Cookout Recipes

  • Creamy finely chopped coleslaw made with green cabbage, carrots, onion and buttermilk dressing

    Copycat Long John Silver’s Coleslaw

    April Lee Wiencek

    A Creamy, Sweet and Tangy Fast-Food Favorite This Copycat Long John Silver’s Coleslaw has finely chopped cabbage, carrots and onion tossed in a creamy buttermilk dressing. It has that sweet and tangy flavor and signature finely chopped texture people remember from the restaurant. My Long John Silver’s Love Story Years ago, I worked at a shoe store called Chens on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Two of the Polish girls I worked with, both named Agatha, ntroduced me to the chicken planks from Long John Silver’s. I am not a cooked-fish kind of gal, so the chicken planks were a…

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  • Firecracker Sausage & Potatoes

    April Lee Wiencek

    A Sweet, Spicy And Smoky One-Pan Dinner Firecracker Sausage and Potatoes is one of those dinners that looks like you did a lot more work than you actually did. Baby potatoes are roasted with smoky jalapeño cheddar sausage and sweet onions until the potatoes have crispy edges, the sausage gets…

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  • The Best Oven Baked Barbecue Ribs

    April Lee Wiencek

    Tender, Saucy Barbecue Ribs Without a Grill or Smoker The Best Oven Baked Barbecue Ribs are tender, tangy pork ribs made completely indoors without a grill or smoker. The ribs are first parboiled with onion, apple cider vinegar and salt until tender, then baked and repeatedly basted with a doctored-up…

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