Below you'll find “Sides & Such” recipes and tips
Smoking green beans is a great side dish that is easy and delicious. You can use any pan or pot, but I use a cast iron dutch oven and add 4 -6 cans of green beans. Then I add diced onion, diced garlic, pulled pork, salt and pepper to my green beans. Then add two ham hocks and cover it …
Grilling hot dogs is about as easy as it gets. And for these Chicago Hot Dogs, I throw them on the grill and make Char Dogs. You just need a hot grill to throw your all beef hot dogs on for 5 minutes. When they have great grill marks on the hot dogs you can pull them off and build …
Potato Salad is a perfect side dish for barbecue. Every time someone is firing up the grill it seems someone is bringing a store-bought potato salad. But making a fresh potato salad at home is really easy and it will taste so much better than anything you can pick-up at the store. With this Southern Style Potato Salad I garnish …
Here is my recipe for Baked Beans: Smoked Baked Beans Recipe: – 2 cans Bush’s Original Baked Beans (drained completely) – ½ red onion (diced fine) – 1 red bell pepper (diced fine) – 1 glove garlic (diced fine) – ¾ cup packed brown sugar – 1 cup barbecue sauce – 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce – 1 tablespoon yellow mustard …
Smoked Mac & Cheese Recipe – 2 Tablespoons Butter – 2 Tablespoons Flour – 2 Cups Heavy Cream – 1LB. Extra Sharp Cheddar (shredded) – ½LB. Monterey Jack (shredded) – 1-2 Tablespoons Hot Sauce – 2 teaspoons All Purpose Seasoning – 1 Cup Mayo – 1 Cup Sour Cream – 12oz Elbow Macaroni Noodles – 1/2 Cup Panko – 12oz …
I’m sure everyone remembers having stuffed peppers for dinner as a child. Typically the peppers were filled with a ground meat & rice and served with a tomato sauce. If you were lucky they were topped with cheese and not a soggy, brown mess. It wasn’t my favorite thing to see on my plate as a kid, but now I …
This week the weather kept us from firing up the smoker – my entire backyard was a sheet of ice! But we’re not going to let the cold weather get us down. So I pulled some of the left-over Pulled Pork out of the freezer and decided to make a Brunswick Stew – Mississippi Style. Brunswick Stew is real hardy.. …
There is something I look forward to every year when the temps start to drop… and that is cold smoking cheese. Because we live in the south, we have limited times we can do it down here because if it’s warm outside – your cheese can melt. Cold smoking cheese is really, really easy. The only thing you’ve got to …
Every Southerner knows that you can’t have a pulled pork sandwich unless you have a good cole slaw. I’ve had several people ask me for my recipe for slaw, so with no further to do: Killer Hogs Cole Slaw Recipe 1 Bag of shredded Cole Slaw (green cabbage w/ carrots and red cabbage) ½ cup Blue Plate Mayo ¼ cup …
Almost everyone has tried or cooked a Buffalo Chicken Dip… and I have to say it’s one of my favorites. It’s perfect for football parties (especially the Super Bowl) . But the one thing I’ve always hated is the canned, processed bad-texture can chicken people use in this dip. If you really want to make this dip as good as …
Here’s a quick treat that’s good for the holidays or just for snacking… Smoked Nuts I use pecans, almonds, or cashews for this recipe, it’s prepared on the smoker, and it makes a great gift too. Here’s what you’ll need: 1 pound of nuts (Pecan halves, almonds or Cashews) 4 Tablespoons Butter 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce 2 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar …
Who doesn’t love getting gifts that have been smoked? Smoked Cheese is one item that I find myself doing once it gets cold outside and it makes a great Christmas gift. It’s fairly easy to prepare smoked cheese at home, but there’s a few things you need to know. The first thing is Cold Smoking. It’s basically producing good, clean …