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…
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!
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…
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. What is Bacon Paste? 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…
12 Tailgate Recipes (on the Smoker or Grill)
Here are 12 awesome Tailgate recipes that can be cooked on your smoker or grill for you to enjoy this year whether you’re at the game live or while watching your favorite game on tv! Tailgate Recipes Even in the dead of winter, people area willing to fire up the grill for their favorite Football…
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…
Smoked Chicken Verde Soup
Take this smoked chicken, add some smoked chicken stock, and a few other goodies, and you have this amazing Smoked Chicken Verde Soup that comes together in under 30 minutes. I was first introduced to this brilliant Jalapeño Lime Chicken Soup from one of my favorite food blogs, Pinch of Yum. Their version however, calls…
BBQ Corner (part 10) – How to add incredible flavor to grilled burgers
By contributing writer Sean, aka “the hubby” I’m gonna go ahead and say something out loud. Grilled burgers can be very boring. It’s true. Nothing is more uninspiring than frozen beef patties from your local chain supermarket, grilled so wrong they end up overcooked, then placed on a cheap bun with ketchup and mustard. But…
How to make a Grilled and Glazed Chicken
How to make Grilled and Glazed Chicken. I must admit a few years ago I was so uninspired when grilling chicken (but my wife requested it several times a week!). Frankly, I just felt that the flavor was bland and half the time it was either too charred or not cooked enough, meaning it would…
Smoked Buffalo Chicken Pizza & Wine Pairing
Smoked Buffalo Chicken Pizza is the perfect answer for when you’re wanting Buffalo wings, but also pizza! Also a great use for leftover chicken. Shred it, mix it with Franks RedHot hot sauce, and add to your pizza. I didn’t know Buffalo wings could be elevated to such a level… until this weekend. I thought…
Smoked Buffalo Turkey Dip
The absolute BEST use for leftover turkey is this Smoked Buffalo Turkey Dip! I thought I knew what the ultimate use for leftover Thanksgiving turkey was. I was wrong. It’s this dip! Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey It’s inevitable, if you’re going to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving or any holiday, you’re going to find yourselves with…