Rib Sandwich Recipe: Kicks McRib In The Ribs
Why wait for the McRib to return when you’ve got an amazing rib sandwich recipe? Learn more about the fabled McRib sandwich while creating one that takes it over the top. Ribs are smoked to perfection before the meat joins homemade pickles, caramelized onions, and custom BBQ sauce on a buttery brioche bun.
Mouthwatering Smoked Pork Belly Bacon Burnt Ends Banh Mi
This rich and flavor packed tested recipe for our smoked pork belly version of the classic Vietnamese banh mì sandwich is sure to make your knees buckle. The recipe hits all the right notes for a perfect banh mì, including succulent BBQ pork belly burnt ends, spicy jalapeños, savory mayo, and tangy pickled veggies.
Melissa Cookston’s Grilled Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Shrimp Recipe
Create an grilled bacon wrapped stuffed shrimp appetizer with only five ingredients thanks to this award winning recipe courtesy of pitmaster Melissa Cookston. Cookston won the 2012 Kingsford Invitational by taking first place in five categories including this delicious bacon wrapped stuffed shrimp recipe.
A Cluckin’ Great Poultry Seasoning Recipe
This is an easy all-purpose spice mix for chicken, turkey, and pork. They sell it in bottles, but you can make it and modify it yourself easily.
Indoor Smoked Ribs Recipe
Here’s how to make ribs in your oven that most folks will think you nursed for hours in the smoker. Just because you don’t have a smoker or a grill or are waiting out a blizzard doesn’t mean that you can’t make tender, juicy ribs indoors with a flavor that might fool you into thinking it was cooked outdoors. This recipe shows you how.
Chinatown Char Siu Ribs Recipe
Everybody loves Chinese restaurant “BBQ” ribs. They have a distinct pork flavor, a glossy sheen that implies the sweet glaze beneath, and a glowing red-pink color that penetrates the surface. Here’s a simple recipe for making Chinatown char siu ribs at home on your grill or in the oven featuring a flavorful marinade.
Double Smoked Ham Recipe
Create the best ham you’ve ever tasted with this ultimate double smoked ham recipe. Ordinary store bought ham is taken over the top by slowly smoking it on the grill. The true star of the show, however, is the sweet and savory glaze composed of apricot preserves, honey, brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire, and more.
Beef Dry Rub Recipe
This flavorful beef dry rub recipe is perfect for seasoning brisket, beef ribs, steak, and more. In Texas, many barbecue joints use plain old salt and pepper, called Dalmatian rub. But beef brisket and beef ribs can handle, and benefit from, a more potent mix of spices. You can make this beef rub in advance and store it.
Grilled Eggplant Caponata Recipe
Grilling the ingredients adds a layer of complexity to caponata, a traditional eggplant based recipe that is especially popular in southern Italy. Grilled caponata is perfect as a sandwich; as an appetizer on crusty bread; as a sauce for grilled seafood, pork chops, or chicken; in pasta; and even on pizza.
Pork Cracklins Recipe
Cracklins, chiccharrons, and grattons are made from pork skins and rinds. Here’s a better way to make them than just frying them the old fashioned way.
Stuffed Italian Sausage Smoke Bomb: The Ultimate Meatloaf Recipe
Here’s a recipe for a killer meatloaf made with Italian sausage, wrapped in bacon, and stuffed with peppers, cheese, and onion. A deconstructed and amped up version of the classic sausage and peppers sandwich, this amped up meatloaf is similar to the popular Bacon Explosion and great on its own, as a sandwich, or served on pasta and topped with marinara sauce.
Canadian And Irish Bacon Recipe
Fans of Canadian bacon will rejoice this recipe for making flavorful smoked pork loin at home. Making Canadian bacon or back bacon is more like curing a ham than making American bacon. Order boneless loin (not tenderloin) if you want to make this. Irish bacon is made like Canadian bacon but without the smoking step.
Hoisin Makes A Sinfully Good Marinade
Add a flavorful Asian twist to pork, chicken, steak, or shrimp with this recipe for an all-purpose Asian style marinade with hoisin sauce. The best thing about Asian style marinades is that soy sauce is salty, so the marinade also works like a brine, and flavors penetrate better than with most marinades.
Are My Ribs Ready Yet?
There are several techniques to tell when your ribs are ready: bend, twist, peek-a-boo, taste, toothpick, popup, and thermometer test. Since ribs come in so many different weights and thicknesses, knowing when they are done is an inexact science but here are some guidelines and techniques that will help make it easier.
Going Whole Hog: What You Need To Know To Smoke Roast A Hog Or Suckling Pig
The recipe for purchasing, preparing, and cooking a whole hog or suckling pig and how to hold a traditional Carolina Pig Picking.