It's a few weeks old now, but I did manage to host my birthday BBQ this year - we were blessed with some good weather, and the local Covid restrictions had dropped to a sufficiently low level to make this possible. Unfortunately, shortly before the day we learned that one branch of the family couldn't make it due to self-isolation, which meant we weren't able to all get together as had been hoped. A shame.
The BBQ itself went really well. We massively over-catered, of course, but that's par for the course with these events. It was no big deal - the remains either got eaten up over the next couple of days (if cooked) or went in the freezer (if not).
But what marked this BBQ out from the others was that this was the BBQ of Many Meats... although in fairness, several of them ended up not being used.
Specifically, we had:
- Beef, in the form of burgers
- Pork, in the form of sausages
- Venison, in the form of sausages (not used)
- Goat, in the form of burgers (not used on the day - we've since had them, and concluded that while they were nice we probably wouldn't have them again, as they aren't nice enough to justify the extra cost)
- Lamb, in the form of burgers (used) and kebabs (not used)
- Sea bass (not used on the day - have since consumed)
- Prawns (see my Experimental Cookery post)
- Chicken, in the form of drumsticks
- Wild boar, in the form of sausages (these were great)
The most important thing from the BBQ, though, was that everyone had a really good time. I was obviously very happy about that, and it was really great to see (almost) everyone again - it has been far too long since that was last possible.
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