bbq: One of my American friends is organising a BBQ party on 4th July. I am thinking to bring a present, or should I just bring food or drinks as well? If I was to bring some dessert, what should I bring? What is specific? Apple pie, anything of this sort? Any suggestions highly appreciated.|||You can either go down the american baking route or bring something very british ! Your friend will probably have a lot of american dishes about so a good old pudding would be lovely. The strawberries are very nice this year and Wimbledon is kicking about so it would be a nice summery touch. Strawberries and cream ! OR, bring something from your own country ( Romania isn't it?) or hubby's ( Germany?) I say Strudel ! STRUDEL !|||I'd bring a dessert. Maybe cookies that are stars and American Flags that are red white and blue. A cake is good, you can get one from a bakery that is decorated. Just ask, they may ask you to bring extra bags of ice (usually needed), some snacks, maybe some drinks. You said one of your American friends, maybe you'd like to bring something from your culture, a food that would be eaten for your independence day.|||No gifts, just food or drinks. I'm having a barbeque on the 4th, also. I asked the invitees to bring their favorite dish. It doesn't need to be 'typical American food' like apple pie- Americans eating apple pie is just a stereotype. If you recall, America is made up of many different cultures, which means that our food selections can get pretty interesting at a barbeque. If you have a favorite dish that you would like to share, take that.|||you can do a flag cake: frost a rectangle cake with vanilla frosting. make a square of blueberries in the upper corner, then make the red stripes out of strawberries. you can make the cupcake version too: frost with vanilla frosting. cover half the batch with blueberries like on the corner of the rectangle cake, and on the other half, make stripes out of small pieces of strawberry.|||My guess is that there will already be a lot of desserts and such. I'd bring deviled eggs. They're really easy, and everyone loves them. :) You just boil eggs, split them down the middle (longways) and take out the yolks. Mix the yolks up in a bowl with Mayonnaise and Mustard (and dill pickle relish if you want) and when it's all evenly mixed and tasting good, you spoon it back into the egg whites where the yolks were to begin with. Then you lightly sprinkle Paprika over all of them, and you're done :D|||if you're feeling creative, i'm sure you could find some type of cool looking 4th of july themed dessert with strawberries and blueberries and such- http://realnobodyslikeus.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d65de53ef00e55367afbb8833-320pi http://www.blisstree.com/sheknowsparties/files/2008/06/img-2089.jpg or if you don't want to do something like that, everyone always love brownies!!|||I would bring a fruit pizza made to look like an American flag. It's a sugar cookie bottom, then a layer of cheesecake filling spread on top, then you put blueberries and strawberries on top to make it look like a flag|||Talk to your friend having the party, what she may want brought. A potato salad or macaroni salad, maybe a baked bean dish. Talk to her, she knows what she needs, and I'm sure she would appreciate the help.|||bring food here are some suggestions of things that you can bring potatoe salad macoroni salad baked beans any kind of pie there's a dessert that's jello mixed with whipped cream that' good corn|||Deviled eggs, watermelon, macaroni salad, ambrosia salad, jello, or something from your home country as long as it's easy to share and serve and tasty.|||Apple pie is all american, you cannot go wrong with that and it's ok if you buy it.|||you should call and ask what they need