Jazz up Grilled Chicken with a sweet and spicy Cranberry Chipotle Citrus Glaze. This chicken is sweet, spicy, tangy, and a perfect match for a bottle of Beaujolais! We’re always looking for new and exciting ways to jazz up chicken around here, especially when it comes to finding something to pair with a specific bottle…
Poultry
Poultry recipes for your grill or smoker that include chicken, turkey, and even duck. A great place to start is learning how to make Perfectly Grilled Chicken, every time!
Hazelnut Crusted Grilled Duck with Red Wine Sauce
Grilled Duck is decadent with a hazelnut crust, and then topped with an elegant and light red wine sauce. It’s the perfect pairing for a Chinon (Cabernet Franc from the Loire Valley of France) and a cozy fall evening. This post was sponsored by Loire Valley Wines and Honest Cooking. As always all opinions, statements,…
Bourbon Brined Smoked Turkey Recipe
Learn the secrets to the ultimate Smoked Turkey for your Thanksgiving or Holiday Dinner. This Smoked Turkey is jam packed with incredible flavor, from a bourbon citrus brine, to an herbed butter, to a flavorful turkey dry rub, This is the juiciest and most flavorful turkey that will have your guests going back for seconds……
Grilled Chicken with Cherry Chipotle BBQ Glaze
This Grilled Chicken is seasoned and then grilled to perfection, and finished with a delicious sweet and spicy (and super simple) Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce glaze at the end. Cherry Season has never been so delicious with this cherry chipotle bbq sauce. Cherry Season is in full swing here in Oregon, and they’re everywhere! We…
Smoked Whole Chicken Recipe
Smoked Whole Chicken is absolutely delicious and easy to make. Below we’ll explain how to smoke a whole chicken on a pellet grill or other style smoker for the best chicken you will make. Smoked Whole Chicken is one of the most common things we cook on our smokers, and you’ll see just how easy…
Dry Brined Smoked Chicken with a Carolina Glaze
This Dry Brined Smoked Chicken is slowly smoked then finished with a Carolina style BBQ sauce glaze. If you’re looking for your next favorite chicken recipe then you’ve gotta try this! I don’t know about you, but I feel like chicken never gets enough barbecue love. At least that’s what life is like around here…
Chipotle Honey Grilled Chicken — Great for Tacos
Chipotle Honey Grilled Chicken is a fantastic and versatile chicken dish that is amazing on anything from tacos to a light salad. This post was sponsored by Albertsons. As always all opinions, statements, and recipes are my own. One of my favorite easy marinades is using chipotle, from a can of chipotle in adobo sauce,…
Grilled Chicken with Ancho Chilies and Prune Sauce
The combination of grill roasted rich prunes and earthy ancho chilies mixed with grilled chicken is a winning combination! Before you say, “Whaaaaaa the? Prunes and chicken??” Just take a deep breath and trust me when I say this Grilled Chicken with Ancho Chilies and Prunes is an amazing combination. There’s an awesome group of…
Turkey Burgers with Bacon Paste — Jazzing up Turkey Burgers
How to add incredible flavor to Grilled Turkey Burgers by adding bacon paste. Turkey burgers can tend to come out dry and flavorless. Adding bacon paste to ground turkey adds not only flavor but great moisture lacking in most turkey burgers. I’ll be the first to admit, when I transitioned from a vegetarian back into…
Recipes for Valentine’s Day On Your Smoker or Grill
Our best recipes for Valentine’s Day. Avoid the restaurants this year and dine in. Here are our top 21 Recipes for Valentines Day you can cook on your Smoker or Grill. We even highlight a 3-course meal you can create in one post! I used to be one of the many Valentine’s Day haters. You…
Simplified Smoked Salsa Verde Chicken Soup
A quick, easy, soul-soothing, cold-calming, delicious Smoked Salsa Verde Chicken Soup for when you’re not feeling well. And three ways to prepare in advance of cold season. This post was sponsored by Albertsons. As always all opinions, statements, and recipes are my own. I have bad news, friends. Cold Season is here! Have I ever…
Grilled Buffalo Chicken Jalapeño Poppers
This Grilled Jalapeño Popper recipe is perfect when you’re craving chicken wings, but also jalapeño poppers. Grilled Buffalo Chicken Jalapeño Poppers are the perfect compromise! Grilled Jalapeño Poppers meets Buffalo Chicken It’s like the two perfect appetizers, jalapeño poppers and chicken wings, got married and had a beautiful baby and named it Grilled Buffalo Chicken Jalapeño Poppers….
Grilled Chicken with Blackberry BBQ Sauce
When my two favorite seasons – grilling season and berry season – combine, you get Grilled Chicken with a delicious Blackberry BBQ Sauce! We featured this recipe for Grilled Chicken with Blackberry BBQ Sauce live on Portland’s KATU News program, AM Northwest. You can view the segment below. Berry season is a universal favorite in…
Smoked Buffalo Chicken Wings (the VIDEO!)
We did it. We finally made a video of one of the most popular recipes here on Vindulge. Smoked Buffalo Chicken Wings. One of the challenges of smoking wings is that you’re cooking them at a low temperature, and that’s not conducive to achieving crispy skin (something that’s pretty darn necessary in chicken wings). You get great flavor,…
Smoked Coq au Vin — and wines to pair
Smoked Coq au Vin has to be one of my all time favorite winter comfort foods inspired by the classic French dish. This post will show you how to add smoked flavor to a traditional Coq au Vin. Many years ago we found ourselves with no family for Christmas. It was just the four of…
Basic Dry Rub Recipe — The Video!
How to make your own Basic Homemade Dry Rub for pork or chicken. Have you ever wondered about the mysteries of making your own homemade dry rub? We’ve got a simple formula for making a great homemade dry rub that’s great on barbecued pork and chicken. We get asked ALOT about what our favorite store…
Glazed BBQ Chicken
Glazed BBQ Chicken is finger licking delicious. This recipe comes with tips and tricks for getting incredible flavor from smoked chicken, including using a chicken dry rub and dipping in a flavorful BBQ glaze during the final minutes of cooking. You’re gonna love this barbecued glazed chicken! We are huge fans of chicken on the…
Smoked Chipotle Chicken Fajitas and a Garlic Chipotle Marinade
These Smoked Chipotle Chicken Fajitas combine a tasty and slightly spicy garlic chipotle marinade for chicken, and are perfect for fajitas. Making a marinade for chicken is a great use for leftover (or excess) chipotle in adobo sauce. Find out how to use that sauce in a delicious chicken marinade. My mom is the queen…
Collard Greens with (homemade) Smoked Turkey Leg
Collard Greens with Smoked Turkey is probably the most exciting thing to ever happened to greens. Smoked turkey leg infuses these perfectly cooked greens with amazing flavor. This is a delicious side dish with southern roots. First things first. I need to tell you about these greens. This is my hand model, Sean, channeling his inner…
Turkey Meatballs with Bacon Paste: The secret to flavorful meatballs
Do you know the secret to adding incredible flavor to turkey meatballs? Bacon paste! That’s right. Bacon paste is the secret to incredible and flavorful Turkey Meatballs. Bacon Paste Now I’m not talking about crispy cooked bacon (not that there’s anything wrong with crispy bacon). I’m talking about bacon paste. We told you about bacon…
12 Game Day Recipes (on the Smoker or Grill)
Here are 12 awesome Game Day recipes that can be cooked on your smoker or grill for you to enjoy this year for Super Bowl Sunday or while watching your favorite game! Game Day Recipes Even in the dead of winter, people area willing to fire up the grill for their favorite Football team, especially…
Smoked Turkey and Bourbon Gravy
This Smoked Turkey Gravy is truly the most delicious gravy to serve alongside your turkey for Thanksgiving or holiday dinner. And did you know you can make Smoked Turkey Gravy for Thanksgiving without a smoker? Whaaaat? Yes! And you don’t even need to catch any turkey drippings. We have the greatest shortcuts for your gravy…
Traeger Pellet Grilled Chicken Thighs Recipe
Grilled Chicken Thighs are delicious cooked on a Pellet Grill. Find out how easy it is to cook perfect BBQ chicken on your Traeger grill or Pellet smoker. One of the recipes we practiced over, and over, and over again for our first BBQ competition was chicken thighs. We learned a ton about smoking thighs….
Traeger Roasted Whole Chicken and Knudsen Vineyards Chardonnay
“Dad taught me about passion. I want to keep that alive and spread that passion that he had.” Passionate is how Page Knudsen Cowles, Partner and Managing Director of Knudsen Vineyards, describes her late father, Cal Knudsen, founder of Knudsen Vineyards — one of the Willamette Valley’s most known and treasured vineyards. Cal Knudsen was…