Darina Allen: Having a bank holiday barbecue? Try this smash burger recipe

Here’s a taste of some of the recipes in Jim Moore’s, How To BBQ Everything published by Ebury Press. Happy grilling.

In the midst of that crazy April weather, showers, hail, wind, and occasional snatches of warm sunshine, I’ve been dreaming of a barbecue, how crazy is that… My sudden urge to grill is somewhat prompted by Jim Moore’s How To BBQ Everything book that landed on my desk. Jim, who hails from Belfast, is an international barbecue judge and one of the best loved and respected barbecue boys on the UK circuit. He’s been posting his culinary escapades on social media @onlyslagging, since 2011 and now has over 2 million followers, so surely there must be something to look at here.

Sharing his passion for cooking over live fire, he draws his inspiration from his travels to America, Australia, Mexico, the Middle East and Europe, a melting pot of influences that add spice to the recipes so they are not only inspirational but realistic and achievable for the home cook, whether you’re cooking over fire or using a fancy state of the art grill. Time to go rooting in the garage to retrieve the barbecue.