Shortly after we got our kettle Weber we invested in 'The Complete Australian Barbecue Kettle Cookbook', a classic guide to using the barbecue that was first published in the mid-80's and which is still in circulation 25 years and 26 printings later. It's a useful guide but some of the recipes are a little dated, in a wonderful kind of way.
Something that caught my eye early on was 'Dinner in a pumpkin', where you hollow out a pumpkin and use that as both the cooking pot & the bowl. There are breadcrumbs, lentils, onion, chickpeas, beans, tomatoes, brisket, chilli & a few spices stuffed into that 1 dollar pumpkin (got to love the markets...)
After a couple of hours in the kettle it looks like this - unfortunately the outer skin of the pumpkin had split at this point so it started to collapse
and the transfer to the plate proved less than elegant
despite my best attempts to pretty it up
Despite the serving difficulties it still tasted good. Not great and a little bland to the modern palate, but I have rice & chilli-laden plans for the next one.
There are any number of exciting recipes in the book that I'm keen to explore, particularly because half of them involve pork products. I'm particularly looking forward to the 'banana wrapped in bacon'...
Something that caught my eye early on was 'Dinner in a pumpkin', where you hollow out a pumpkin and use that as both the cooking pot & the bowl. There are breadcrumbs, lentils, onion, chickpeas, beans, tomatoes, brisket, chilli & a few spices stuffed into that 1 dollar pumpkin (got to love the markets...)
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