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!

A Stress Free BBQ Christmas Meal

It seems like every year Christmas just sneaks up on us, and 2008 is no exception! Shopping centres are clogged with frenzied shoppers trying to find perfect gifts and fresh food for the special day. With this in mind, the Heat Beads® Team have put together some tips and tools to take the stress out of the upcoming holiday, so that you can cook the perfect turkey!

Click here to view our turkey cooking tips.

Bird Cooking Time Calculator

Not cooking a turkey? Never fear, because Heat Beads® turkey cook time calculator will allow you to roast or smoke any bird to perfection, over live coals.

All you have to do is enter the size of the bird and the time you wish to eat. The calculator will tell you what time to light your Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, how many to use, the total cooking time that is required and how many people you will be able to serve. Click here to use the calculator.

The Heat Beads® Turkey Recipe

Click here to view this very special recipe with mouth-watering stuffing.

Instructional Cooking Video

Cooking the perfect turkey is easy! Just watch the fantastic Heat Beads® instructional video, to see this great recipe in action.

This exclusive premium content video will provide you with all the tips and tricks to cook a succulent turkey and save you time on the special day. Click here to login in to premium content and view the video.

NB: You must be a subscriber to the Heat Beads® Newsletter to access the premium content section. To subscribe, click here.

Why not try our recipe for Glazed Christmas Ham, that will make a fantastic centre piece at your Christmas lunch or dinner?

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).

Only a few weeks and we’re into summer. Time to brush up on your grill skills and clean the BBQ. Here are a few handy articles from our series on the art of char grilling earlier in the year to jog your memories and get the char grilling inspiration flowing!

All the ingredients for a great BBQ

Top 12 BBQ Tips from the experts

How to not get burnt while playing with fire - for an important review
of grilling safety

Top 10 weird and wonderful recipes – for inspiration!

With the launch of the new-look Heat Beads® website also comes the online shopping cart. Click here to stock up on your favourite Heat Beads® products before Christmas and have them delivered to your door.

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.

The National Packaging Covenant has been working towards decreasing the impact of consumer packaging on the environment since its inception in 1999.

According to its website, the National Packaging Covenant is an:
‘initiative by Government and Industry, to reduce the environmental effects of packaging on the Environment. It is designed to minimise the environmental impacts arising from the disposal of used packaging, conserve resources through better design and production processes and facilitate the re-use and recycling of used packaging materials.’

As a current signatory, we are committed to the work of the National Packaging Covenant. The Covenant is achieving some great results with the consumer packaging that was recycled with their help in 2007 being equivalent to:

Camp-oven cooking was taken to another level last weekend with 30-odd teams competing in the Redesdale Tavern Camp Oven Cook-Off, producing dishes that could put gourmet cooking from a professional kitchen to shame.

At 9am the contestants queued to collect the four compulsory ingredients: meat (beef or lamb), carrots, onions and potatoes. Heat Beads^® BBQ Briquettes ensured the camp ovens were the perfect temperature and the cooking creations began at 11am - with contestants vying for prizes such as $700 cash and hampers.At 3pm the first round of judging began, based on the categories of taste, aroma, texture, presentation, innovation and imagination.

When it came time to announce the winners, the tension in the air was palpable. The $700 prize for first place ‘best beef’ went to ‘The Old Manse’ and first place ‘best lamb’ went to ‘The Three Stooges’. The best-decorated campsite went to ‘Cast Iron Chefs’, best damper went to ‘The Black Sheep’ and the best cake went to ‘The Delectable Dames and the Dandy’.