Plenty of great BBQ’s are assured this Christmas at the home of Maddy Brown from Claremont in Western Australia, winner of our November BBQ Recipe Competition. Maddy dazzled us with her recipe for Chilli Ginger and Lime Salmon - doesn’t it look delicious. Test it out yourselves at home.

The brand new Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ is on its way to you Maddy. Maddy tells us her old BBQ was really on its last legs, so the Entertainer couldn’t be going to a better home!

Chilli Ginger and Lime Salmon

Ingredients

Salmon Steaks

Stones Green Ginger Wine

Red and Green Chillies, diced

1 Fresh Lime

3 Lime leaves, shredded

Method

Marinate salmon steaks in Stones green ginger wine, diced red and green chilli, the juice of a fresh lime and 3 shredded lime leaves.

Light up the coals and when they glow, its time to go! Cook salmon ’till beautifully griddle marks appear on the outside, but still succulent on the inside.

Enjoy!

To celebrate the launch of our new website, we are offering our BBQ News subscribers the chance to win a brand new Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ!

Get in quick; the first 20 current subscribers and 20 new subscribers to enter will be in the running for the prize. All you have to do is send us your favourite char grill BBQ Recipe* along with a photo of your char grilled creation cooked on Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, whether its on a camp oven, BBQ, Spit, Cobb cooker or even a tyre rim!! Email your entry to heatbeads_news@auschar.com.au. (The images must a minimum of 400kb and maximum of 2MB).

We are always looking out for new, original and inventive recipes (come on guys, get creative - no copy and pasting!). This could be your 15 minutes of fame with the winning recipe featured as our recipe of the month.

Please remember, you must be a BBQ News subscriber to enter, click here to subscribe.

* The Heat Beads® Company will retain unlimited use of all recipes entered in the competition and these may be included in the Recipes section of the Heat Beads® website, blog, or for various marketing activities (entrants will be acknowledged).

Great sporting events mean a great excuse for a BBQ! The AFL Grand Final this weekend and the NRL Grand Final and Bathurst 1000 just around the corner. Fire up the barbie and enjoy the fun with family and friends. While you’re at it, why not make a video and enter our spring competition?

To celebrate the launch of the new Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ, to be released in Australia in November 2008, the Heat Beads® team is giving you a special opportunity to win one of these great units, just in time for Summer!

Simply upload a four minute video of you or your friends BBQ’ing your favourite recipe on Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes to YouTube - we’ll be looking for the best footage of your delicious recipes actually cooking over the Heat Beads® briquette’s, lots of fun and good humour, and of course your comment about why you love to cook over Heat Beads®! Then you’ll be in the running to be one of three winners of a Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ valued at $499.

There will also be three Heat Beads® Prize Packs on offer for the close runners up containing Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, a Heat Beads® Quickstart Chimney and Heat Beads® Drip Trays!

What you need to do:
Include footage of a bag of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes in your video. MAKE SURE you tag your video with these keywords so we can find it on YouTube:
* How to BBQ
* BBQ
* Barbecue
* Barbeque
* Grill
* Heat Beads® briquettes

The deadline for entries is Monday October 13. Winners will be notified via their YouTube profiles and the winning entries will be posted to the Heat Beads® Blog, Sizzle.

To be eligible for this competition, you must be a Heat Beads® BBQ News subscriber. Click here to subscribe.

Congratulations to all our entrants in the Steven Raichlen Book Competition - we received some brilliant entries and these will be featured on our Sizzle blog and on the website in the coming months:

Winner: J. Collins

Finalists: P. Booker, D. Aitchison, L. Bree and V. Hawkins.

Join the fun and be one of ten lucky BBQ News subscribers to win a Winter Warmer pack of the latest DVD’s and CD’s.
Get cosy and warm while you watch four of the latest blockbuster movies on DVD - Atonement, Southland Tales, American Gangster and Golden Age, and four of the latest CDs from popular artists such as Brian McFadden, Vanessa Amorosi, Mika and Rihanna!

How to win
To be in the running, all you have to do is be one of the first 100 subscribers to complete our quick Heat Beads® Survey. You will then be entered into the draw automatically! The winners will be notified by email by 20th May 2008.

It is a time-honoured tradition in backyards, and at parks and beaches across Australia, to hear the sizzle of a barbecue, the smell of sausages, seafood, steak and other delectable offerings wafting from the char grill. One man eager to learn about this tradition and advancements of cooking over live hot coals and BBQ briquettes in modern Australian cuisine is the American grilling expert, Steve Raichlen. He hits our shores next week to learn about the Australian char grilling tradition as part of research for his new book, Planet Barbeque - travels on the world’s barbecue trail.

Raichlen is the author of the international best selling Barbecue Bible and How to Grill and host of the Barbecue University television show on American Public Television. He is author of 28 books in total (which have been translated into 12 languages), and has also defeated the Iron Chef Roksbura Michiba in a barbecue battle on Japanese television.

In celebration of Raichlen’s arrival in Australia, the Heat Beads® Company is offering one lucky reader the chance to win a set of his barbecue books. Click here to enter - include your name and email address, and in 30 words tell us why you love to char grill over Heat Beads® BBQ briquettes. The winner will be notified by email toward the end of February.

Heat Beads® briquettes brings you two sizzling summer BBQ competitions - enter now!

Competition #1 - Best Char-grill Recipe: Win a Weber Kettle BBQ and one year’s supply (24 x 4kg bags) of Heat Beads® briquettes
Entries close: Wednesday 28th November, 2007

As part of the 6th annual Triple R Melbourne BBQ Day, sponsored by Heat Beads® briquettes, we’re searching for Australia’s Best Char-grill Recipe.

Do you have the secret? Enter your recipe here.

The top three entries will be cooked for all to enjoy at BBQ Day by chef extraordinaire Craig Penglase from the Prince Hospitality Group (Circa and The Stokehouse), and the Heat Beads® team of char-grilling experts.

The winner will be decided by a judging panel of celebrity chefs, along with votes from Triple R listeners.

Bask in the glory
As well as scoring a brand new Weber, plus enough Heat Beads® briquettes to keep it fired up for the coming year, as the winner you’ll be hailed a BBQ expert during Triple R’s live broadcast from BBQ Day (Cam Smith’s ‘Eat It’ program).

Now that story will be a sure-fire BBQ stopper!

Submit your recipe now.*

*Triple R and the Heat Beads® Company will retain unlimited use of all recipes entered in the competition and these may be included in the Recipes section of the Heat Beads® website, blog, or for various marketing activities (entrants will be acknowledged).

Competition #2 - Win a Summer BBQ Entertainment Pack
Entries close: Friday 14th December, 2007

We have ten prize packs to give away containing everything the BBQ connoisseur needs, just in time for summer.

Each includes the following BBQ essentials:
Heat Beads® BBQ Quickstart Chimney (get your BBQ started faster!)
Heat Beads® BBQ accessories - Tongs, fork, spatula, grill brush and drip trays
Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes
Heat Beads® Firelighters
Heat Beads® Citronella products

Enter your details here for your chance to win.

Good luck!

To celebrate the DVD release of Ocean’s 13, the Heat Beads® company and Village Roadshow Pictures are giving all current BBQ News subscribers the chance to win one of 10 packs containing Ocean’s 13 on DVD along with James Blunt’s new album “All The Lost Souls” (featuring the single ‘1973’), with thanks to our friends at Warner Music.

James Blunt was the highest selling artist of 2006 with his debut “Back to Bedlam” album selling over 11 million copies worldwide, topping the charts in 15 countries, including 12 weeks at #1 in Australia. He’s back with his new release “All the Lost Souls” including the new single ‘1973′. http://www.jamesblunt.com/

Ocean’s 13 - It’s bolder. Riskier. The most dazzling heist yet. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and more re-team with director Steven Soderbergh for a split-second caper that stacks the deck with wit, style and cool. Ocean’s 13 is available to rent or buy on DVD, NOW!
Visit: http://www.oceans13.com.au/

To win, simply send through a list of the top 3 tunes you like to listen to at a backyard BBQ. For a few ideas, music lovers may also like to check out the Heat Beads® team’s thoughts of the best songs to fire up a barbecue.

Entries close on Friday 9th November with winners drawn at random on November 13th and notified by email. Prizes will be delivered within 21 days.

With winter upon us, the Heat Beads® team reminds the BBQ community that now is as good a time as ever to enjoy Australia’s favourite BBQ Briquettes. Whether it’s basking in the glow of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes in a firepit or brazier or preparing a roast or weekend BBQ meal, Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes deliver a consistent, even heat that lasts for hours.

Win!

To keep you in the BBQ mood, the Heat Beads® team in conjunction with Jim Beam is giving current and new subscribers the chance to win one of 10 Winter Warmers Packs. Each prize consists of a Heat Beads® Quickstart Chimney, two 4kg bags of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, a box of Firelighters, a roasting and drip tray as well as a sensational Jim Beam Party Pack. The Jim Beam Party Pack includes a bottle of gourmet marinade, their award winning BBQ sauce and a bottle of Jim Beam’s famous steak sauce, each with the genuine Jim Beam flavour in every bottle. There are also cut out recipe cards and a branded basting brush included.

To win a Winter Warmer Pack, all you need to do is be one of the first five subscribers to email your favourite winter barbecue recipe.

There’s also a second chance to win through our new subscriber draw. Encourage a friend to subscribe (just use the forward to a friend link below) and both of you will go into the draw to win one of five Winter Warmer Packs on offer until July15th.

The barbecue season has arrived and here are some fun ways for you to kick it off with Heat Beads^® BBQ briquettes:

Triple R BBQ Day - Meloburne, Sunday 3rd December 2006

The Triple R Melbourne BBQ Day, sponsored by Heat Beads^® is on again at CERES in Brunswick, on Sunday December 3rd 2006. If you’re in Melbourne, come and enjoy the live broadcast and celebrate everything we love about the great Aussie BBQ and live music!

If you’re not in Melbourne, don’t despair! You can still join in the festivities! Anyone Australia-wide can enter the Triple R Best Char Grill Recipe competition for the chance to win a Weber and one year’s supply of Heat Beads^® BBQ Briquettes!

Enter Now! The Triple R Best Char-Grill Recipe Competition

Do you have the winning recipe cooked over Heat Beads^® BBQ Briquettes?

To be in the running entries must be received by Friday 24th November 2006.

The winner will be announced live at Triple R’s BBQ Day on the Eat It program, hosted by Cam Smith.

5th Annual Triple R Melbourne BBQ Day

When: Sunday 3rd December 2006, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: CERES COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT PARK, 8 Lee Street, Brunswick East, Victoria

And if that’s not enough, tell us why you love cooking with Heat Beads^® BBQ Briquettes to WIN a Summer BBQ Entertainment Pack! There are only 10 popular packs up for grabs!

Trimph at Heathdale in the battle of the Barbecues

The Broadmeadows Turkish Group impressed celebrity chef and judge Gabriel Gate at the Heathdale BBQ Festival in Werribee, Victoria in October. The deserving winner of the Heat Beads^® Char Grill competition was thrilled with the Weber prize and its supply of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes!