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24 Amazing Ways to Top Your Hot Dogs

24 Amazing Ways to Top Your Hot Dogs

What are your favorite hot dog toppings? My tastes are simple, I usually eat my hot dogs with a line of ketchup, a line of mustard, and a scoop of sweet relish. If there is some chili around, I will add some of that along with some shredded cheese.

When you serve hot dogs, what sort of toppings to you offer your guests? Next time you have a barbecue, why not surprise and delight your guests by thinking outside the box when it comes to toppings. These toppings would also go well on hamburgers.
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Oriental Coleslaw Recipe

Oriental Coleslaw Recipe

One of my favorite things about summer and barbecues — especially potlucks — is the variety of salads you run across. My family prefers either potato salad or tuna salad so I don’t usually make any others. My favorite, however, is this Oriental Coleslaw. I rarely make it, but that is okay because it makes it extra special when I do!

This salad comes together quickly and I love all of the different flavors and textures. While it is perfectly fine to make the salad and serve it the same day, my personal opinion is that it tastes better the second day.
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How to Make Simple Melt-in-Your-Mouth Ribs

How to Make Simple Melt-in-Your-Mouth Ribs

Before I tried this for myself, I would have never associated the word simple with barbecued ribs and now this is the only way I will ever make them. This was my first attempt at making a rack of ribs… I will admit that the thought of cooking them intimidated me so I never bothered even glancing their way at the grocery store or butcher shop. What changed my mind? Free meat!

I guess technically it wasn’t free meat, I bought a $1 meat raffle ticket and was the lucky winner of this lovely rack. All of a sudden I was excited to experiment with this cut of meat that had previously made me nervous. Who ares if I make a mess of free meat?
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