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Vowing that we would not allow the dreary and wet weather to destroy our plans, we were determined that we will have our monthly BBQ.

Thankfully, we were graced with the perfect dry, sunny weather. The afternoon weather was really too hot but I was in fact too pleased to complain.

After lunching at Valentino, we headed to get our miscellaneous ingredients at Finest.
We came back to laze a little before starting preparations at about 5pm.

Since my parents loved the grilled bellpeppers ala antipasti style, J and I prepared to grill them. We also bought the large asparagus so that we could grill them later. Asparagus are good to eat, especially the huge ones.

After reading through Jamie at home, I was inspired to roast the huge red onions with a knob of butter and sprig of rosemary over the bbq. Onions are something that I find it hard to resist. I found these beautiful huge red Austrian onions at the supermarket. Don't you think they are just so lovely? The taste of these roasted onions is as good as I imagined them to be. They deepened into a deep shade of indigo; the layers of skin were soft and almost frail-looking; the taste of the natural sweetness from the onion was way amazing, coupled with the hint of rosemary. What could be better?

Beautiful red onions

Onions ready to be roasted

We also made pan-seared barramundi fish fillet with breadcrumbs and parmasan cheese crust. However,the coating kept falling off and it wasn't a too successful attempt though the taste was alright albeit not fantastic.

Huge bratwrust sausages- bell peppers- salad with loads of parmasan cheese shavings

The other stuff we had were tenderloin steak grilled by my dad with strawberry wine glace sauce. Pretty good. Also, the popular sweet potato loved by my parents, grandma and Grace.

Dinner was lovely with a French-styled champagne brut and Shiraz wine which I still feel is too astringent for my liking.

Our dinner spread-
From left: Pan-seared bread-crumb and parmasan Barramudi fillet with hollandaise sauce, Grilled bell peppers, simple salad with balsamico-olive oil dressing, my grandma's tung-hoon

We ended the BBQ with grilled pineapples! I love pineapples when they are grilled as they release its natural sweetness and juiciness which makes it too good to resist. I'm already looking forward to the next bbq- lamb racks next time!

Burn babies burn!

Nicely grilled pineapples

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