I spent this weekend with some BBQ-mates in a 300 years old house in the Black Forest far off any civilisation without mobile phone, internet, tv etc. Everybody was cooking something, so we had enough to eat - well, in fact we've been eating most of the time...
There was 1,6 ft. high snow, so we just could use a small and cheap 18" kettle-grill (we have there a little off set smoker and an UDS, too, but they couldn't be moved through the snow).
I started friday with some lamb chops that I've marinated with EVOO, rosemary, garlic and salt. After grilling they've been served with hazelnut-persil-pesto.
One of my friends cooked some scallops on rosemary with a sauce of butter, sparkling wine and garlic.
Other friends offered some homesmoked ham: left a "Kasseler" from a pork loin and right a "Prager Schinken" from a pork shoulder.
Saturday I cooked some salsiccia as a starter.
Then I prepared some road apples: tomatoes stuffed with pulled chicken from thighs with hazelnut-persil-pesto and Mozarella cheese and covered with the chicken skin.
This was followed by some oysters one of my friends made with a sauce of sparkling wine, onions and chili powder.
Then we had a salmon that got bondaged to fit on that small kettle.
Then one mate cooked a regional delcacy: potato sausage (which is in fact a kind of blood sausage with potatoes), sauerkraut and homemade "Schupfnudeln" (which is a type of thick noodles made of potatoes, flour and eggs). Looks messy, but tastes delicious.
And last but not least here's a picture of the house we lived in that weekend as we left:
