Summer is all about entertaining, whether on the backyard deck or cabin patio. I love the laid back feeling of summer and carry that through to entertaining too. BBQ is the best way to keep food prep and dirty dishes to a minimum, and it also gives you the opportunity to spend more time visiting and less time cooking! I shared some great BBQ prep tips recently at Global Regina Morning News. If you haven’t seen it, you can watch the clip here:
The missing tip in the segment above? Clean-up! Food Network Chef Michael Smith teamed up with Cascade Platinum to share tips on how to make your dinner party (or BBQ!) sparkle, while cutting down your clean up time! My favorite tip from Chef Michael Smith is to clean up as you go. Get the mess out of the way, and load the dishwasher as you prepare dinner (with Cascade Platinum, you don’t need to worry about pre-rinsing – it will clean stuck-on food in one wash!)
Here are my favorite BBQ recipes featured on the blog, clicking the photo will take you to the full recipe:
Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs
Bacon Wrapped Asparagus
Loaded BBQ Potatoes
Thankfully, most of these recipes have minimal dishes to keep you out on the deck socializing and out of the kitchen. Remember to pop the dishes you use into the dishwasher right away, clean as you go, and you won’t be left with a mess at the end of the night!
To help you enjoy more summer BBQ and entertaining and less time spent in the kitchen cleaning, we’re giving one of our readers the opportunity to win THREE tubs of Cascade Platinum (a total prize value of $57!) To enter to win, just enter your name and email address in the form below to get started!
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Going to give the Asparagus recipe a try today!!
Maple salmon is my favorite! It definitely is sticky and messy!
sticky garlic bbq ribs
Definitely my honey garlic bbq ribs & chicken!
slow smoked sticky BBQ ribs
That looks so delicious! Perfect on a hot Summer day with friends and family! My favorite bbq recipe is my homemade gold bbq sauce on baby back ribs!
sticky honey chicken wings
I love honey garlic chicken!
bbq chicken – sticky and messy, but yummy!
I love me some baby back ribs.
Sweet and sticky bbq ribs
i love bbq ribs
BBQ Chicken 🙂
we love bbq chicken
BBQ ribs!
bbq steak with lots of steak sauce
Honey Garlic Chicken because it’s very sticky
The load BBQ potatoes. Wish I’d read this before I made Father’s Day supper.
I love to make sticky bbq ribs which is very messy.
we make a mess, but love, ribs on the bbq
Barbecued ribs, with a home made barbecue sauce.
bbq ribs
Chicken wings!
BBQ Ribs
Maple-glazed salmon. Very messy.
For me its not so messy but I like doing grilled veggie and chicken breast skewers!
Oh ribs is definitely the messiest. I love it.
Garlic BBQ ribs are my favourite
BBQed beef ribs tandoori style which have to be marinated with a wet marinade and eaten by hand.
My favourite barbecue recipe is honey glazed spicy shrimp.
My honey garlic BBQ ribs!
Messy sauced bbq beef ribs!
My BBq mess is always BBq Ribs.
I love BBQ burgers with all the fixings 🙂
Honey Garlic ribs would have to be the messiest or even honey garlic chicken.
Honey Barbeque chicken wings!
bbq chicken wings
it’s the ribs on the grill for sure..
BBQ smothered chicken breast
Ribs
BBQ ribs
Honey garlic ribs is my favourite.
We love honey garlic chicken breasts done on the BBQ!
Ginger honey garlic chicken
It definitely is sticky and messy and thats our favorite BBQ Ribs
got to be ribs!
Honey BBQ ribs – so worth the mess!
Ribs with Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce!
The sticky sauce I put on bbq beef ribs is my messiest recipe.
I like cooking steak with lots of bbq sauce.
I love stick BBQ Ribs … the more sauce, the better!
slow cooked BBQ ribs – very messy/sticky but very yummy!!
BBq ribs
Korean marinated spicy beef!
Honey Garlic chicken wings
Tandoori beef ribs!
BBQ ribs
I love bbq ribs
Honey garlic slow cooked bar BBQ ribs.
BBQ Ribs!
BBQ Beef on bun is my favourite messy recipe.
honey BBQ ribs!
I guess ribs. The sauce is everywhere, but good.
My honey’s fantastic BBQ’d ribs: oooohy, gooey, finger-licking, lip-smacking deliciousness! Serve it with my homemade slow-cooked baked beans and apple-pecan-cabbage slaw and it is an over the top yummy meal!
Ribs and chicken wings with LOTS of BBQ sauce!
We do a marinated chicken breast that is always hard to clean up.
We love BBQing ribs!!
My two fave messy BBQ dishes would be ribs and pork satay.
Definitely the ribs my husband does on the BBQ!
I adore grilled pineapple! My husband loves any bbq’d meat.
that would be my recipe for BBQ chicken-my family loves it
My favorite is bbq chicken with lots of sauce.
Anything that’s cooked on the BBQ.
bbq ribs!
honey garlic bbq ribs
I love bbq ribs. So good, but so messy!
Honey garlic ribs, so messy and so yum!
BBQ Spare Ribs
Souvlaki and lots of Tzatziki mmmmm
Hubby makes the best Honey Garlic BBQ Ribs! We love Cascade in our home and only trust our dirty dishes to Cascade Platinum! Thank you 🙂
Smoked bbq ribs
It would be my messy BBQ ribs recipe.
I love honey garlic chicken.
Mmmmmm Ribs for sure!!
BBQ ribs!
bbq ribs
Ooooey, gooey, honey garlic ribs! Love that kinda messy! 🙂
bbq ribs for sure!
Sweet and sticky baby back ribs are my fave and also my biggest BBQ mess!
The bacon wrapped asparagus looks great!
Just plain saucy ribs hahah
love the bbq ribs
Burgers with bbq sauce
Ribs would be my favourite messy barbecue recipe.
sticky messy bbq wings
I would love the the pizza full of BBQ and chicken
I love classic BBQ burgers
BBQ ribs or for dessert banana boats!
My favourite messy bbq recipe: ribs!
Honey Garlic chicken breasts
Chicken breast with a home made BBQ sauce
I absolutely love bbq ribs, they are amazing!
Loaded baked potatoes are one of my favourite messier dishes. If you bake it all up in the oven the cheesey sticks to the dish and that’s the worse, but you can always top them without a second bake and they’re just as delicious. bacon, broccoli and cheese are my simple and favourite go to’s.
barbequed ribs. thanks
BBQ Chicken Breasts