditional burrito, if in fact the burrito is traditional Mexican cooking at all. But I am in luck because I have a default setting…

