Hot Meat Recipes How-Tos

How To: Smoke a BBQ brisket

Brisket makes a tasty addition to your next neighborhood barbecue. Start with an apple vinegar brine, then add a spicy dry rub and mango juice. Now your brisket is ready to be taken outside and smoked (use a charcoal grill for even heating). And then you will have a delicious brisket!

How To: Smoke a Texas style brisket

A recipe for an authentic brisket, smoked Texas style. Start with a flavorful dry rub, then stock your smoker with hickory wood chips and leave it in for several hours. Halfway through, turn your brisket over and smoke it on the other side. At the end of it, you'll have a delicious barbecue brisket!

How To: Make Caribbean-style barbecue spare ribs

Treat yourself to some authentic Caribbean-style BBQ ribs, but don't run to your Caribbean restaurant just yet! You can make some sweet Caribbean barbecue spare ribs in your own kitchen. Try out this recipe from Wilma Browne Yarde and learn her enticing marinade for pork spare ribs that's remarkably easy to assemble. Eleven cloves of garlic go into the Caribbean-inspired green seasoning in the marinade, well known to islanders as simply "seasoning," and includes habañero pepper, cilantro, gin...

How To: Make a fondue out of meat

Fondue is a popular communal dinner dish, often served at a dinner party. This recipe teaches you how to make an oil and sauce fondue for meat (like chicken and beef). This unique idea is certain to wow guests at your next get-together.

How To: Prepare and cook pork leg tamales

Learn how to cook tamales! Pork leg hot tamales, to be specific. Add a whole onion to a pot of boiling water, along with four cloves of garlic. Next, add the pork leg meat and a little salt and cover it, letting it cook for about 1.5 to 2 hours. That's just how you get the meet prepared. Watch the whole video to learn about prepping the New Mexican chili peppers and the finishing touches.

How To: Grill barbecued spareribs with oil and dry spice rub

Before you get down to grilling, learn the difference between the three different types of ribs at the grocery store. One kind is country-style ribs, which really aren't BBQ ribs, they're more like pork chops. The two that are good for BBQ are baby back ribs and spareribs. Baby backs are a little leaner than spareribs, but spareribs are easier to barbecuing. Now that you know a little bit about ribs, learn how to prepare the spare ribs with a dry rub of your choice (no barbecue sauce!) and th...

How To: Make a sauerkraut & pork chop dinner

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a sauerkraut & pork chop dinner. You will need: 1 32oz jar of sauerkraut (rinsed and drained), 4 (10 oz) pork chops, 1 lb Kielbasa cut into pieces, 1 sliced medium onion, 1/2 lb diced bacon, 1 tbsp caraway seed, 3 tbsp vegetable oil, 3 c chicken broth, and salt/pepper. First, brow your bacon over medium heat, then add in onion kielbasa, sauerkraut, caraway, and chicken broth. Let this come up to a boil, then let it simmer for 30 minutes while it's covere...

How To: Avoid dried out deer using a bbq

In this video, we learn how to avoid dried out deer using a bbq. First, heat up your smoker and add in hickory chips. First, take the deer out of the package and run them under water to clean off. After this, place into a large dish, then rub table salt onto both sides and take the meat out to the smoker. The smoker should be 200 degrees before you place the meat. Place the meat onto the cooking racks and then close the door on the smoker. Check on the meat after one hour and make sure your f...

How To: Make BBQ pork ribs in the oven

In this tutorial, we learn how to make BBQ pork ribs in the oven. First, place your ribs into a large pot then cover with your favorite types of seasonings. After you have thoroughly coated your meat with a dry rub of spices, cut an onion and place it inside the large dish with the meat. Next, add in a bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce to the ribs and make sure they are completely coated. After this, place a bit of water on the bottom of the pot and then place inside the oven and cook until t...

How To: Test hickory shavings when smoking meat

In this video, we learn how to test hickory shavings when smoking meat. If the chips are completely black, then you cannot use these any longer and they have been smoked too much. You can use sawdust from hickory shavings, just make sure it is hickory. If you cannot tell, then you can use hickory chips that are larger than sawdust and smell like hickory. After you buy these, you can use them inside of your smoker to have the best taste when you smoke your meat inside of the smoker. Once the c...

How To: Make Beef Teriyaki Stir Fry

My girlfriend and I enjoy making this dish together at least two or three times a month. It still remains one of our favorite things to make during the week. Its fun to make and dose not take a lot of time out of our busy schedule. The meat is extremely tender and tasty when its made right. This meal is also very inexpensive witch for me makes it taste even better. We use frozen vegetables to keep things quick and easy. You can chop your own and use fresh vegetables; it's all up to you.

How To: Make grilled Spanish mustard beef/carne asada

Carne asada means nothing more than "grilled meat" in Spanish, and it can be prepared in a myriad of different ways to produce anything from chopped beef for a taco to a whole beef cut to be enjoyed with a side salad. If you're a beef man and/or are looking for a new recipe that'll be succulent on the grill, then check this one out.

How To: Make a smoked pulled pork sandwich with a great dry rub, marinade & cole slaw

Making a pulled pork sandwich requires great skill, and the best kind of pulled pork sandwich comes from the smoker (if you're lucky enough to own one). A smoker is the absolute best way to cook pork!Mark Patuto mixes a sweet dry rub to get things started and a citrus, brown sugar, honey and apple cider vinegar marinade-type spray is added every 10-15 minutes over the course of 4-5 hours! How good does that make the finished product? Killer!

How To: Make healthy lamb kebabs with hummus

We love Moroccan restaurants. The communal handwashing, the savory salads, the soups, the braised lamb appetizer, the pigeon pie, the baklova - oh, and there go our diets. Moroccan food is known for having a very rich and spice-ridden flavor that many foodies enjoy, but the more we let our appetites go at the restaurant, the more our waistlines go with them. But there is a way to make Middle Eastern food without turning into a piggy.

How To: Make a crispy chicken French recipe

As a side note, "chicken French" is actually a very misleading name for this recipe. After all, the way this chicken is prepared is in no way French, but rather comes from the Rochester region of New York. But whatever its origins, we're digging the digging the crust's crispiness, created by dumping the chicken in seasoned flour and then dumping the chicken into an egg mixture.

How To: Make a flavorful tandoori turkey

You haven't tasted the full potential of turkey until you've cooked it tandoori style. Just a bit of background: Tandoori means baked or cooked in a tandoor, or a cylindrical clay oven fired to a high heat by wood chips or charcoal. The clay oven, combined by the method of firing, imparts a very harmonious and satisfying mixture that sinks in to everything it touches.

How To: Make chicken liver and shallot paté

Normally we all toss the liver away when we prepare a chicken feast, but maybe we should all curb that instinct from now on, because you can do wonderful things with chicken liver, like make homemade pate. Sydney Oland walks us through a savory chicken liver and golden sherry paté. An overnight marinating process takes some planning, but a quick sauté of ingredients, plus a gelatin and sherry topping are a snap. A cornichon pickle garnish adds tang and a splash of color. Chill and you'll have...

How To: Make a classic chicken piccata

What sounds better than chicken with lemon, parsley and butter? Nothing! And it's called chicken piccata. Danielle Ahern shares this classic recipe, which includes the use of only one sauté pan. Can't beat that. Boneless chicken breasts are pounded thin which results in a quick cooking process. A butter, lemon juice and caper sauce is reduced to a smooth texture and poured gently over the plated dish. Garnish with fresh lemon and parsley and you're done. Great idea for a weeknight when you're...