1,699 smoky recipes

Chinese-style steamed whole chicken with a ginger-scallion dipping sauce made with smoking-hot peanut and sesame oil. Tender, juicy, and deeply flavorful.

Grilled butterflied leg of lamb rubbed with crushed rosemary and marinated in red Burgundy wine, olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic. No mint, just herbs and smoke over mesquite charcoal.

Mesquite-smoked beef brisket on a gas grill rotisserie, rubbed with paprika and cayenne, then basted for hours in a beer-spiked barbecue sauce. Slice it thin and watch it fall apart on the cutting board.

Spicy Ham, Bean, Sausage, and Vegetable Soup recipe

Roasting bag brisket, a tender oven brisket rubbed with seasoning and sealed in a bag with liquid smoke for real barbecue flavor, no smoker required. Make-ahead, hands-off, and fall-apart tender.

Smoker stuffed salmon with a whole fish filled with fresh dill, tomatoes, scallions, bread cubes, celery, and garlic, then smoked on a water smoker. A showpiece for outdoor cooking.

A creamy quiche that is a perfect healthy alternative for dinner.

Kipper pate slices layer creamy smoked fish on golden puff pastry, finished with a cool cucumber-mint dressing. A British appetizer that handles a dinner party with quiet confidence.

Buttermilk Swedish flatbread (knäckebröd-style) blends rye flour, all-purpose flour, buttermilk, and fragrant fennel seeds into thin, crisp rounds baked in just 5 minutes. A traditional Scandinavian crispbread for cheese, butter, or smoked fish.

Apple City Championship BBQ ribs with a 6-spice dry rub, apple juice basting, and a homemade sauce with grated apple, soy, and Worcestershire. Smoked low and slow for 5.5 hours of pure competition flavor.

Southern-style pole beans slow-simmered with a smoked ham hock until tender and deeply flavored. Just five ingredients and pure comfort.

Poulet a l'Intrigue: a Louisiana-style stuffed chicken breast marinated, packed with a sausage-eggplant dressing under the skin, lightly hickory-smoked, and finished with an andouille-pecan cream sauce.

Bread machine Scandinavian rye loaf with caraway, fennel, orange zest, and molasses. Dense, lightly sweet rye bread that bakes itself overnight. Perfect for smoked salmon and butter.

Traditional dry salt cure for a 14-pound ham using rough salt, brown sugar, and saltpeter. Includes a 3-week curing process with optional smoking instructions for homemade country ham.

Sticky monster beef ribs marinated overnight, hickory-smoked low over a beef broth drip pan, then basted with mesquite BBQ sauce until the bark turns glossy black. Backyard beef ribs done right.

After a few potsticker recipes, I finally made my very first bunch of pot sticky buns (another popular food in China). They came out soft, and quite delicious. Nicely browned and crispy at the bottom. It's an excellent way to use up some of our fresh veggies.