Tips, Tricks & Recipes

Summer feels like it’s finally here, everyone is unpacking their camping gear and revving up their BBQs. It’s a time for family, friends, and good food. With that in mind, we’ve come up with a fantastic menu to kick off this grilling season. To Start Quesadillas on the BBQ are so easy and they taste [...]

Sweet, sour, and refreshing – the perfect summer drink. Add some vodka if you want a kick. This recipe is part of our Memorial Day Menu. Makes: 2 pitchers Ingredients: 8-10 medium handfuls of berries, frozen or fresh ¾ gallon or 12 cups of lemonade Step 1: Preparing the Berries – Puree the berries in [...]

Quesadillas on the BBQ? Yes it is as good as it sounds! Crispy on the outside, cheesy and peppery on the inside – it doesn’t get much better. They’re good on their own, but for a real treat try them with our Cheesy Tomato Dip, yum. If you want to make the recipe even simpler, [...]

Makes around 4 cups This is my favorite guacamole recipe; I love how the cream cheese makes it extra creamy. And paired with the lime juice, I could eat it with a spoon! This recipe is part of our Memorial Day Menu. Ingredients: 4 ripe avocados, (Hass are the best) 1 small onion 4-6 garlic [...]

A delicious creamy tomato dip with a touch of spice. It’s very easy to make and you can easily double or even triple the recipe to feed a crowd. This recipe is part of our Memorial Day Menu. Ingredients: 1 onion 1 green pepper 1 jalapeno (add more or less depending on how spicy you [...]

This is the best potato salad I’ve ever tried; it’s the perfect balance of flavors. I normally serve it with steak or hamburgers, but every time I wonder why I even bothered with the meat. All I want is a big bowl of this salad! This recipe is part of our Memorial Day Menu. Ingredients: [...]

If you’ve never tried it, grilled pineapple may sound a bit strange. But trust me; this is one of the simplest and most delicious desserts you could make. Not to mention it has the added benefit of being fun! Who could resist dessert on a stick dipped in bowls of molten chocolate? This recipe is [...]

A popular grill recipe, we found a number of variations when we were researching ideas for our experiment. Some people smoked the bird, some covered it in a rub, some brined, some even baked in the oven! However the one thing we didn’t find were any tests on the various flavors you could get from [...]

This recipe is incredibly easy and delicious, but keep in mind that cooking time is 2 hours. We made this recipe with two different flavors of Grumpy’s BBQ sauce. The ‘Good night loving’ Texas Style and the ‘Bold XX’ Kansas City Style. The Tasters (Me, my husband, my mother-in-law, and my nephew) were divided in [...]

This is a delicious salad either as a meal on its own or as a side dish. At the moment it is probably my favorite and most common lunch meal. The ingredients seem to change each time I make it, but some of my favorite variations are: feta instead of cheddar, halved olives (kalamata preferably), [...]