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Grilled pizza with mushrooms and pepperoni is a terrific outdoor dinner

Chewy crust, melted cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms, and red peppers all get a good dose of smokiness and a touch of char. Prep one pizza as another is grilling because they’ll get eaten as fast as you can make them. Adapted from Bob Sloan | Dad’s Awesome Grilling Book | Chronicle Books, 2009 Your grill always needs to be clean before you toss something on it, but it needs to be especially clean to make pizza. The extra fussing is definitely worth it. If you’ve never tasted a pizza fresh off the grill, you are in for an incredible surprise. If it were easier to do, grilled pizza would be the standard. Not that it’s wickedly complicated, just more so than...

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s Shrimp tempura is a delicious Japanese dish that often acts as an appetizer, but a great shrimp tempura recipe can also make for a crispy, full meal of fried shrimp, too. This is a common dish ordered in Japanese restaurants, but can you make shrimp tempura at home too? We'll walk you through how to prepare this Japanese recipe. Making Shrimp Tempura View this post on Instagram A post shared by JENNIFER🤤 (@foodiejenni) For shrimp tempura made at home instead of in a Japanese restaurant, most recipes call for jumbo or large shrimp, all-purpose flour, Panko breadcrumbs, large eggs, a cooking oil like vegetable oil or canola oil for the hot oil needed for the deep fryer, and occasionally potato starch or cornstarch. That's all to...

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These soft beer pretzel twists have beer inside the actual dough, leading to a more complex, deeper flavor

Perfect for parties, game night or just a snack! Jump To Recipe I’m not much of a drinker, though somehow I always have beer in my refrigerator. I do occasionally crack open a bottle to drink, but more often the beer is an ingredient in whatever I’m making. For example, I use it in my beer cheese dip which is probably the best thing ever to accompany my homemade soft pretzels or to smear on my pretzel buns for a third cheese on my double cheeseburger. But then I realized why not just add the beer into my soft pretzel dough? The resulting soft beer pretzel twists have to be my new favorite thing! What are soft beer pretzel twists?...

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So crispy, so sticky, so finger-licking amazing!!! Plus, the homemade Ranch? MIND BLOWN

Pass the beer, please!!! You guys know how much I love Game Day food. Just give me all the finger-licking goodness because you know I ain’t watching the game. Nope, my eyes are glued to the ice cold beers and the sticky, glossy, super-saucy, honey buffalo wings, waiting to be dunked, smothered and fully swimming in that homemade Ranch. Serve with celery sticks, extra beers and lots of napkins. They’ll come in handy! Side note: You can, of course, use store-bought Ranch if you’re short on time but seriously, nothing beats the homemade version. Honey Buffalo Wings with Homemade Ranch Yield: 6 servings prep time: 30 minutes cook time: 55 minutes total time: 1 hour 25 minutes Pass the beer, please!!!...

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So crispy, so sticky, so finger-licking amazing!!! Plus, the homemade Ranch? MIND BLOWN

Pass the beer, please!!! You guys know how much I love Game Day food. Just give me all the finger-licking goodness because you know I ain’t watching the game. Nope, my eyes are glued to the ice cold beers and the sticky, glossy, super-saucy, honey buffalo wings, waiting to be dunked, smothered and fully swimming in that homemade Ranch. Serve with celery sticks, extra beers and lots of napkins. They’ll come in handy! Side note: You can, of course, use store-bought Ranch if you’re short on time but seriously, nothing beats the homemade version. Honey Buffalo Wings with Homemade Ranch Yield: 6 servings prep time: 30 minutes cook time: 55 minutes total time: 1 hour 25 minutes Pass the beer, please!!!...

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