St Patricks Day and the French Dinner

This past week my first group of classes came to an end. I had my first exam in Combustion and the Environment. Along with everyone else in my class I found it to be very difficult and we are hoping that the professor will in some way curve it. It also means that starting this week I will have my next round of classes which includes thermal stress and energy and the environment in addition to the continuation of my ISCAN course. The project is moving along. We are now into the computer modeling of a single bladed VAWT as well as attempting to submit our plans for the model to the lab so they can build our prototype. There is a 4 week backlog so in order to do our tests we need to get this done as fast as possible.
Thursday as you know was St Patricks day. Christine from my collegium is the only Irish we had and wanted to make corned beef and potatoes. I agreed that it would be nice so I joined in as well as a few others. Unfortunately the grocery store did not have corned beef so we had to get another cut of beef which was not as soft and definitely more fatty. However the dinner came out great especially the Soda bread which was fantastic. The most exciting part however was the left overs and the prospect of corned beef and hash for breakfast the next few days. In fact it was so good when I made it on friday that I repeated it again on sunday.
On saturday night I got to enjoy a lovely french dinner. After the success of our pizza filled italian dinner a few weeks ago we decided since there are so many french that we should have a french dinner. So that is what we enjoyed this weekend. It was a five course meal starting with two types of quiche as an appetizer. Then we hit the entree which was more or less the filling of a chicken pot pie and was absolutely delicious combined with a baguette to soak up all the sauce. Round three was a palette cleansing lettuce salad with a french mustard and oil dressing.  The next round was much anticipated by all. It was cheese and baguettes. For cheese the was bleu, brie, goat, and  camembert. It was very delicious and was well complimented by some red wine. Finally we had dessert which consisted of brownies, cookies, an apple pie and Charlotte cake (fluffy pieces of breadlike crust with chocolate and pear on the inside). Needless to say we were stuffed. We finished the night with some ping pong and a game of salad bowl.
All through the night people were asking when the American Dinner would be. I told them since everyone wants me to grill probably in May. The first dinner had 18 guests and this one had 25 so i am guessing by my turn it will be in the mid 30s. So if anyone has suggestions for food to go with Hamburgers or something like that please tell me. I was thinking of maybe some type of kebabs. I will absolutely NOT make and pasta, egg, or potato salad because I hate all those cold mayonaisey salads. I was thinking also perhaps some baked macaroni in cheese would be good. Unfortunately my barbecue supplies are limited here and if I wanted to make real barbecue food like ribs or pulled pork I couldnt because they do not have what I need at the stores  so I may have to be creative. I would love your suggestions though.
I will try to be more frequent with my posts, sorry.