kiwinow

Wow. Didn't know you could get the stands here. Thanks for that.
Yeah, just google the recipe - there are several versions and I'm dying to try it, but you need a BBQ with a hood.

CarolineSwan

Last year we wer at BOP for xmas at friends and we had a massive buffet kind of lunch, with chicken, ham, potatoes, salads, rice dishes , veges, plus trifle , pavlova, xmas pud , even though it wasnt a bbq it was very relaxed, no sitting round the table kinda thing, we were all in the garden having a drink ate dinner then all headed to the beach for sunbathing, was best christmas day i can remember no stress , just pure relaxation

not sure yet what we will do this year , think probably a bbq though rather then the roast thing then of to the beach or vice versa

baldylocks

Beer Butt Chicken can be done in the oven too, just make sure you drink about a quarter of the can of beer first you can then add herbs into the can before insertion, this gives extra flavour, ( best chicken i have ever tasted )

BEVS

This year we are going to a friends house for a champagne breakfast first. Then home and off to another friends house for a trad. turkey roast.
Boxing Day will be our chill out day .

One of our best Christmas Days here was camping with friends and a simple BBQ.

Charismatic

Cooking is something girlfriends/partners/wives do for boyfriends/partners/husbands* (respectively). I’m no expert but after extensive observations about cooking (mostly standing next to my girlfriend and asking repeatedly “Is it ready yet?” every 30 seconds much to her annoyance ) it appears that cooking is a series of techniques that make food warm utilising convection, conduction and irradiation.

However the full process may involve many steps from turning the raw foodstuffs into cooked foodstuffs. Peeling, mashing, mixing, chopping and many other processes can be utilised to change the texture of the food. Sometimes this can be done using a sort of written procedure called a “Recipe” and other times the woman doing the cooking thing can do so without any guidance.

I’ve never seen the appeal but have often wondered if one could invent a cooking machine (no doubt if it was men that cooked this would have been automated years ago).

* Or for money in the case of that man who shouts a lot on the TV.

garfield250

Haaa but we mere men do cook................. hence the BBQ, male domain in many circumstances
Not quite automated I know but none the less.................

Kiwiprincess

It wasn't until I started reading this site that I had any idea 'everyone' did BBQs and especially BBQ on the beach in this country!

Nobody I knew did. Cold meats & salads yes. BBQ - not so much. Although, I do know people who over the last couple of years have decided to BBQ some foods.

Recent thing though.

Kiwiprincess

Actually, most of my Christmases have been what Carolineshewan describes.

AndyR

You know when I started this thread I never thought it would end up containing the phrase

"beer in the butt chicken"

HAHAHA! Thanks for the great ideas though everyone. We've been in Auckland 4 days now and loving it. Only stopping in a serviced apartment in the centre until after the holidays and will then look to get somewhere perm in one of the suburbs.

Thanks for the tips on public transport over xmas. Will have a look where we can get to a beach with that.

Thinking now we will end up trying to do a small turkey in the oven in the apartment. After spending 6 months living in a small campervan in Oz, the novelty of having an oven is just too good to pass up. Plus we brought a Pavlova base today so that'll go down nice too!

j19fmm

[QUOTE=AndyR;8190801]You know when I started this thread I never thought it would end up containing the phrase

"beer in the butt chicken"

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Asked my cuzzy about this, he'd never heard of it! I googled it and found loads of receipe ideas!