fatvegan

We had the funnest BBQ ever last night. Our wine-quaffing neighbours donated their old BBQ to us because they pitied us our darling little Webster. They must have watched us lose our frail vegie burgers through the holes of the grill designed for steaks. Our vegie sausages dried out, and we never even bothered trying onions.

But now we have a four-burner Jumbuck and a 9kg gas bottle so we can BBQ all night. Martin and I spent an hour or two cleaning it yesterday, and it's looking super posh. We had some folks over, and we cooked tofu and vegie sausages and onion and it was brilliant. Most of the flaking rust come off with the onions, so the sausages and tofu were perfect. And I reckon the more we use it, the less rusty it will be. We were a little doubtful about the rust at first, but I just tried to conjure up comforting images of dad dragging a rusty old BBQ hotplate out of a bush at a nice park. We used a lot of Windex and dishwashing liquid and bleach, although Haley was more worried those than the rust. I reckon we pulled a couple of kilos of rusted BBQ components out of it. I was worried structural or gas-leak-preventing parts would have rusted, but it goes great.

Our neighbours even came round with a bottle of their wine. It was so delicious. Eating a BBQed marinated tofu burger with a glass of gourment wine is as good as it gets. I look forward to many, many future BBQs this summer.