Hot Potato Salad

4 slices chopped bacon
1 small onion
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
⅓ cup vinegar
¼ cup water
6 medium sized potatoes chopped into 2 cm squares
salt and pepper to taste

Fry bacon and set aside. Chop onion and parsley and cook in frypan for a few moments. Return bacon to frypan and add water, vinegar, salt and pepper. Add potatoes, mix together and place into a casserole dish. Place in oven and cook at 180ºC for 1 hour. Yummy, hot or cold!

Leonie

Curried Pasta Salad

Curried Pasta Salad

1 ⅓ cups uncooked pasta
¼ cup chopped spring onions
1 medium green pepper, chopped
2 tablespoons sultanas
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
salt and pepper to taste

Dressing;
¼ cup oil
¼ cups vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons curry powder

Cook pasta, drain and run under cold water. Combine all salad ingredients into a mixing bowl. Mix dressing ingredients together in a sealed container and shake well. Toss through the salad, garnish with sliced red pepper.

Leonie

Donna's Spinach with Bacon and Eggs Salad

3 hard cooked eggs, halved lengthwise
8 cups baby spinach leaves, thoroughly washed and dried
250g smokey bacon, finely diced
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Separate the egg whites from the egg yolks. Press the egg whites then yolks through a sieve. Set aside.
Put the spinach in a large bowl
In a med skillet over med heat, sauté the bacon until the pieces are brown and crisp. Pour off all but 1 tbsp of the fat. Add the bacon and fat to the spinach. Add the oil and vinegar. Toss to thoroughly combine. Taste for salt and add with freshly ground black pepper as needed. Toss again.
Cover the salad with the sieved eggs and sever immediately.

Chicken Marinade 2

Was just cooking and thought of this one - I didn't make it up but use it often as the kids like it.

2 tbspn oil
3 tbspn golden syrup
2 cloves garlic crushed
citric acid - not sure how much i add a shake or 2 from the container
Shallots or chives optional
and I also add chopped parsley

Pour over chicken - can be pieces, thighs or breasts and cook later on the barbecue!
Yum
Joann

Merrin's Chicken Thighs

Skinless, boneless Chicken Thighs (trimmed of fat if you can be bothered)
Olive Oil
Balsamic Vinegar
Honey

Marinade and bbq - awesome with garlic and black pepper sauce or plain old mayo :-)


Dagnammit, now I'm hungry!

Merrin's Rissoles

I always do my special rissoles and my special chicken for pretty much every bbq - always commented on and devoured!

500g mince (beef, lamb, chicken, whatever you like)
1 egg
1 packet of onion soup mix (that's the trick)
1/2 cup breadcrumbs or more if the mix is too runny
1/4 tomato sauce or chutney
squeeze of garlic
squeeze of ginger (if you want you can get all fancy and use the fresh stuff)
1 large zucchini, grated.

Mix it all up and bbq - makes about 8. Double, triple or quadruple the quantities as needed.

Hamburger Mix

This was my mother in law's recipe for barbecue hamburgers and every one seems to love them. Makes quite a sloppy mix.

500g mince
1 cup milk
1 packet chicken noodle soup
2 eggs
1 onion finely chopped
1 cup SR flour
1 grated carrot
1 cup water.
Mix together and allow to stand.

Joann

Whitney's BBQ chicken and zucchini

This is one of our favourite (and very simple) marinades for chicken, which
is then great on the BBQ

Soy sauce
teaspoon or so minced garlic
same quantity minced ginger
tiny bit of minced chilli (if you wish)
half teaspoon sugar
can add a splash of olive oil too - although not necessary.

Marinate chicken breast fillets (cut each breast into three chunky strips),
for a couple of hours, then drain liquid and BBQ. Yummy, tender and moist.

Also, love thick slices of zucchini BBQd briefly on both sides, perhaps
brushed with oil and garlic first.

Joann's BBQ chicken marinade

2 tbspn oil
3 tbspn golden syrup
2 cloves garlic crushed
citric acid - not sure how much i add a shake or 2 from the container
Shallots or chives optional
and I also add chopped parsley

Pour over chicken - can be pieces, thighs or breasts and cook later on the barbecue!