The Ultimate Apple Butter BBQ Sauce

Take your smoked ribs over the top with this recipe for apple butter enhanced Kansas City-style BBQ sauce. This apple butter BBQ sauce would have Adam eating out of Eve’s palm, and sucking on her sauce soaked fingers. Yes, it has lumps. Strain it if you must but it’s best as is.
The Science Of Hamburger Buns

Not just any bun will do. Here are some tips on selecting the right bun for your masterpiece.
Classic Southern Sweet Tea Recipe

In the Southeast, when you ask for tea, people assume you mean iced and sweet, and that’s the way they serve it. Here’s the recipe for making classic Southern sweet tea, always made with real sugar versus artificial sweeteners.
Big Bob Gibson’s Bama Birds With White BBQ Sauce Recipe

Packed full of flavor, this recipe for Alabama white BBQ sauce is the perfect addition to grilled and smoked chicken. Adapted from the original white BBQ sauce that was created by famed Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Que in Decatur, Alabama, this isn’t your ordinary sticky sweet BBQ sauce as it relies on mayonnaise and vinegar.
This Spiedies Recipe Will Have You Kicking Kebabs To The Curb

In Binghamton NY they make spiedies rather than kebabs, and for good reason. They’re better. Typically they are marinated and grilled hunks of lamb or beef. These spiedies are not cooked on skewers, but grilled with onions and peppers. Served rare to medium, the marinade flavor is almost as strong as the meat flavor.
Beer Can Chicken Recipe: There Are Better Ways To Cook Chicken

Beer Can Chicken is not a good way to cook chicken. Here’s why, and how you can make better roast chicken.
Punch Up The Flavor With This Horseradish Cream Sauce Recipe

This creamy mild horsey sauce is great on smoked salmon, baked potatoes, and roast beef sandwiches. We also love it as a dip for chips or carrots.
How To Grill Fire Roasted Red Bell Peppers (Pimentos)

Don’t buy roasted peppers or pimientos when you can make stellar ones at home. Take your pimento cheese, potato salad, harissa, Italian sausage sandwiches, Italian beef sandwiches, omelets, risotto, and so many more over the top with this pimento recipe. The recipe also works for any number of peppers.
Crispy Grilled Cornell Chicken Recipe

If you like grilled chicken with golden crispy skin then you’re about to fall in love with this recipe for crispy grilled Cornell chicken. In New York’s Finger lakes, Bob Baker’s famous Crispy Cornell Chicken recipe is served in every home, every fire department cookout, and little league BBQ and now you can enjoy it!
Grilled Sweet Potato Fries Put Some Smoke Into A Favorite Side Dish

Elevate ordinary fries by grilling them. In this recipe, sweet potatoes are cut into sticks and seasoned with a sweet and spicy blend of brown sugar, chipotle powder, herbs, and spices. Then they are grilled until smoky, golden brown, and crisp. Yum.
The Ultimate Diner Burger Recipe (a.k.a. The Smash Burger)

Create the skinny, crispy edged burgers that you love at diners with this simple recipe for the Wimpy burger. Infinitely better than any mass produced quarter pounder, these homemade diner-style burgers are small disks, 4 ounces or less, pressed flat and cooked on a griddle to maximize the flavor and crispness.
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.
The Science Of Sugars, Syrups, Sweeteners, And Sugar Substitutes

Find out everything you need to know about sucrose, fructose, and glucose, as well as how to cook with different sugars, syrups, and artificial sweeteners, including granulated sugar, brown sugar, turbinado, demerara, Barbados, muscovado, and more. Plus a handy guide to the stages of sugar syrup for candy making.
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.