15 BBQ Recipes (Rain or Shine)

A baking sheet with 6 spicy baked chicken wings glazed with hot sauce, a jar of sauce nearby

Spicy Baked Chicken Wings1/15

Baked chicken wings? As in, chicken wings without the butter, deep-frying, or grease-splattered stovetop? Count us in.

Bite-size bacon and cheese scones with smoked bacon and melted Asiago on top on a parchment-lined baking sheet

Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones2/15

Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good biscuits we've had in recent memory. Maybe ever.

A white bowl filled with pimento cheese and some saltine crackers topped with the cheese next to the bowl

Barbecue Pimento Cheese3/15

Not all pimento cheese recipes are created equal. This one, with a touch of barbecue, definitely has an unfair advantage.

A slab of glazed ribs with a knife cutting between two ribs

Pressure Cooker Ribs4/15

We confess, we'd never imagined you could turn ribs fall-off-the-bone tender in 30 minutes. Until this recipe made believers out of us.

A shredded beef taco bar--a wooden platter with a braised beef shank, cilantro, lime, and pickled onions

This taco extravaganza is one part classic Mexican cooking, two parts slightly unconventional toppings, and all parts surprisingly simple to toss together for entertaining or simply family dinner on a Tuesday.. Taco party, anyone?

Cajun Fried Chicken6/15

Bathed in buttermilk and spiced ever so slightly, this Cajun-style fried hen is memorably moist inside, superlatively crisp outside, and gosh darn perfect through and through.

Two corn tortillas topped with slow cooker shredded pork, cheese, and cilantro on a wooden board with some lime wedges beside.

Slow Cooker Shredded Pork7/15

Pull out your slow cooker and sate yourself with this tender, sweetly spiced, subtly smoky shredded pork. And with nary any effort.

Two chipotle maple barbecue beef brisket tacos on a wooden surface.

Chipotle Maple Barbecue Beef Brisket8/15

All the messy, smoky goodness of a backyard barbecue minus the messy, smoky backyard.

A rack of slow cooker ribs on a cutting board with four single ribs cut off

Slow Cooker Ribs9/15

All the scintillating, fall-off-the-bone magnificence of smoked ribs. None of the standing outside in the snow or sleet to tend your grill or smoker.

A cardboard bowl filled with best potato salad an a plastic fork resting on top.

Best Potato Salad10/15

Best potato salad ever. That's what folks are saying about this easy and, dare we say, elegant spud salad.

A bean pot of baked beans with a wooden spoon placed on a wooden chair

Appalachian Cider Baked Beans11/15

A stick-to-your-ribs recipe in which plain old pintos are doctored up with apple cider, onion, salt pork, molasses, and mustard. Amen.

Big glass bowl of layers of vanilla wafer banana pudding topped with sliced bananas, Nilla wafers, and whipped cream

Vanilla Wafer Banana Pudding12/15

Not a lot has changed since you last had this after-school classic. It's still easy. It's still quick. And it's still gosh darned comforting as heck.

A plastic container filled with vanilla bean ice cream with a metal ice cream scoop resting inside.

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream13/15

A classic, perfected. (Yes, we know, you've been promised this before by others. But we mean it.)

Brownies for a Crowd14/15

"So satisfying." "Cakey and chocolatey and everything a brownie should be." That's what folks are saying about this crowd-pleaser.

A tall glass filled with dark and stormy cocktail with ginger beer being poured in.

Dark and Stormy Cocktail15/15

It was a dark and stormy night...oops. We mean, this stiff yet slightly sweet cocktail is certain to thunder through your evening.