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Simple Boston Baked Beans Recipe

Boston baked beans with bacon in a red dutch oven.

Looking for the perfect side dish for your next cookout? Nothing screams BBQ more than a sticky and smoky bowl of Boston baked beans. It was in Beantown that the notion of mixing dried beans with molasses was conceived. This flavorful recipe is an ode to the original while offering suggestions for amping them up.

The Ultimate Guide To Making Roasted Nuts And Snack Mix At Home

rosemary roasted nuts

Spicy, savory, sweet roasted nuts are always a hit as a snack. Serve them straight, mixed with dried fruit, or sprinkled as garnish on your favorite dishes. If you don’t have a smoker or grill you can make most of these recipes just fine in your indoor oven, though they will lack the deep smoky flavor of the grill.

Hoisin Makes A Sinfully Good Marinade

Grilled and sliced ribeye steak marinated in hoisin 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.

Columbia Gold, A South Carolina Mustard BBQ Sauce Recipe

Mustard BBQ sauce in a clear jar with a spoon resting against the jar.

In Mid-South Carolina, from Columbia to Charleston on the coast, BBQ sauce is yellow. HereÍs a quick and easy recipe for classic South Carolina mustard sauce. For those who are only familiar with traditional red BBQ sauces, yellow mustard sauce can be jarring at first — at least until that first flavorful bite.

Hit A Home Run With This Homemade Ballpark Mustard Recipe

Hot dog with mustard on striped plate.

Commercial mustard is cheap and plentiful, but it can also lack flavor and depth. Here is the recipe for a winning basic Ballpark mustard that can be customized for your individual tastes by adding other spices, sweeteners, herbs, and flavorings. Serve it at your next cookout and you’re sure to receive rave reviews.

How To Know When Ribs Are Done

A rack of smoked ribs being held by tongs.

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.

Better-Than-Steakhouse Grilled Steak Recipe

Grilled tomahawk ribeye steak on a white plate with a bottle of wine and plate of tomatoes

Create grilled steaks as good or better than they do in the best expensive steakhouses with this comprehensive how-to and recipe. From selecting the right cut and beef grade to smoking and searing on the grill, you’ll be grilling up mouthwatering steaks for your family and guests in no time!

Benchmark Barbecue Sauces And How To Make Them

uncle sam pouring sauce over images of the US states

The US has several distinct barbecue sauce styles from Kansas City to South Carolina, Eastern Carolinas, Western Carolinas, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Hawaii, Florida, Memphis and more. Here is a description of them, and links to buy them, and recipes.

Texas BBQ Sauce Recipe

BBQ meat being brushed with a Texas BBQ sauce using a mop-style brush.

In Texas the traditional barbecue sauce recipe is usually more like a tomato soup, thin and spicy, it penetrates the meat.

The Science of Beans

multicolor beans

Beans are a cheap, easy, flexible source of protein, and there are a million things you can do with them once you understand these basic concepts.

Tuscan Marinated Ribs Griglia Recipe

Two full racks of Tuscan ribs on a plate.

Ribs have never tasted better than with this tested recipe for Tuscan Marinated Ribs. In Italy pork on the grill, carne di maiale alla griglia, is extremely popular as are fresh herbs. This recipe features a flavorful herbed oil and vinegar marinade and roasting without smoke. The results are complex and exotic.

Chinese Five Spice Ribs Recipe

Plate of sauced pork riblets topped with sliced scallions.

Perfectly flavored with five spice powder then smoked until tender, these Asian inspired pork ribs are a sure fire hit for dinner or cut into smaller riblets for a mouthwatering party appetizer. In this recipe, the Chinese five spice riblets are marinated and grilled but they can also be cooked in the deep fryer for extra crunch.

The Science of Clams

clam

There are many varieties of clam, and many ways they are sold. Here’s what a cook needs to know.