A pile of homemade hotdogs
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Homemade Hotdogs: So Tasty, and Temperature-perfect

Hotdogs are perhaps the most quintessentially American food. Sausages of all sorts made their way here with immigrants from all cultures and were then changed, re-tuned, and altered to cope with new ingredients and fit the needs of American eaters and their increasingly unique palate. One of those sausages eventually begat the hotdog. Deeply entrenched…

BBQ'd Beef short ribs
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Harry Soo’s Butter-Cola BBQ Beef Short Ribs

There’s nothing quite like beef short ribs. The unique flavor of the meat is halfway between a brisket and a steak, and their tender juiciness is beyond compare—at least, it is when you cook them correctly! We were happy to have Harry Soo, one of the world’s great BBQ personalities and championship-winning talent behind Slap…

Lamb chops and couscous

Lamb Chops Recipe: Double-cut and Roasted to Temperature Perfection

This post is going up the week before Easter this year, and it’s just in time, hopefully, to help with some amazing feasts. Lamb is one of the quintessential spring foods, rife with the imagery of fertility and new life, and it’s also just good. If you still haven’t nailed down your Easter dinner plans—or…

Firecracker brisket
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Firecracker Brisket—A Not-So-Traditional Rub for a Delicious Meal

Choosing how to season your meat is, let’s face it, one of the joys of barbecue. There are hundreds of quality rubs on the market, you can blend your own, just use salt and pepper, or find a well-thought-out recipe and follow that. We recently cooked a brisket and took that last path, following the…