Fathers’ Day BBQ
This Sunday is Fathers’ Day, we hope you have all remembered! So, what can you do for your dad? Cook…
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This Sunday is Fathers’ Day, we hope you have all remembered! So, what can you do for your dad?
Cook a BBQ Lunch/Dinner for him
You can find BBQ recipe ideas and inspiration here. Our favourite BBQ recipe at the moment for a nice warm spring day is Lime Chili Prawns, which is delicious when served with a fresh salad.
Kids, remember to get your Mum to help you out with lighting the BBQ.
Take him to a Cook Off
Is your Dad competitive or perhaps he just loves the great outdoors and camp oven cooking? This Saturday September 5, the Redesdale Camp Oven Cook Off is on 10.30am to 6pm at The Redesdale, about an hours drive out of Melbourne.
Winners of our Fathers’ Day Competition Announced
Thank you to everyone who entered the Heat Beads® Fathers’ Day Spithouse Spit Pack Competition. There were some fantastic stories about your dad’s barbecuing triumphs and tribulations and we found it almost too close to call!
Leon from Surrey Hills in Victoria had us in stitches with his winning entry (see below). It truly shows how far Australian’s have come with live coal cooking and of course cooking over spits! A Spithouse Spit pack is on its way to you Leon, just in time for Fathers’ Day.
Leon's Dad with his Spit
“I would like to share a funny story about my dad and his Heat Beads®/BBQ adventure.
Dad called Australia home in 1956, after emigrating from Greece. Being of Greek background, lamb/goat and the outdoor BBQ/spit are very much part of the culture and lifestyle over there. Well, after a few years of being here my dad and some other new arrives very much missed the lamb on a spit tradition during Easter. At that time spits were not very common at all – so using some “ingenuity” they made a spit out of an old washing machine motor and some metal barrels cut in half. Dad’s neighbours at that time in Hawthorn were quite perplexed at the contraption they were making! (His neighbours were 3rd generation Australians).
They found the contraption a bit odd – but to their horror when Easter time came around and dad and relatives decided to cook a lamb on the spit – the neighbours were convinced that they were grilling a greyhound and called the police!
Dad recalls the police arriving and much to my dad’s amusement being lectured that “you can’t do that in Australia!” – dad finally convinced them it was a lamb and an Easter tradition. He offered them some of the lovely succulent meat and they even stayed for a few beers!
Hope you enjoyed this. We still laugh about it each Easter. How things have changed!”