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Outdoor cooking is the perfect solution for summertime hot weather meals, and often just a great excuse for a backyard barbecue party.

Whether your barbecue is a simple metal charcoal grill or a super state-of-the-art gas grill and smoker, these recipes for marinades, barbecue sauces and other ways to turn a simple hamburger into a fancy feast will have your guests raving about your skills as an outdoor chef.

Fish, meats and vegetables all taste great cooked on the barby, and what a great way to keep the kitchen cool! Shrimp, prawns, lobster and salmon are also among the healthy, low fat and low cholesterol alternatives for backyard meals.

Sausage, steaks, hamburgers and hotdogs, chicken and pork all taste better with the grilled flavor that only comes with an outdoor barbecue. So gather your sauces and grilling forks - it's time for some delicious summer barbeque cooking...

Along with top web resources just up ahead, also discover our very own collection of finger-lickin' favorite barbecue recipes and party ideas ....

More about grilling and barbecue recipes around the Web:

BBQ Porch Recipes - From breads and soups to steaks and ribs you'll find the recipes here that you're looking for. This is the official website of the Smoke Ring BBQ Mailing List. They've been sharing their best secret recipes with the Web since 1998.

Outdoor Grilling - Safety tips, plus recipes and easy ways to bring out the flavor in barbecued meals, plus a couple of good ideas for marinades - from the University of Illinois Extension.

Barbecue Food Safety - U.S. government site reminding us that bacteria is not our friend, with instructions on how not to let it ruin a good barbecue, and covering the basics of food handling & transportation plus more on storage, cooking temperatures, marinades, safe smoking and pit roasting.

Barbecue Recipes - A great store of delicious dishes including Barbecued Orange Chicken, Tex-Mex Barbecue and Swordfish Kabobs along with a how-to on planning a beach barbecues.

BBC- Barbecue Basics - Expert advice from the UK for the newbies among us, with easy ways to barbecue, related recipes, planning guides and safety tips. And surf around the rest of the site for more advanced techniques and a guide to what wine to serve at a barbecue.

Barbecue Blue - Turn it up a notch with this Aussie 'barby' encyclopedia with background info on how Australia took the American tradition to a backyard art form, including recipes and menu suggestions, fuel safety & equipment guides, suggested books, related links.

The Smoke Ring - A traditional Web ring of like-minded sites in a recipe competition - where visitors win. Check out the best of member site concoctions for barbecue rubs and sauces, fish bastes, recipes for cornbread and cole slaw, plus how-to's for building your own barbecue pit, tips on indoor winter grilling, and lots more.

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