BBQ Cooking

Venison sausage is great on the grill!

Looking for venison recipes? If you eat venison on a regular basis, you might be looking for something a little different. The following is a venison sausage recipe with a Cajun flair. This venison recipe is packed with flavor, and the links are awesome on the grill! Deer meat is too lean to stand alone in sausage recipes, so I mix in some pork butt with the venison.

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Peach bourbon barbecue sauce is great on pork!

The best BBQ sauces, in my opinion, are made from southern recipes. Since barbecued pork is such a popular southern food, this isn’t surprising. The following BBQ sauce recipe is sweet and tangy, with a punch of good southern bourbon. For a spicier sauce, increase the amount of cayenne. You might also want to add some hot sauce to the recipe for extra heat.

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great southern food – BBQ sandwiches

As southern food aficionados, my family likes just about anything barbecued. And by barbecued, I mean either cooked on the grill or smoker, or cooked indoors with BBQ sauce. This recipe is for delicious barbecued beef. It’s easy to make because it’s cooked in a crock pot, so you set it and forget it. We often shred the beef just like we would with pulled pork, and use it for sandwiches.

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Use a great chicken marinade!

If you like grilled chicken, you’ll get much more flavor by using a chicken marinade. The chicken marinade I’m sharing with you here will work with just about any BBQ chicken recipe. You can use it for whole chickens, boneless skinless breasts or thighs, or with bone-in chicken parts with the skin still attached. Remember, however, that the more surface area your chicken has, the more marinade it’ll soak up, so you might want to reconsider marinating whole chickens.

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Grilled shrimp photo by joebeone

I love grilled shrimp. In fact, I like shrimp, period, no matter how they’re cooked. Grilling shrimp is quick and easy – they cook in just a few minutes. Also the flesh of the shrimp absorbs added flavors from spices and sauces, along with some of the smoke from the grill.

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BBQ pork chops

This recipe is for BBQ pork chops done in the oven. When done correctly, BBQ pork chops baked in the oven can be almost as tasty as grilled pork chops done with outdoor BBQ cooking. If you add a little Liquid Smoke to the BBQ sauce, you’ll hardly miss the smoky flavor provided from charcoal or wood chips. I like lots of sauce on my pork, so I use the double-dip method.

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Awesome glazed pork loin!

We love outdoor BBQ cooking! This is a great way to cook a pork loin, and I’m going to add it to my Thanksgiving recipes and maybe to my Christmas recipes, too. You could use the same recipe for a boneless pork loin, but I used a bone-in loin for two reasons. One, they were on sale. Two, I love the ribs on a bone-in pork loin!

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smoked pork shoulder and sausage

We went over to some friends’ house recently for some outdoor BBQ cooking. I wasn’t sure what to expect since they’re not native southerners – they’re from Indiana. I was pleasantly surprised, however! I think Steve and Sandy have acclimated well to the Deep South, and since they make such great BBQ, I guess I’ll have to stop calling them “Yankees.”

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Grilled eggplant photo by woodleywonderworks.

Eggplant is a great southern food, but some folks simply don’t know how to cook it. Lots of times, we southerners prefer fried eggplant, but the slices are also delicious for outdoor BBQ cooking. Small fruits work best, as larger, older eggplants sometimes become bitter. If you use large fruits for this recipe, you’ll need to sprinkle them with salt after you’ve sliced them. Allow them to rest at room temperature for about five or ten minutes, then rinse off the salt and pat the eggplant slices dry.

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grilled redfish recipe

I like outdoor BBQ cooking for fish, and I got to try out a few new fish recipes this week, on the fresh fish we caught while on a Florida vacation. The largest fish we caught, other than sharks, were redfish. You might know the fish as red drum, channel bass, spottail bass, or simply as reds. If you’re not a fisherman, you might know the species by a popular menu item – blackened redfish. These fish are great on the grill!

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