18 secret recipes

Sirloin steak marinated in Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, garlic, and onion, then grilled and finished with butter and parsley. The classic 2-hour marinade for steakhouse-style flavor at home.

Cold seafood dip built on the surprise of sea cucumber, blended into a fluffy mix of cream cheese and whipped heavy cream. Three ingredients, served chilled with potato chips or crackers.

Tongue-in-cheek eggplant recipe where the real secret is ditching the eggplant entirely and reaching for Kentucky bourbon instead. A classic joke recipe for eggplant haters everywhere.

Kentucky Colonel's pork BBQ sauce is a thin, vinegar-based basting sauce with black pepper, chili powder, Worcestershire, hot sauce, dry mustard, and butter. A tangy, peppery Kentucky-style mop sauce that's all heat and no tomato.

Grilled Thai shrimp marinated in spicy Thai dressing then barbecued in their shells. A 2-ingredient grilled shrimp recipe that lets the marinade do all the talking.

Flesh of the Pig Ala Bob Greenberg (And Secret recipe

Make it better than McDonalds and do it yourself with this Filet O Fish recipe.

Cracker Barrel-style biscuits use just Bisquick and buttermilk for tender, easy-split biscuits that taste like the restaurant. The double-stack trick is the secret to perfect splits.

The secret to this recipe is cooking the beef in 1 cup of oil to seal in the juices, and cooking the broccoli in water to make it crisp and tender. For a more authentic touch, try using Chinese broccoli, which has an appearance and taste similar to asparagus.

Beneath a layer of ghostly whipped topping lies a chilling graveyard of cookie-crumb earth, with layers of creamy, eerie cheese filling and a tombstone of cookies marking the final resting place of your diet. Serve this spine-chilling dessert at your Halloween party, if you dare, and watch as your guests unearth the delicious secrets hidden within!

The secret to making the cucumbers crunchy is to salt them first and let the salt draw out excess moisture before use.

Beef brisket braised in onion soup and stewed tomatoes with a secret ingredient: gingersnap cookies that melt into a rich, sweet-savory gravy. Oven or slow cooker friendly.

Halloween veggie platter with a deliberately lumpy, yellowish cottage cheese dip that looks horrifying but tastes like a savory onion dip. Gross-out party food that's secretly healthy.

Beer and Parmesan omelettes with a kick of Tabasco, ready in 10 minutes flat. The secret to the lightest, fluffiest eggs? A splash of suds in the batter.

Your basic burger recipe with ground beef, onion powder, salt, and pepper. The secret is a light touch when mixing and shaping. Overworked meat makes tough, dense patties.

Three-ingredient cheese bread broils up bubbly and golden in 5 minutes. Parmesan whipped with mayo and slathered on French bread, the lazy cousin of garlic bread that secretly outshines it.