How to grill a hanger steak and finish it with a decadent red wine reduction sauce. Hanger Steaks are an affordable alternative to more expensive cuts of meat, but are full of incredible flavor. Find out how to perfectly cook a hanger steak on the grill. Hanger Steaks are a go-to around here. They’re easy…
Sauces (BBQ & Other)
Smoked (BBQ) Stuffed Meatloaf
This Smoked Stuffed Meatloaf is pure indulgence! The tender meat is jam packed with flavor, then stuffed with creamy mozzarella cheese, and smoked on the grill, and finally finished with a spicy Sriracha ketchup. This is the meatloaf of dreams. I was never a meatloaf fan growing up. No offense, mom, but you had other talents!…
Grilled Pork Chops with Wine Brown Butter Sauce and Prosecco Superiore wine pairing
The next time you think of pork chops, elevate them to the next level by making this super easy, yet elegant, Wine Brown Butter Sauce. Pair it with a bottle of delicious Prosecco Superiore, and you’ve got yourself an incredible meal for date night or entertaining guests. We’re very passionate about our bubbly around…
Grilled Chicken with a Cranberry Chipotle Citrus Glaze
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…
Hazelnut Crusted Grilled Duck with Red Wine Sauce – The Perfect Cozy Fall Evening Dinner
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,…
Smoked Pork Ribs with Asian Spice Rub
Inspired by Asian flavors, these Smoked Pork Ribs with Asain Spice Rub and Sauce are absolutely incredible! (This post was originally published in August 2015, and edited in 2018) Barbecue can be a very subjective experience, especially if your lens for barbecue style foods is heavily influenced by one of the BBQ classical regions like…
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…
Sugar Free Smoked Pork Ribs (Keto and Paleo Friendly)
Keto Ribs, Smoked Pork Ribs with zero added sugar, Sugar Free BBQ Sauce? Is it possible!? Why yes it can be done! These ribs are made with a savory and sweet dry rub that has zero added sugar, as well as an incredible sugar free BBQ sauce that is naturally sweetened. While we love our…
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. I’ve been on a huge chipotle kick lately, and no I’m not talking about the restaurant. I’m…
Grilled Chipotle Shrimp
A super easy (and fast!) recipe for delicious grilled shrimp marinated in a spicy and sweet chipotle honey lime marinade quickly grilled to perfection. Perfect for summer grilling season or taco night. Any shrimp fans in the house? Be prepared to see some chipotle love around here the next couple weeks. I’ve been on a…
The Ultimate Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict
Eggs Benedict made with Smoked Salmon. And I’m not talking about lox. Nope! Instead, a delicious salmon filet slow smoked until tender and delicious, topped with a perfect poached egg and a flavorful hollandaise sauce. Eggs Benedict is my all time favorite breakfast, and one in which I judge all breakfast restaurants by. If they’re…
Maple Chipotle Cedar Plank Grilled Salmon
Cedar Plank Salmon is amazing when coated with a sweet and spicy dry rub, cooked on the grill giving it that smoked influence, and finished with a maple syrup glaze. Sweet, spicy, and absolutely incredible. And if you don’t have a grill you can easily do this in a hot cast iron pan and finish…
Spicy Mango Jalapeño BBQ Sauce (no sugar added)
This Mango BBQ Sauce gets a spicy kick from the jalapeno and is naturally sweetened with mango, there are no added sugars in this recipe. Eating a No-Sugar, Low-Sugar Diet Last year the hubs and I did a 10-day sugar detox. I know I know, these darn fad diets and challenges!!! Honestly it’s one of…
Smoked Meatballs in a Cranberry Pinot Noir Sauce (recipe and video)
Smoked meatballs braised in a sweet and savory cranberry Pinot Noir sauce is one of our all time favorite holiday appetizers. It’s always a hit at a party! Guess what? The mystery of the Cranberry Pinot Noir Meatballs has been solved!!! The first time I wrote about this recipe I told you about how we…
Sweet and Savory Honey Dijon Glazed Smoked Ribs
Create your own unique flavor for ribs with a sweet and savory honey Dijon sauce. This post was sponsored by Smithfield. As always all opinions, statements, and recipes are my own. One of my favorite things about barbecue is that there are no rules. There are methods and products up the wazoo, but what it…
Blueberry Bourbon Rosemary Smoked Ribs
Blueberry Bourbon Smoked Ribs have incredible rich and savory flavors that will wow your guests next time you smoke ribs. This is a fun smoked rib recipe to try if you want to change up from traditional BBQ flavors. Blueberry season has officially arrived in the Pacific Northwest. I friggin love blueberries. To me, they’re…
Red Wine Marinated Smoked Tri Tip (recipe and video)
An award-winning recipe for Smoked Tri Tip from our very first BBQ competition, made with a wine marinated smoked trip tip and smoked slowly to perfection. Serve alone or with a delicious chimichurri sauce. Da bomb! Scroll to the bottom for the the video. We have learned a lot about smoking tri tip. It has evolved…
Grilled Chicken with Blackberry BBQ Sauce — Recipe and video on AM Northwest
When my two favorite seasons – Grilling Season and Berry Season – combine you get grilled chicken with a berry makeover. We joined AM Northwest to cook up our new recipe for Grilled Chicken with Blackberry BBQ Sauce and it was awesome! Berry season is a universal favorite in my household. We take the kids…
Smoked Pulled Pork Enchiladas and Smoker Recipes for Cinco de Mayo
Turn leftover pulled pork into a plate full of incredible enchiladas. Perfect for Cinco de Mayo, or an easy weeknight dinner. Plus several other festive recipes for Cinco de Mayo. It’s time to talk about something serious. Cinco de Mayo. As a Mexican American from central Arizona we love to celebrate this day with all…
Smoked Sausage Ragù and Parmesan Polenta
Smoked Sausage Ragù — A simple way to add some smoked flavor to your next ragù sauce. Serve over some creamy polenta and pair it with some Pedroncelli wines and you’ve got yourself an awesome dinner. There are several ways to incorporate some smoke flavor to your favorite Italian dishes, like a rich ragù sauce,…
Smoked Ribs with Spicy Mango BBQ Sauce (low sugar)
Pork ribs with a low sugar BBQ sauce. Find out how to create a spicy and naturally sweet BBQ sauce without using ketchup or cups of added sugar. Last month my family joined me in a 10-day sugar cleanse. I had wanted to do one since October, but then Halloween, and Thanksgiving, and all the…
Smoked Meatballs with Cranberry & Red Wine Sauce on AM Northwest (video and recipe)
Guys, we got to back on AM Northwest! This time cooking up one of our favorite holiday appetizers – Smoked Meatballs with a Cranberry & Red Wine Sauce. Scroll to the bottom for the video, or just click here. Several years ago I discovered a very cool use for canned cranberries at a very unlikely…
Smoked Honey Butter
Smoked honey meets butter to create an incredibly elegant and delicious spread for rolls, toast, sandwiches, and so much more. Because we like to experiment with everything on our smoker we had the idea earlier this summer to smoke honey, just to see what would happen. The combination of sweet and smoky is a favorite…
How to Make Smoked Almonds and Smoked Almond Butter
How to roast almonds on your smoker and use them to make a delicious and unique smoked almond butter. So good! One of the very first things we ever experimented with cooking on the smoker was almonds. I love crunchy oven roasted almonds so I was curious how they would come out slow smoked. The…
![I don’t see hanger steak getting a lot of love these days.
It’s such a fantastic cut of meat. Super tender. Super flavorful! Super affordable compared to some of my other fav cuts of beef!🔥🙌🙌
It’s impossible not to like!
This one is grilled and finished with a decadent red wine reduction sauce!🔥🥩🍷 So. Darn. Good.
And the whole meal is so ridiculously easy to make!
It could even be a contender for V-day dinner❤️ (or simply a filling for your Tuesday tacos)... just sayin’ 😉
. [recipe can be found at vindulge.com] 🔥🍷](http://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/d6c69e85cdc4298f3c20c9e1c9bf3640/5CE3FD03/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.135.1080.1080a/s640x640/50589200_629282010859182_115598722346345528_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com "I don’t see hanger steak getting a lot of love these days.
It’s such a fantastic cut of meat. Super tender. Super flavorful! Super affordable compared to some of my other fav cuts of beef!🔥🙌🙌
It’s impossible not to like!
This one is grilled and finished with a decadent red wine reduction sauce!🔥🥩🍷 So. Darn. Good.
And the whole meal is so ridiculously easy to make!
It could even be a contender for V-day dinner❤️ (or simply a filling for your Tuesday tacos)... just sayin’ 😉
. [recipe can be found at vindulge.com] 🔥🍷")
![When your body needs a temporary break from meat — (and for us that means a break from our meat-filled-cookbook-recipe-testing…. soooooo many meats!) —
You turn to your favorite vegan bbq soup recipe 👉 Smoked Mushroom and Lentil Soup. 🍲🍲🍲 Hearty. Flavorful. Soulful. Satisfying. And completely void of meat.
Your body will thank you tomorrow! (And then tomorrow you can go back to enjoying all the meats🙌🎉🔥)
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.
[the soup recipe can be found at vindulge.com]](http://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/8ff26901480df19d359bc20042526d91/5D2575B1/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c0.108.1080.1080/s640x640/50676074_540748139662171_736534604546108152_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com "When your body needs a temporary break from meat — (and for us that means a break from our meat-filled-cookbook-recipe-testing…. soooooo many meats!) —
You turn to your favorite vegan bbq soup recipe 👉 Smoked Mushroom and Lentil Soup. 🍲🍲🍲 Hearty. Flavorful. Soulful. Satisfying. And completely void of meat.
Your body will thank you tomorrow! (And then tomorrow you can go back to enjoying all the meats🙌🎉🔥)
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.
[the soup recipe can be found at vindulge.com]")