Casein Free BBQ

One of our features this month is an article on Backyard BBQ.  As we looked over the menu, it occurred to me that almost everything on the list was also casein free!  If you’re living on a gluten and casein free diet, there’s no need to avoid America’s favorite summer pastime, the summer BBQ.

To illustrate how glorious this can be, we’ve duplicated our Backyard BBQ menu - gluten and casein free.

Backyard BBQ

There are a few important tips to creating the perfect slow cooked BBQ.  For complete instructions for barbecuing pork butt, ribs, chicken and salmon, visit our archived cooking class from August 2001: True BBQ.

Backyard BBQ Menu

(All the recipe below can be located in our Recipe Archives)

Corn Chips with Bean Dip
Pancetta Wrapped Pears
Smoked Salmon Platter with Tofutti Better than Cream Cheese
Pasta Salad with Corn Chipotle Dressing
Summer Coleslaw
Husk Boiled Corn 
Fresh watermelon slices
True BBQ Pork Butt
Beer Can Chicken
True BBQ Salmon
Peach Cobbler
Black & Blue Cobbler

Preparing the meal:

The day before:

• Make Bean dip up to bake step, refrigerate
• Make Summer Coleslaw, refrigerate
• Make and add rubs, (if using) to meat & poultry
• Make BBQ sauces, if using, refrigerate
• Calculate BBQ time for meat, poultry and salmon

(Approximately 2 hours)

The morning of:

• Remove meat & poultry from refrigerator and bring to room temperature
• Soak wood chips
• Prepare BBQ
• Place meats, chicken and salmon in BBQ at appropriate times
• Cut pears and wrap with pancetta, refrigerate
• Prepare smoked salmon platter, refrigerate
• Make pasta salad, refrigerate
• Cut watermelon slices, refrigerate
• Make cobblers up to baking, refrigerate

(Approximately 3 hours)

All day:

• Check BBQ temperature and maintain 200-250 degrees

When guests arrive:

• Serve Smoked Salmon plate with gluten-free crackers (we like Blue Diamond Pecan)
• Bake Bean Dip, serve with corn chips
• Grill Pancetta Wrapped Pears , serve

(Approximately 45 minutes)

30 minutes before serving dinner:

• Baste meats and chicken with sauce
• Boil corn in husks (4-5 minutes)

When ready for dinner:

• Serve: Pasta salad
• Summer Coleslaw
• Corn on the Cob
• Watermelon slices
• Cut meat, chicken and salmon into serving portions
• BBQ Sauce

After dinner:

• Bake cobblers

(Approximately 1 hour)

- Chef Yvonne