Sticks & Spice Poolside Grilling Party

Veggies are healthy but can sometimes taste bland. Kick them up a notch with this delicious marinade recipe!

Ingredients

• Canola Oil
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled, coarsely chopped
• 6 fresh rosemary stems
• Skewer Ingredient Prep

Directions

• Pour 1-inch-high amount of canola oil into the marinating container, and stir in remaining ingredients listed in the recipes below.
• Place the skewers, vertically in container, with raw ingredients immersed in the marinade.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate until party time.

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"Mignonette" is a sauce made typically with vinegar, pepper, and herbs and served especially with oysters.

Ingredients

• 1/2 Cup seasoned rice wine vinegar
• 1/4 Cup fresh lime juice
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh mint leave
• 2 tablespoons minced shallot
• 1/4 Teaspoon red pepper flakes to taste
• 1/2 Teaspoon Jamaican rum

Directions

• Mix ingredients together in a small bowl until combined. Cover and refrigerate until party time.
• Note: If seasoned rice wine vinegar is not available, add 1 teaspoon of sugar to regular rice wine vinegar as a substitution -- "seasoned" rice vinegar is sweet.

Prep Work
There's only a little prep work involved the morning of the party.

First, you'll need to cut up and skewer the ingredients, then marinate them in an herb oil mixture. You'll save time on clean up, by marinating the skewers in the container that will be used on the party table.

For a cool presentation, use a square glass vase for the marinade and put the skewers in vertically, sticks up for guests to grab. You'll need 3 vases, for each type of skewer. When you're done with that, whip up the dips and set up the spices!

I've found some incredible spice blends online, and you can't beat the convenience of mail order.

You can offer spice mixtures with the flavors of India, Morocco, Jamaica, Napa Valley, Mexico, and more!

• Pour the spices into small identical dishes. You can match the square design of the cube vases, with square Asian-style dishes, meant for soy sauce.

Dessert
For dessert, swap out the savory for the sweet with an exotic chocolate s'more station.

Simply put skewers, marshmallows, graham crackers, exotic chocolate, and plain candy bars in attractive containers.

Vosges Chocolates makes eclectic combinations that will really wake up your taste buds.

Some of their offerings are ginger, wasabi, and black sesame seeds in dark chocolate, and Indian green cardamom, organic walnuts, and dried plums in Venezuelan chocolate.

Vegetable skewers are easy to prepare and can be grilled to your guests liking.

Ingredients

• Eggplant, zucchini, baby red potatoes

Directions

• Cut eggplant into 1-inch cubes. Slice zucchini into 1-inch rounds. Cut baby red potatoes in half. Thread vegetable pieces on to a skewer tip.

Beef up your meat with this tasty seasoning dip.

Ingredients

• Canola Oil
• 1 Tablespoon sesame oil
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled, coarsely chopped
• 6 fresh basil stems

Directions

• Pour 1-inch-high amount of canola oil into the marinating container, and stir in remaining ingredients listed in the recipes below.
• Place the skewers, vertically in container, with raw ingredients immersed in the marinade.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate until party time.

This dish is super simple to make and tastes great.

Ingredients

• Beef

Directions

• Slice beef into 1/4-inch thick strips. Cut strips into 1-inch pieces and thread on to a skewer tip.

This spicy marinade transforms chicken from blah to brilliant!

Ingredients

• Canola Oil
• 1 Tablespoon pure sesame oil
• 1 2- inch piece fresh ginger root, peeled, coarsely chopped
• 6 fresh cilantro stems

Directions

• Pour 1-inch-high amount of canola oil into the marinating container, and stir in remaining ingredients listed in the recipes below.
• Place the skewers, vertically in container, with raw ingredients immersed in the marinade.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate until party time.