A platter of grilled bell peppers can disappear with embarrassing speed at a backyard cookout. Set them…
The first good sign is the smell. Garlic and vinegar hit the meat, the grill warms up,…
Marinated smoked cooking for backyard cookouts works best when you stop treating the marinade and the smoke…
A marinated romantic picnic for two for backyard cookouts works because the food arrives with flavor already…
A charred picnic lunch for backyard cookouts works because it gives the table a little edge. Not…
The sauces that vanish first at a cookout are rarely the thick, sticky ones that cling like…
Smoke, vinegar, blistered onion edges, and the faint sweet burn of a sauce that hit the grate…
The best part of a backyard cookout is not the smoke. It’s that first hiss when marinated…
Grilled picnic party food has one job: stay good after it leaves the grill. That sounds simple…
When the grill is hot and the table is already crowded with ribs, corn, buns, and a…
The best backyard cookouts smell a little scorched in the right places. Not burnt. Scorched in the…
Summer zucchini can be the saddest thing on a cookout plate when it’s cut too thin, thrown…
Smoke is never just smoke at a backyard cookout. It clings to the edges of potato salad…
A good cookout starts before the grill is even hot. The best summer spreads I’ve eaten weren’t…
The smell hits first: fat warming on metal, pepper catching in the heat, a little smoke curling…