The Grill Recipe Collection

Sixteen recipes made up the original site's grilling collection - a snapshot of mid-2000s backyard cooking that has aged remarkably well: serious beef, honest burgers, and a seafood lineup that still feels fresh. Every recipe is restored on its own page with full ingredients and method. Cook to safe internal temperatures and you cannot go far wrong.

Beef on the Bone (and Off)

• Grilled Steak Santa Fe - frozen margarita mix is the secret to this marinated top round with avocado and red onion. The collection's signature.
• Grilled T-Bone Steaks & Peppers - T-bones and quartered bell peppers under garlic-scallion butter.
• Red, White & Beef Salad - salsa-marinated steak sliced over a black bean, corn and lettuce salad.
• Caesar Beef Kabobs - sirloin, new potatoes and vegetables skewered and glossed with Caesar dressing.
• Buffalo Steaks with Grilled Mushroom and Garlic Gravy - the collection's showpiece: spice-rubbed buffalo strips with a portobello red-wine gravy.
• Beef Ribs with Cabernet Sauce - rubbed, seared, then grilled low and slow in a wine-spiked barbecue bath.

Burgers and Pork

• Italian Garlic Bread Burgers - burgers on grilled mozzarella garlic bread with tomato and basil.
• Classic Bacon Cheeseburger - the canonical build, done properly: 80% chuck, sharp cheddar, crisp bacon.
• Barbecued Pork - soy-and-red-wine marinated tenderloins, grilled and sliced on the diagonal.

From the Water (and the Appetizer Tray)

• Grilled Artichoke and Spinach Dip with Pita Wedges - the party opener, baked right on the grill.
• Grilled Sea Scallops - skewered scallops in lemon-garlic butter.
• Grilled Salmon with Strawberry Salsa - the sleeper hit: honey-glazed salmon under a cucumber-strawberry salsa.
• Skewered Salmon - lemon-thyme salmon cubes, cooked without turning.
• Grilled Stuffed Swordfish - ginger-soy marinated steaks stuffed with dressed arugula.
• Grilled Texas Shrimp - tequila-chile shrimp with a simmered pepper sauce.
• Grilled Garlic Shrimp - garlic-butter skewers with basil and crushed red pepper.

Before You Light the Fire

New to the grill - or rusty? Three pages make the whole collection easier: the three cooking methods (most of these recipes specify direct or indirect heat), the hand-count temperature gauge, and the marinade library these recipes draw on.