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When it is hot my husband would love to barbecue every single night, but I have to consider our budget when meal planning. After shopping at the butchers our bill was rather large so I added fish to our barbecue plan and compromised on some nights by substituting a cheap meal like pasta. See what you think….

1. Barbecued Trout, green salad and rice.
2. Kedgeree (I use a Nigella Lawson recipe – read it here) with salad.
3. Barbecued Sausages, new potato salad, rocket salad.
4. Bacon, spinach and creme fraiche pasta with salad.
5. Barbecued Chinese spiced ribs, rice salad, rocket and radish salad.
6. Barbecued Mackerel fillets, new potatoes and tomato salad.
7. Barbecued Minted Lamb chops, cous cous and marinated green bean salad.

How can you do a really tasty barbecue really quickly?

We have found the answer by buying all our meat already marinated from the butcher. Buying marinated meat is only a few pennies more but it saves time and we have been so impressed with the quality. The butcher is able to marinate the meat for much longer than we would and as a result the meat tastes incredible!

I enjoyed watching Jamie Oliver’s episode of ‘Jamie at Home’ on Channel 4, where he shared loads of great tips on barbecuing, watch it here.

It seems summer has finally arrived. We’ve been having really hot, beautiful sunny weather. Yesterday it was really hot and as an antidote to a family funeral we decided upon a barbecue. My husband loves to barbecue but we were both tired and wanted something quick to eat. We had barbecued Salmon. Why don’t you try this recipe on your barbecue this weekend? It is so quick and easy and this recipe serves two.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp Sweet Chilli Sauce
Juice half a lime
2 Salmon Fillets

Method:

1. Marinate salmon fillets in chilli sauce and lime for as long as possible (10-15 mins can be sufficient).
2. Prepare barbecue to a medium heat.
3. Pop salmon on barbecue skin side down.
4. Cook fish slowly until it has become a light pink colour – time for this will vary with the heat of the barbecue (it took around 15-20 mins on our barbeque as the heat was low).

Serve with microwave rice, egg or rice noodles drizzled with soy sauce and a green salad.

If you don’t have a barbecue you can pick up a disposable one really cheap or like us you could spend around £15 and buy a mini gas barbecue at a camping shop. We bought our mini portable barbecue about four years ago now and it is still going strong. It is small enough to take out for the day and it is great at home if we need an extra place to cook barbecue food at a different temperature or to cook fish separately for vegetarians. Please share some quick, tasty barbecue recipes!