BBQ Fun at the Lava Lounge

[CoasterMatt]

Just outside my door, is a nice sized barbecue, which I put to use from time to time.
Last night, I decided to try something different for my burgers.
I started by coating the patties with garlic powder and cracked black pepper (I looove black pepper) - pretty usual stuff here.
Then I took the patties, and tossed them in a large ziploc bag with about a half cup of Myer's Special Dark Rum. I let them marinade for about 3 hours - they smelled SO good, I was ready to devour them raw!

I put a dab of butter on each half of the buns, and toasted them on the grill for a few minutes.

I topped off each burger with some bleu cheese crumbles, and a splot of Bullseye BBQ sauce.

Even Rose (my dear wife) absolutely loved them.

Anybody else have some good recipes/tips for bbq'ing?

[Kevy Baby]

We've been TiVo'ing "Good Eats" with Alton Brown. He has had a couple of episodes with great BBQ ideas. He has a great tip on marinading: dump the meat and the marinade in a large zip-lock baggie and push all the air out before sealing. We are saving a lot of the episodes to DVD.

My favorite is marinated tri-tip and corn on the cob (slather the corn in butter and a spice or two (varies) and wrap in tin foil to throw in with the steaks). Num num!

[Matterhorn Fan]

Anybody else have some good tips for bbq'ing?
If a vegetarian is coming over, thoroughly clean your grill, and grill the veggie burgers in their own section of the grill, as far as possible from splattering/juicy meats. And don't give them a bun--or anything from the burger side of the grill.

[CoasterMatt]

Actually, for vegetarians, I have another grill :)

[Matterhorn Fan]

Will you be my friend?

[SusieP.]

Put the blue cheese INSIDE the burger when you make the patties!

Oh great, now I'm hungry.

Corn on the cob is awesome on the BBQ, with a little squeeze of lime and some chili powder, parm. cheese if you like.... Or you can mix up some flavored butter to use.

Now I have to go eat lunch.

[Ghoulish Delight]

If you have a favorite meatloaf recipe, make it into patties and throw it on the grill (minus some portion of the wet ingredients and probably a little more of the dry to help the patties hold together a little better).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

If you have a favorite meatloaf recipe, make it into patties and throw it on the grill (minus some portion of the wet ingredients and probably a little more of the dry to help the patties hold together a little better).Mmmm! Those were so good. But they definitely needed more of a binder - it was more like sloppy joes by the time we ate it.

[Morrigoon]

Lemon juice gets very smokey, but it makes things oh-so-good. Things like, oh... shrimp, or perhaps bacon-wrapped asparagus :)

Emeril's chicken apple sausage (probably other brands of chicken-apple too) are EXCELLENT cooked on the grill

Mustard onion:
Take a yellow onion, cut it down toward the base in many sections, open it up a bit, squeeze some mustard down in all the cuts, then pack that sucker full of brown sugar. Wrap it up in tinfoil and cook until soft (about 1/2 hour or more). Great alone or as sandwich topping for the above-mentioned sausages.