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BBQ Cookout

Discover the best BBQ recipes in the south for backyard barbecues and cookouts! Learn different BBQ techniques from baking in a dutch oven to using a wood pellet grill and smoker. Create lip-smacking homemade sauces and spice rubs that will WOW your family and friends! Make sassy sides and cool desserts that will cause you to be the hit of the BBQ!

Cooked green beans with pieces of bacon in a pan, stirred with a wooden spoon.

Smothered Green Beans

Grilled chicken breast sliced and garnished with cilantro, served with lime wedges on a plate.

Cilantro Lime Chicken

A brush spreads creamy sauce over grilled Mexican street corn, topped with herbs and cheese.

Grilled Mexican Street Corn (Elote)

A fork dips a grilled shrimp into a small bowl of melted garlic butter sauce.

Grilled Lemon Garlic Shrimp

A fork holds shrimp and sausage over a foil packet with corn, potatoes, and shrimp.

Seafood Boil Foil Packets

Smoked baby back ribs with bbq sauce on a black cast iron plate.

Pellet Grill Ribs

bowl of caramelized brussels sprouts with a spoon.

Caramelized Brussels Sprouts

Crispy smoked chicken wings with a bowl of blue cheese dip.

Crispy Smoked Chicken Wings

Cream cheese corn dip with cilantro, cream cheese, feta and fresh corn.

Cream Cheese Corn Dip

Traeger smoked pork butt being pulled apart with claws to make Traeger pulled pork.

Traeger Smoked Pork Butt (Pulled Pork)

smoked potato salad in a cast iron skillet ready to go into a Traeger pellet grill.

Traeger Smoked Potato Salad

Smoked Beer Can Chicken sitting on a beer can after smoking in a Traeger pellet grill.

Traeger Smoked Beer Can Chicken

blueberry bbq sauce in a mason jar being lifted out by a spoon.

Blueberry BBQ Sauce

Smoked Baked Beans with Bacon being held up by a wooden spoon.

Traeger Smoked Baked Beans

spoon holding up smoked potatoes from a cast iron skillet.

Smoked Potatoes

cast iron skillet filled with smoked queso dip on a traeger smoker.

Smoked Cheese Dip

mason jar filled with Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce on a spoon.

Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce Recipe

deviled eggs on parsley and lettuce

Cream Cheese Deviled Eggs

sweet pickled onions packed in pint size mason jars.

Sweet Pickled Onions

Twice baked mashed potatoes in a casserole dish being held up by a spoon.

Twice Baked Mashed Potatoes

smoked jalapeño popper being held up by a fork.

Traeger Smoked Jalapeno Poppers

sliced smoked meatloaf with bbq glaze on the side.

Pellet Grill Smoked Meatloaf

strips of million dollar bacon in a glass.

Million Dollar Bacon

smoked chicken leg being grasped by a pair of tongs.

Traeger Smoked Chicken Legs

smoked chicken thighs being held up by kitchen tongs.

Traeger Smoked Chicken Thighs

sliced smoked chuck roast on a cutting board.

Traeger Smoked Chuck Roast

dutch oven pulled pork sandwich with slaw and bbq sauce dripping onto plate.

Dutch Oven Pulled Pork

fire and ice pickles in a small dish.

Fire and Ice Pickles

white dish filled with creamy southern coleslaw on a blue napkin

Southern Coleslaw Recipe

3 mason jars with green tomato pickles.

Pickled Green Tomatoes

wooden spoon lifting a serving of mac and cheese out of a casserole dish.

Homestyle Mac and Cheese

Reese cups on top of a slice of peanut butter pie.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Pie

swirl of garden spaghetti salad wrapped around a fork with pasta underneath

Garden Spaghetti Salad

strawberry margarita pie with limes and strawberries on top.

Strawberry Margarita Pie

homemade peach iced tea with simple syrup in glasses.

Peach Iced Tea

southern tomato pie garnished with fresh herbs and tomatoes.

Southern Tomato Pie

iced tea lemonade or arnold palmer drink in a pitcher.

Iced Tea Lemonade

baby back barbecue ribs on foil in a dutch oven.

Dutch Oven Ribs

Roasted potatoes and onions ready to serve.

Roasted Potatoes and Onions

Bacon Bloody Marys in mason jars with celery and candied bacon slices.

Bacon Bloody Mary