A good quick recipe for BBQ sauce is equal amounts of instant coffee dissolved in warm water mixed with tomato ketchup - try it you will be amazed!

Originally Posted by flynavy

A good quick recipe for BBQ sauce is equal amounts of instant coffee dissolved in warm water mixed with tomato ketchup - try it you will be amazed!

Another couple of good hints for BBQ sauces are honey and Worcestershire sauce mixed with the coffee and Ketchup, or honey and mustard

Originally Posted by eodmatt

I'm starving after reading that. We did a pig roast here a while back. A medium sized porker rubbed all over with local herbs, stomach cavity packed with chopped sugar cane. The whole roasted in a big clay oven on a wooden board. Thats it! I am going out to get summat to eat.

Burgger - now drooling even more than usual. One of the deep joys of living in Balkania near the Serb bit is you can do what I am now going to for lunch - have a bit of fresh suckling pig, cheap beer and cheaper local pear brandy! :D

I note your comments on the pig roast. Doing a whole pig was an expensive option particularly if it was a barbecue. In the market place in Doboj I can buy a 1.5 metre spit complete with holding tines at either end, an electric (car) battery driven motor and a gearing system to power the whole lot up.

Cost is circa 30 euros. Car battery supplied by the purchaser. They use wood rather than charcoal and Mysteron is correct - slightly chewie skin - but crackling it aint

Wittlich in the Mosel area of Germany is the place to visit as they have a pig roasting festerval there in the autum

Porchetta di Arrichia. Now that is something fantastic.

I made a pig roaster at home and we did a 70 pound free range pig for the wifes 40th, it went really well, I was inspired by attending an organised one the year before. I'll stick up pics later. The crackling was finished by basting with honey!