Make your own kabobs. Marinate a bowl of beef cubes, a bowl of chicken chunks, a bowl with jumbo shrimp and a bowl of veggies cut into large bite-size pieces. Then put out with a pile of bamboo skewers. and some colored markers. People take a skewer, color the end with a marker color of their choice (so they know which is theirs), fill it up and toss it on the grill.

Make a big bowl of your favorite rice pilaf (I like to cook some of the marinade and then add that and small diced veggies like are in the kabob mix, like red peppers, onions,etc).

Add some marinated salad (I make a cucumber and tomato salad in vinaigrette) and maybe a green salad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sixth grade daughter has become vegetarian. I would like you to serve something with protein that she can eat please. (I have no idea what that might be, but hope you do.)

Hmmm.
Nuts. Jar of peanut butter.
Soy-k-bobs.

Please don't serve these, my child is allergic to nuts and soy. How could you be so insensitive?!?

Someone answer the pasta salad question. Please

Anonymous wrote:My sixth grade daughter has become vegetarian. I would like you to serve something with protein that she can eat please. (I have no idea what that might be, but hope you do.)

Hmmm.
Nuts. Jar of peanut butter.
Soy-k-bobs.

Anonymous wrote:I am making slow cook Barbacoa because I will be gone most of the weekend at sports. I will marinade some chicken also and grill it and cut into strips.

Guests will make their own soft taco. (barbacoa, chicken, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, onions, peppers)
Corn on the cob
Chips with salsa, guacamole, cheese
Fruit platter

Popsicle lots of them
beer/wine/1 "fancy" drink (coconut vodka, coconut water, splash of sprite and pineapple juice)

Sounds great!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean your cook-out? At a barbecue, one serves barbecue (ie, slow cooked, smoked meat). If you're looking for a good non-burger cookout item, I suggest nice grilled sausages served with saltines and cheddar slices, shrimp and chicken kabobs (peppers, red onions, tomatoes, meat), and soy and teriyaki marinated beef skewers (like satay).

Were you trying to start a north-versus-south flame war, or are you sincerely unaware that the overwhelming majority of the United States uses "barbecue" in the same way as OP?

I'm aware, just trying to correct the majority who use the term 'barbecue' incorrectly ... in an etymological sense.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue

You can't "correct the majority" about the use of a term because the majority is correct by definition about usage, regardless of a word's etymology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean your cook-out? At a barbecue, one serves barbecue (ie, slow cooked, smoked meat). If you're looking for a good non-burger cookout item, I suggest nice grilled sausages served with saltines and cheddar slices, shrimp and chicken kabobs (peppers, red onions, tomatoes, meat), and soy and teriyaki marinated beef skewers (like satay).

Were you trying to start a north-versus-south flame war, or are you sincerely unaware that the overwhelming majority of the United States uses "barbecue" in the same way as OP?

I'm aware, just trying to correct the majority who use the term 'barbecue' incorrectly ... in an etymological sense.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue

We southerners have more than our share of improper colloquialisms and misused words (I called every soda a "Coke" until I was 30!) but we do know the difference between a barbecue and a grill/cookout!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean your cook-out? At a barbecue, one serves barbecue (ie, slow cooked, smoked meat). If you're looking for a good non-burger cookout item, I suggest nice grilled sausages served with saltines and cheddar slices, shrimp and chicken kabobs (peppers, red onions, tomatoes, meat), and soy and teriyaki marinated beef skewers (like satay).

Were you trying to start a north-versus-south flame war, or are you sincerely unaware that the overwhelming majority of the United States uses "barbecue" in the same way as OP?

I'm aware, just trying to correct the majority who use the term 'barbecue' incorrectly ... in an etymological sense.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue

I am making slow cook Barbacoa because I will be gone most of the weekend at sports. I will marinade some chicken also and grill it and cut into strips.

Guests will make their own soft taco. (barbacoa, chicken, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, onions, peppers)
Corn on the cob
Chips with salsa, guacamole, cheese
Fruit platter

Popsicle lots of them
beer/wine/1 "fancy" drink (coconut vodka, coconut water, splash of sprite and pineapple juice)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make-your-own tacos/fajitas with chicken and steak you grill and slice. Mexican street corn with paprika instead of cayenne. Chips, salsa, guac.

Not for a Memorial Day BBQ. Mac and cheese and fruit for kids.

lol wut

I wondered about this too.

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean your cook-out? At a barbecue, one serves barbecue (ie, slow cooked, smoked meat). If you're looking for a good non-burger cookout item, I suggest nice grilled sausages served with saltines and cheddar slices, shrimp and chicken kabobs (peppers, red onions, tomatoes, meat), and soy and teriyaki marinated beef skewers (like satay).

Were you trying to start a north-versus-south flame war, or are you sincerely unaware that the overwhelming majority of the United States uses "barbecue" in the same way as OP?

My sixth grade daughter has become vegetarian. I would like you to serve something with protein that she can eat please. (I have no idea what that might be, but hope you do.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make-your-own tacos/fajitas with chicken and steak you grill and slice. Mexican street corn with paprika instead of cayenne. Chips, salsa, guac.

Not for a Memorial Day BBQ. Mac and cheese and fruit for kids.

lol wut

Do you mean your cook-out? At a barbecue, one serves barbecue (ie, slow cooked, smoked meat). If you're looking for a good non-burger cookout item, I suggest nice grilled sausages served with saltines and cheddar slices, shrimp and chicken kabobs (peppers, red onions, tomatoes, meat), and soy and teriyaki marinated beef skewers (like satay).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No pasta salad. We have been through this. Jesus Christ.

Heh heh. I paid full freight for that pasta salad!

and so it begins...