QOTW: What are your favorite BBQ menus & recipes?

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for the group. Please take a moment to share

your comments and answers if you have time;

all input is appreciated and the more the merrier.

 

QOTW for June 29th - July 5th, 2008:

 

With the US holiday of the 4th of July coming up

this week, it brings to mind backyard BBQs, picnics,

and fun sharing food outdoors.

 

1. What are your plans for this week's holiday?

[if you are from the US; if not what holiday do you

celebrate this summer that is similar? Share your plans]

 

2. What is your favorite menu for outdoor dining?

 

3. Are you a veggie dog or a veggie burger person or neither?

[share your favorite brand or recipe or alternatives]

 

4. What are your favorite picnic salads, desserts, and snacks?

[Guest guest]

Not sure yet what I am doing for the 4th, however when I go to Chicago for

my family picnic I will be making my red bean and spinach burgers and not sure

what other burger yet as I am still working on the other recipes.

 

When I go to my cousins BBQ end of July beginning of August I usually make

my Kicked Up Salsa dancing Macaroni Salad.

 

Gayle

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

> 1. What are your plans for this week's holiday?

 

I don't have any real set plans right now, but we will probably have a BBQ

picnic dinner

that day for sure!

 

> 2. What is your favorite menu for outdoor dining?

 

Wine & beer & some other beverage [non-alcoholic] like iced tea or lemonade.

Fresh fruits & veggies

Salad -macaroni, potato or otherwise

Veggie stuffs- veggie dawgs, kabobs, or vegburgs

Chips & salsa

Pie & ice cream for dessert

 

> 3. Are you a veggie dog or a veggie burger person or neither?

> [share your favorite brand or recipe or alternatives]

 

I want one of each! I like Yves big dawgs because they fill the bun nicely. I

like

gardenburger brand of vegburg.

 

> 4. What are your favorite picnic salads, desserts, and snacks?

 

I love my Sweet Potato Potato Salad for a potato salad and for macaroni salad I

love my

recipe called Northern-style Mac Salad. But if I am going to a party where the

peeps are

not vegetarian, I will take along a big bowl of my Cold Chic Macaroni Salad, and

then I will

have that as my main dish if they don't have much other vegstuff to eat.

I don't make pie in the summer because it is too damn hot to bake, but thank

goddess for

the store bakery! [laughs] Just buy some ice cream and dessert is a done deal.

For snacking at a picnic you can't beat dill pickles and chips with salsa. I

like cut fruit and

veggies with dips too.

-Gaia

[Guest guest]

Oooh sweet potato salad sounds good! Do you have a recipe for that you can

please share, Gaia?

 

Gaia <nephilim9000 wrote:

> 1. What are your plans for this week's holiday?

 

I don't have any real set plans right now, but we will probably have a BBQ

picnic dinner

that day for sure!

 

> 2. What is your favorite menu for outdoor dining?

 

Wine & beer & some other beverage [non-alcoholic] like iced tea or lemonade.

Fresh fruits & veggies

Salad -macaroni, potato or otherwise

Veggie stuffs- veggie dawgs, kabobs, or vegburgs

Chips & salsa

Pie & ice cream for dessert

 

> 3. Are you a veggie dog or a veggie burger person or neither?

> [share your favorite brand or recipe or alternatives]

 

I want one of each! I like Yves big dawgs because they fill the bun nicely. I

like

gardenburger brand of vegburg.

 

> 4. What are your favorite picnic salads, desserts, and snacks?

 

I love my Sweet Potato Potato Salad for a potato salad and for macaroni salad I

love my

recipe called Northern-style Mac Salad. But if I am going to a party where the

peeps are

not vegetarian, I will take along a big bowl of my Cold Chic Macaroni Salad, and

then I will

have that as my main dish if they don't have much other vegstuff to eat.

I don't make pie in the summer because it is too damn hot to bake, but thank

goddess for

the store bakery! [laughs] Just buy some ice cream and dessert is a done deal.

For snacking at a picnic you can't beat dill pickles and chips with salsa. I

like cut fruit and

veggies with dips too.

-Gaia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Sadly we have no holiday here in Scotland until the middle of

September - even later in some parts of the country as the autumn

holiday varies from region to region. Even more sadly, summer seems to

be passing us by again this year so I can't see myself eating al fresco

either! However I shall fire up my George Foreman grill and pretend!

 

I like both vegeburgers and vegebangers. Since I adopted a vegan diet

I've found very few commercially produced vegeburgers that are

suitable, so I make my own. My most favourite ever vegeburger was a

mushroom and nut concoction which I devised using what was leftover

after making a mushroom stock, mixed together with some ground pecans

and wheatgerm, amongst other things - one of those never-to-be-repeated

experiments that you wish you had written down at the time! My

favourite commercially produced vegebangers are Taifun Tofu Grill Herb

Sausages - actually I have really enjoyed any of the Taifun tofu

products. However I imagine that they are only available in Europe as

they are made in Germany.

 

Christie (overcast in Edinburgh)

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QOTW for June 29th - July 5th, 2008:

 

With the US holiday of the 4th of July coming up this week, it brings to

mind backyard BBQs, picnics, and fun sharing food outdoors.

 

1. What are your plans for this week's holiday?

For the first time in years I am not having a cook out. It would have been

my first as a vegan. This year we are headed to King's Island Amusement

Park. They have so much to do there this holiday and will end with a huge

fireworks display. So, we are going to enjoy some of the park food that is

vegan friendly. We will probably pack some light menu items just in case

the cuisine is not up to par in the car.

 

2. What is your favorite menu for outdoor dining?

 

This I have not done yet as a new veg*n. My family knows that I no longer

eat meat or animal products. I am the known as the griller, so it would

change as far as meat prep. But my menu would like this.

 

BBQ tofu

 

Vegetable Shiskebobs (sp)

 

Vegan Baked Beans

 

Grilled Corn on the Cobb

 

Veggie burgers/dogs

 

Party Punch

 

3. Are you a veggie dog or a veggie burger person or neither?

I am not really into veggie dogs or burgers. But it is nice to have once in

a while. I have missed them since going veg. When I first tried them, they

were awful. That was because I was a very new veg and was still used to

meat and its texture. The longer that I stay away from it, the more

accepting I am of the newer taste and texture. I really like Smart Dogs,

Tofurkey, and the Boca burger brands.

 

4. What are your favorite picnic salads, desserts, and snacks?

 

Grilled peaches and plums

 

Potato Salad

 

Brownies and Cupcakes