Category Archives: BBQ Recipes

Get your kids involved

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Cooking, especially barbecuing, can seem like grown-ups only territory. But one thing nutritionists recommend to help broaden your child’s tastes, it to get them involved in food preparation.

If you have had enough of serving up burger and fries, and your ready to try something new, here’s my top tips for getting your kids involved.

1. It’s all in the planning

This is going to require a fair bit of tolerance on your part, but can you suspend your love of healthy food long enough to let your child plan a menu for one meal? You can suggest some fruit and vegetables, but don’t insist. Your child needs to feel they have full control in order for this to be fun and successful.

If your child is reluctant to do this, which may happen in meal times have become a chore in your home, suggest you plan a dinner party for her favorite dolls, or his action figures.

2. Where does food come from

Can you get to a fruit farm? Or even a candy factory? When you walk around the supermarket talk about how the food got their. Look at foods in different states – like corn cob with the leaves still on, or tomatoes still on the vine. Children have a natural thirst for knowledge, and once they feel confident about what food is and where it comes from, they will be more willing to experiment with new flavors.

3. Little Chef

Play cafe, you be the customer, and let your child be the chef. Of course you will supervise any baking, but you could leave the room while they decorate a cake for you and mix up a milkshake. You can even get toy ovens that really bake treats. Once your child has experienced the satisfaction of watching someone enjoy food they have prepared, they can have some understanding of why you are so keen for them to eat the meals you prepare.

More Information

For more tips and ideas, check out this video from Health Central.

Southern Coleslaw

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What goes perfectly with awesome southern barbecue? You’ll need some great sides like coleslaw, baked beans, and potato salad. To be perfectly honest, I can’t imagine having pulled pork without a generous helping of coleslaw, and my North Carolinian husband can’t eat a barbecue sandwich without piling on the slaw. Of course there are plenty of other sides that go great with southern barbecue, including pasta salad, fruit salad, baked potatoes, scalloped potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and French fries. All of these are wonderful, but nothing can take the place of good ol’ southern coleslaw.

Southern coleslaw recipe

What you’ll need:

1 medium head green cabbage

1/2 cup minced sweet Vidalia onion

1/3 cup chopped bread and butter pickles, with some juice

3/4 cup mayonnaise

1/3 cup sugar

1/4 cup bottled ranch dressing

2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

Salt and pepper, to taste

paprika

Directions: Rinse cabbage and remove outer leaves. Cut cabbage into four equal quarters. Shred the cabbage and place in a large bowl. Add minced onion and chopped pickles.

Whisk together mayonnaise, sugar, ranch dressing, and vinegar. Pour this over the cabbage and toss. Add salt and pepper and taste. Adjust seasonings. Cover container and refrigerate slaw for two hours or more. When ready to serve, sprinkle coleslaw with paprika.

Make Extra Money From Home with Recipes

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Do you love to cook? Do you have what you think are some of the best recipes for certain dishes? Did you know that millions of people each year search online for food recipes of all sorts? Just do a search right now and you’ll find tons of recipe sites. Do you think those site owners put up those sites for fun? Well, maybe some do but many of them are making some good money with those sites. If you’re looking for information on how to make extra money from home, then this could be a type of business you can consider.

So how exactly do these people make money with recipes? Aren’t most recipes free? Well, yes, you can find recipes for any types of dishes for free on the net but there are ways to make money from this. One way is to give out typical recipes and save the best for a recipe book that you can sell. Another way to make money is by recommending cooking related products. Many people simple earn money by having ads on their site. So put your love of cooking onto a website and make some profit. If anything, it will at least be fun to have people email you telling you how great your recipes are.

Southern Food: Pecan-Grilled Pork Chops

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If you’re a big fan of southern food, it’s pretty much a requirement that you have to like pork. And what’s not to like? Pork is delicious just about any ole way, but when you grill it over charcoal or wood, it’s even better. If you’ve never tried adding some pecan flavor to your grilled pork, you don’t know what you’re missing!

If you live in the South, go out and cut some small pecan limbs, or find some on the ground that are still green. If you can’t do this, purchase some pecan chips or chunks. Soak the twig, limbs, chips, or chunks in water for several hours. Place a weight on top to keep the pecan wood submerged. Now, prepare the pork chops using the following recipe:

Pecan-Grilled Pork Chops recipe

Ingredients:

  • 6 center-cut pork chops, about ½-inch thick
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon fresh sage
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • ½ teaspoon cayenne

Directions: Rinse pork chops and pat dry. Combine remaining ingredients and rub into pork flesh. Place meat in the fridge.

Make a charcoal fire in your grill and create two cooking zones. Pile the coals on one side. When the coals are almost ready, add the pecan wood. When the heat gets to medium-high, place the chops on the grill to sear both sides. Move the meat over to the cooler side of the grill and close the lid. This will allow the chops to finish cooking and to get more of the pecan smoke into the flesh.

 

Hamburger Recipes: Teriyaki Burgers

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My family and I enjoy all kinds of hamburger recipes. Sometimes nothing seems as good as a plain ole grilled burger, but at other times, we prefer burgers that are a little different. Some may even call them unusual. These burgers are really delicious! The sweet pineapple and the teriyaki sauce go great with the beef, and the bell pepper adds a nice crunch.

Teriyaki Burgers recipe

Ingredients:

  • ½ cup soft bread crumbs
  • 2 tablespoons teriyaki sauce (thin kind)
  • 2 tablespoons pineapple juice
  • 1 beaten egg
  • 1 ½ pounds ground chuck
  • 1 teaspoon garlic salt
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 12 pineapple rings
  • Olive oil
  • Green bell pepper strips
  • 1 dozen Hawaiian rolls
  • Teriyaki glaze (thick kind)

Directions: In a large bowl, combine bread crumbs, teriyaki sauce, pineapple juice, and egg. Let stand for five minutes. Mix in ground chuck, garlic salt, and black pepper. Divide mixture into 12 balls. Flatten balls to make 12 patties that are slightly larger than the Hawaiian rolls. Place burgers on a plate and refrigerate for an hour or two.

Grill hamburgers over medium coals to desired doneness. While burgers are cooking, brush pineapple rings with olive oil and grill fruit until grill marks are left on both sides. Grill peppers, too, if desired.

Place cooked burgers on rolls and top with pineapple, bell pepper, and teriyaki glaze.

 

 

Jerk BBQ Chicken Recipe

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This BBQ chicken recipe will bring the flavors of Jamaica to your back yard! The traditional jerk chicken marinade will do the trick, and it will also keep your chicken breasts moist as they cook. Serve the grilled chicken with rice and peas (kidney beans cooked with coconut milk and peppers), and you’ll have a complete island-style meal.

Jerk BBQ Chicken Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 1/3 cup orange juice
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 1 medium onion, diced
  • 1 Scotch bonnet pepper, seeded and diced
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 1 teaspoon ground allspice
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
  • Pinch ground cloves

Directions: Remove and discard any skin or cartilage from chicken breasts. Rinse breasts and pat dry. With a meat mallet, pound chicken so that breasts are of uniform thickness all over, about ½ inch. Place chicken in a large plastic food bag.

Add remaining ingredients to blender and liquefy. Pour marinade over chicken and close bag. Place bag in a bowl or dish and refrigerate overnight. Move chicken breasts around a few times in the bag while they’re marinating.

Remove chicken from marinade and grill breasts on medium-high grill for about 5-6 minutes per side.

 

Crab-Stuffed Grilled Shrimp Recipe

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With this great grilled shrimp recipe, you get two favorite examples of seafood in one bite – shrimp and crabmeat. Many American recipes are often “heavy” on the meats, so, in addition to seafood, you’ll also get a taste of savory, smoky bacon. What more could you ask of a recipe?

Crab-Stuffed Grilled Shrimp Recipe

Ingredients you’ll need:

  • Jumbo or colossal shrimp, peeled and deveined, with tails intact
  • ½ cup fresh crabmeat
  • 2 tablespoons crushed saltine crackers
  • 1 beaten egg
  • 2 teaspoons minced onion
  • 1 teaspoon ground red pepper
  • ½ teaspoon garlic salt
  • Mayonnaise
  • Thin bacon strips
  • Toothpicks

Directions: Rinse shrimp and pat dry with paper towels. The split in the back of the shrimp needs to be deep, so use a sharp knife if you need to make the split deeper, being careful not to slice all the way through the flesh.

Combine crabmeat, saltine crackers, egg, ground red pepper. And garlic salt. When cracker crumbs are soft, mix in just enough mayonnaise to hold everything together. Wrap each stuffed shrimp with a slice of bacon and use a toothpick to secure.

Clean and lightly oil grill grates and heat grill to medium-high. Grill shrimp for about two or three minutes per side, or until bacon is done and shrimp are opaque and pink.