Once the grill is lit, dinner is half done. Here are the season's favorites – from tender ribs to quick skewers that are ready while the table's being set.
A two-zone grilling method and a five-ingredient rub give you wings that are cooked through and genuinely crispy — no flare-ups, no guessing with a knife.
Three hours of hands-off oven time turns a rack of ribs into a fall-off-the-bone Sunday dinner, finished with a sweet-smoky glaze.
Bite-sized chicken, pepper, and onion skewers with a 30-minute marinade — cut for small hands and ready for grill, skillet, or broiler on a busy weeknight.
The Friday-night burger tradition built around a kid-run toppings bar — 15 minutes prep, 15 minutes on the grill, no fighting over the plate.
The cheapest cut on the grill, saved from drying out by a five-minute BBQ marinade you can set going before you even start dinner prep.
A dark-beer-marinated chicken skewer dinner where the real work happens the night before — kids help thread the skewers, you just light the grill.
Quick grilled chicken skewers with a sweet peach-almond dip mild enough for kids — ready in 20 minutes and just as good cold in tomorrow's lunchbox.
Rub the ribs Friday night, let the smoker do the work Saturday, and land the whole afternoon on one platter with coleslaw and creamy corn.
Pork shoulder is the cut with the most fat and flavor in the whole pig — three and a half hours of low, slow heat turns it tender without any fuss, and there's enough left over for Monday's lunch sand
A simple grilled salmon fillet recipe for summer weeknights — olive oil, garlic and lemon marinade, ready once everyone's home from school pickup.
A quick soy-ginger-lime marinade turns salmon skewers into a five-minute grill, with peanuts and cilantro served on the side so everyone can top their own.
Grilled salmon and asparagus finished with a silky French butter sauce — on the table in about 35 minutes, built for a quiet dinner for two.
Slow-roasted overnight-marinated spareribs finished with a sticky barbecue glaze on the grill — a low-effort, high-payoff weekend dinner for a crowd.
Salmon, pasta, and asparagus steam in foil packets with a creamy lemon pesto sauce — ready in 10 minutes on the grill, no cleanup required.
Pre-cooked spareribs turn into a low-effort family dinner in under 30 minutes — hands-on eating, sauce on the side, and no separate kids' menu required.
A foil-packet salmon dinner that steams itself tender on the grill in about 20 minutes — no pan, no fuss, and each packet can be seasoned differently for picky eaters.
Two hours in the oven does the tenderizing; the grill only needs 15 minutes to add smoke and glaze — a method that works on a charcoal kettle, a gas grill, or a small balcony unit.
A Cuban garlic-citrus marinade that turns chicken thighs into a make-ahead weekend grill dinner — mix it Friday night, cook it Saturday.
Pork chops off the grill in minutes, paired with a no-mayo pasta salad the kids actually finish — dinner on the table in under 30.