Comments on: How to Host a Barbecue

on 11/22/2005 Treat your yard ahead of time for any kind of bugs. Make sure to get the grass around tables and under chairs. Cleaning dog poop is a MUST before cook outs.

on 11/22/2005 Try a clam bake for a different kind of barbeque. Create a fire pit, burn down to coals and arrange all the seafood between layers of seaweed. Cover with a wet burlap tarp and keep moist. All the food gets cooked at once. Put densest food on the bottom - potatoes, corn on the cob in the husk, etc. The softest food goes on top - clams, scallops, white fish (anything without a shell gets wrapped in tin foil with lemon and butter!). Buy a few whole lobsters for the claws and tails. Jumbo shrimp, kielbasa sausage, oysters and crabs all work great!

on 11/22/2005 Guests love to bring something to a barbecue - so plan ahead to give an answer when they ask what they can bring. Make a list and say "How about A or B?" When they say A, then cross it off your list.

on 11/22/2005 Citronella at all four points. Major bug area here

on 11/22/2005 If you're planning on eating outside be sure to have some of the tables and chairs under shade trees, erected tarps, screen porches and the like in case of inclement weather.

on 11/22/2005 Cut off the ends of the pepper, and cut in half the long way. Remove seeds (they are what is hot!) fill each half with cream cheese, and wrap each half with half a slice of bacon. Use toothpick to secure. Grill on barbeque till bacon is done.