any good cookout recipes?

Question

hosting a cookout and looking for some great side dishes and desserts besides the usual potato salads? anyone know any good ones?

Answer 1

MUTIPLE BBQ BAKED BEANS

1/4 pound bacon, chopped, browned
1 medium onion, chopped
1 heaping cup catsup
1 packed cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons mustard
2 teaspoons cider vinegar
2 15 ounce cans Pork 'n Beans


Drain these beans before adding to the pot:

1 15 ounce cans green beans
1 15 ounce lima beans
1 15 ounce black beans
1 15 ounce yellow wax
1 15 ounce navy beans
1 15 ounce pinto beans
1 15 ounce light kidney
1 15 ounce dark kidney
1 15 ounce butter beans

Brown bacon, add onion and simmer. Add catsup, brown sugar, mustard, vinegar; mix well.
Stir in Pork 'n Beans, add remaining cans of beans after draining well.

Place all ingredients into a large dutch oven.

Cover and bake for 1 hour at 350°F.

Serves a small crowd - good for company picnics or church gatherings as a side dish. Can be served next day. To make a smaller amount, use only 1 or 2 cans of beans (don't leave out the Pork 'n beans, though).


SIMPLE BAKED ONION SIDE DISH

2 layers chopped or sliced onions
grated cheese
1 can Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup
milk (enough to soften soup)
garlic powder
potato chips, crumbled

Select a small to medium sized casserole or oven proof baking dish. Spray with non-stick spray or wipe with melted butter.
Peel, chop or slice enough onions to cover the bottom of the baking dish so that you will have a double layer of onions on the bottom. Sprinkle the onions with enough grated cheese to cover and a light sprinkle of garlic powder.

In a medium bowl, combine soup with enough milk to soften the soup to pouring consistency. Pour over the onion and cheese evenly. Sprinkle with crumbled potato chips.

Note: This is even easier to make if you use a food processor to slice or chop the onions.

Kids love to prepare this dish, too!

Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes.

Answer 2

Cookout Dessert:

40 min 10 min prep
1 servings

1 whole banana, cut in half
2 tablespoons strawberry jam or raspberry jam
3-4 arrowroot cookies or animal crackers
1/4 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup juice (optional) or wine (optional)

1. All ingredients are approximate. I usually just measure with my eyes or hands it always comes out just great.
2. fold up the edges of the tin foil squares
3. cut bananas in half lengthwise and place on tinfoil a couple inches apart.
4. crush cookies and spread between the bananas.
5. spread dollops of the jam over the cookie crumbs.
6. sprinkle with chocolate chips and then juice (or wine for the adult version) just to moisten the mixture.
7. fold over the tinfoil and seal to make little pouches. place along the edge of your cook fire turning occasionally for about 15-30 minutes.
8. I usually place these in the fire as I am serving supper and then they are ready when we are done eating supper.
9. open the packets carefully to avoid steam burns and eat straight from the packets.

Answer 3

Throw the toughest, maximum inexpensive crimson meat roast you will discover in a crockpot with: vinegar, cumin, worchestershire sauce and garlic and cook dinner on low warmth for 12 hours. Pour off any cooking juices after which use 2 forks to tug the beef aside into shreds. Pour bar-b-que sauce over all and cook dinner for yet another hour. Serve on kaiser (or different fluffy, no longer crusty roll) buns with cheeze, onions, pickles, etc. for garnish. The cooking time is long, besides the fact that it incredibly is impossible to overcook in a crock pot, so which you will start up the cooking once you flow to mattress the evening in the previous and do the shredding and sauce an hour in the previous you desire to serve. it incredibly is a fresh wreck from hamburgers... I try this on the lake - start up it cooking (for a kinfolk of four - it is why it would not take as long) once I arise interior the morning and it incredibly is waiting for the ending touches as quickly as we get returned from the day on the sea coast.)

Answer 4

Grilling!

Everything taste better cooked on the grill. A sure winner is always vegetables.

Zucchini (sliced on the bias 1/4" thick)
Yellow Squash (same way)
Red or Sweet onions (1/4" rings)
Eggplant (1/2" rounds)
Medium to large mushrooms (whole)
Asparagus (trimmed)
Whole Bell Peppers
etc........

Marinate all in with Balsamic Vinegar, Olive Oil, and Montreal Steak Seasoning for 45 minutes.
Turn your grill on high and don't leave it, grill each vegetable separate. I use different sheet pan for each. Once they are done, they look very good on a large serving platter with some fresh herbs.
Be careful not to over cook though. You really only need to put good dark grill marks on each, and as they rest they will soften, but still be a little firm.

Hope this helps.........................

Answer 5

Bacon Wrapped Tater Tots serves 16

INGREDIENTS
1 (32 ounce) package tater tots
2 pounds sliced bacon, cut in half
6 slices American cheese

DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Arrange the tater tots in a single layer on a large baking sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes, so that they are no longer frozen but not completely cooked. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
Place bacon slices in a skillet over medium heat. Fry bacon until cooked through but still flexible. Drain on paper towels.
Break each slice of cheese into small pieces. Each slice should make about 16 pieces. Place a piece of cheese against the side of a tater tot. Wrap with a piece of the bacon and secure with a toothpick. Place on a baking sheet. Repeat until you run out of tots.
Bake for about 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until the bacon is crisp

for dessert
No Bake Lemon-Lime Chiffon Pie

INGREDIENTS
1 (3 ounce) package lime flavored gelatin mix
1/2 cup boiling water
1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk, chilled
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 cup white sugar
2 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crusts

DIRECTIONS

Pour the boiling water into a small bowl, and stir in the gelatin until dissolved. Set aside.

Beat the evaporated milk in a mixer bowl until stiff. Add the lemon juice and sugar; continue beating. Stir in the gelatin mixture and blend thoroughly. Chill for 1 hour.

Pour filling into the crusts. Chill until firm, about 1 hour, or overnight

Answer 6

Corn on the cob, cooked on the grill (wrap in foil)
Grilled zucchini - slice smaller squash in half lengthwise, dab with butter, minced onion, salt and pepper, again wrap in foil (usually approx 4 "lengths will fit on one piece of foil) and grill about 1/2 hour.
Grilled onion (unbelievable) - Vidalia is best. Remove skin and core the onion; working from the top make a cavity about 1" in diameter and almost to the bottom of the onion - use the portion removed to finely mice and sprinkle on your zucchini - fill the core with mixture of butter and 1 tsp boullion crystals (or salt and pepper). Wrap in double layer of foil and grill alongside meat approx 1 hour.

Answer 7

Bake Beans
4 or 5 cans of campbells pork and beans then add ketchup, mustard, brown sugar, chopped onion, karo syrup, and lil smokies and bake them in the oven for 35-45 minutes at 350'. Talk about delicious.
I sometimes use beef smoked sausage or kielbasa pieces instead of the lil smokies. =0)

Hashbrown Potato Casserole
2 pounds. frozen hashbrowns potatoes, thawed
10 oz pkg cheddar cheese, grated
8 oz. sourcream
1 can cream of celery
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
1/2 stick butter, melted
Mix all other ingredients together. Put in greased casserole. Bake at 350' for 45-55 minutes.

Watergate Salad
1 lg can crushed pineapple
1 box pistachio instant pudding
1 c. mini marshmallows
1/2 c. coconut
1 lg carton Cool whip
Mix pineapple and pudding mix together; then add marshmallows,
coconut and Cool whip. Mix and Chill.

This is my version of ambrosia. My family is not too crazy about fruit cocktail, so mine is simple.
4-5 small cans of mandarin oranges, drain all the cans except one
1 bag of mini marshmellows
1 small container of sourcream
Mix all ingredients and place in bowl, cover and store in refrigerator for at least one hour. The longer the better. Believe it or not this is a sweet tasting dish, i guess its because of the marshmellows.

7-layer bar cookies...
These are YUMMY!!!!
1/2 c. butter or margarine
1 c. graham cracker crumbs
6 oz. chocolate chips
6 oz. butterscotch chips
1 1/3 c. flaked coconut
1/2 c walnuts
1 can sweetened condensed milk
Melt butter in 13x9' pan. Sprinke crumbs evenly over butter. Layer with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut and walnuts. Pour milk over all. Bake @ 350' for 30 minutes. Cool. Cut into bars.

Pig Out Cake
1 box of yellow cake mix
1 small can (11oz) of mandarin oranges, undrained
1/2 c. oil
4- eggs
Icing:
12-16 oz Cool whip (I use 16 oz)
1 lg. can crushed pineapple, undrained
1 sm. pkg. instant vanilla pudding
Combine cake ingredients and mix well. Bake in rectangle pan at 350 degrees for approximately 30 minutes or until inserted tooth pick comes out clean.
Combine icing ingredients and spread on cooled cake.
Cake does need to be refrigerated until ready to serve.
* I sometimes add flaked coconut to the icing mixture.