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No More Ordinary Salad: Grilled Apples Take Green Salads Over The Top

Grilled apple slices and red grapes on a bed of lettuce

This Autumn green salad with grilled apples recipe is certain to be a hit at Thanksgiving or any backyard get together. Autumn is apple time, and apples are great on a salad. Grilling them just adds excitement. You can prepare this recipe well in advance and assemble it at the last minute.

Capture The Essence of Summer With This Caprese Tomato Salad Recipe

Parmesan cheese and basil leaves adorn red tomato slices on a white plate.

Caprese salad is the world’s best use of tomatoes and possibly the world’s best salad but should only be made with the best and freshest components because there is no place to hide subpar ingredients. This classic summer dish from the Island of Capri off the west coast of Italy is the essence of August on a plate.

New Mexico Green Chile Salsa For The Ultimate Burger

green chile cheeseburger.

Green chile salsa takes ordinary burgers and makes them extraordinary. Green chile cheeseburgers can be found throughout New Mexico, featuring a serious dollop of a green chile salsa and slice of melted cheese to hold it in place. Here’s an amazing recipe for making a delicious multipurpose green chile salsa.

Pickled Chicago (Pickled Ramps) Recipe

slender green ramps with liquid and whole spices in mason jar

Sweet, sour, tangy pickled onions or ramps are a great relish on the side, or topping on BBQ and grilled foods. Ramps are much smaller than leeks, more like scallions, and are most tender and tasty in spring. Like scallions, served raw, they add a pungent bite to many dishes but they truly shine when pickled.

Quick Pickled Onions: Bold And Zesty And Fast

peeling red onion

Add a zesty bite to sandwiches, burgers, salads, and more with this simple recipe for crisp and flavorful pickled red onions. The recipe, which can be made in only 30 minutes, also serves as a great base for countless other types of pickles including cucumbers, scallions, ramps, leeks, sweet peppers, and green beans.

Grilled Eggplant Parmesan Recipe

Discs of eggplant topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella.

If you like bland restaurant eggplant parmesan then our grilled version will blow you away. By skipping the deep fryer and hitting the grill, the eggplant’s natural flavor remains intact while also adding a nuttiness and sweetness. Add to that real Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and fresh tomatoes and you’ve got a hit.

Oktoberfest Hot German Potato Salad Is A Hot Take On A Popular Side Dish

German potato salad

German potato salad is sweet and sour, spicy, savory, rich, meaty, and warm all the way down. It’s perfect for those chilly fall tailgates. Some folks think that the concept of potato salad originated in Germany, though this version isn’t common in Germany, so it most likely was developed by German American immigrants.

Grilled Eggplant Caponata Recipe

Eggplant caponata in a bowl and on a piece of tasted bread.

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.

Dehydrating Meats, Peppers, Tomatoes, Fruits, Etc.

smoked grape tomatoes

Beef jerky, chipotle chilies, and smoke-dried tomatoes taste fantastic. To make them, you need to dehydrate them. Learn about which foods you can dehydrate in a smoker for extra smoke flavor and which foods dehydrate best in an indoor electric dehydrator. Hint: kale chips don’t work as well on a smoker.

Pesto Potato Salad Recipe

Pesto potato salad on a plate.

It’s time to rethink serving ordinary potato salad as a side dish at your next BBQ and grilling cookout thanks to this delicious recipe for pesto potatoes. Pesto is a savory pasty green sauce that traditionally includes basil leaves, olive oil, plenty of garlic, pine nuts or walnuts, and parmesan cheese.

Smoked Home Made Pastrami Recipe

Pastrami Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut and Swiss cheese.

If you’ve ever wondered how to make pastrami then we’ve got you covered. Moist, tender, and full of flavor, this is the ultimate smoked homemade pastrami recipe. So what is pastrami? Simply put, it’s Jewish barbecue, i.e. corned beef that has been smoked. This is about as close to Katz’s pastrami recipe as you’ll get!

Grilled Caramelized Onion Pizza, An Outdoor Twist On French Pissaladiere

caramelized onion pizza

A French twist on traditional Italian pizza, the pissaladiere packs a ton of flavor in the form of caramelized onions, olives, garlic, anchovies, and herbs. Taking it one step further, this recipe for the classic pissaladiere (sans sauce and fromage) is cooked on the grill, rendering it perfectly crisp and smoky.