Cookouts
Cookout food, grill tips, and outdoor meals made to be shared.
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Season Is What We Put on Food
I’m not one of those people who talks about “BBQ season.” Around here, season is what we put on food. If I want to cook outside, I cook outside. Snow, rain, heat, cold, it doesn’t much matter to me. A grill doesn’t know what month it is, and neither do I when the mood hits. On this particular night, my wife was working one of those long shifts that more often than not drags on into the early morning hours. So while she was at work, I decided I was going to have myself a cookout. Now before anybody gets the wrong idea, I didn’t forget about her. I forgot…
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My Go-To Cookout Meal
When it comes to cookouts, I tend to keep things pretty simple. I’m not trying to reinvent anything or impress anyone with fancy techniques. I just stick with what works and what people enjoy eating. Most of the time, my go-to cookout meal starts with ribs. Either St. Louis–cut ribs or a full rack of spares, depending on what I can get and how many people are coming over. I season them up, get them on the grill or smoker, and let them take their time. Ribs aren’t something you rush, and that’s part of what I enjoy about making them. Alongside the ribs, I almost always make MOINK balls.…
