Let an Online Seafood Market Cater Your Graduation Barbecue

School’s out forever! Alice Cooper’s blaring and you’ve got the grill fired up to celebrate your graduation. Skip the boring hot dogs, burgers and chicken wings at your graduation party and serve up food that will really set your barbecue apart from the rest. Check out the ocean’s bounty to spark your cookout menu. Not anywhere near an ocean? Don’t worry. You can buy swordfish steaks, fresh albacore, diver scallops and just about anything else the sea has to offer from an online seafood market. Check out these suggestions for making your graduation barbecue totally sea-licious.

Swordfish Kabobs

Just because you buy swordfish steaks doesn’t mean you have to grill fresh swordfish that way. Cut the swordfish into 1-inch chunks, marinate the cubes in lime, garlic and cilantro, then thread them onto skewers with onion wedges, mushrooms and pineapple chunks. Brush with lime-garlic marinade during grilling and serve with a piquant fruit salsa on the side. Totally yummy!

Skewered Salmon

Skewers are always a great hit at barbecues. They’re easy to cook and even easier to eat. But the chicken, beef and pork on skewers with tomatoes, peppers and onions is just more of the same-old-same-old. Spark up your graduation party menu with barbecued king salmon and fruit skewers. Just buy king salmon in season at an online seafood market. You can usually get salmon steaks and salmon filets, but if you poke around a bit, you may find a place to buy seafood online that offers cut up salmon chunks. Mix together lime juice, olive oil, honey, minced garlic and finely minced chives. Toss fresh king salmon chunks with the marinade and thread them onto a skewer with chunks of mango, fresh peach, pineapple and pepper. Grill over hot coals until the salmon is just translucent.

Grilled Diver Scallops on Rosemary Skewers

Skewers can do more than hold your food together. Grill diver scallops on rosemary sprigs for flavor that infuses the delicate flesh from the inside out. Just strip the leaves off the bottom six inches of each rosemary sprig, but leave the tops leafy. Put the sprigs in water for about 20 minutes to soak. Meanwhile, chop the rosemary leaves, and mix with olive oil, salt and pepper. Combine the marinade with the scallops and let them chill in the refrigerator for about half an hour. Thread three diver scallops onto two rosemary skewers held close together. Grill over medium-high coals for 2 to 3 minutes on each side and serve on a bed of rice.

Note: make sure you get dry scallops when you order. If you don’t, your scallops will end up shrunken and dry on the grill.

Your graduation day is something special, and your celebration barbecue should be, too. Make your cookout one that stands out. Order fresh seafood from an online seafood market and grill with the freshest summer produce you can find.