My group wants to have a spring barbecue.
Torres Viña Sol Rosé 2008 (£4.79, down from £5.99 until 21 April, Waitrose; 13% abv) Dry, with vigorous flavour and good weight, you could get through a lot of this garnacha-based rosé at a spring barbecue.
But the pink-slime furor "dramatically reduced the demand for all ground-beef products" before AFA could take advantage of spring barbecue season, according to the filing.
The backyard barbecue sprang, as certainly as petunias, from those tiny, tidy estates.
His annual White Party in the spring and his Plantation Barbecue in the fall, when guests arrive wearing hoop skirts and carrying fringed parasols, are major social events on the island.
SOUND LEVEL Pleasant RECOMMENDED DISHES pork and cabbage soup, chicken and corn soup, egg drop, won ton, hot and sour soups, beef and tomato soup, barbecue ribs, spring roll, shrimp toast, chicken soong, veal Manchurian, General Tso's chicken, orange flavored beef, lobster in garlic sauce, beef with broccoli, moo goo gai pan, mandarin delight.
An entire side industry has sprung up offering aspiring barbecue champions short cuts to stardom, from sauces and cookbooks to prep classes and custom-made smokers.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Crayfish spring rolls, grilled duck sausage, barbecue chicken quesadillas, mussels, grilled portobello, crab cake, Chilean sea bass, rock shrimp salad, meat loaf, sirloin, short ribs, bacon-wrapped prawns, all desserts.
It's a great place to catch a breath, whether in the seven-acre Big Spring Gardens for a hearty barbecue under the tall pine trees, or at the Buckhorn for a rustic night's stay and a huge burger.
Amid the munching and the sipping, children will play ball hockey with plastic sticks and the music of Bruce Springsteen will drift like barbecue smoke through the sweet spring air.
And people are out there buying that barbecue grill or that new spring outfit they wanted.
