Although BBQ recipes chicken can be pretty tempting and BBQ recipes steak are often mouth-watering, nothing beats pork BBQ recipes. According to the Food Network, pork remains the barbecue meat of choice, offering a variety of tastes and styles from dry-rub to wet rib.

“Dry-rubbed ribs are generously rubbed with a mixture of spices, smoked and then served with sauce on the side,” the Food Network tells us. “Wet ribs are lacquered with tangy barbecue sauce before, during and after cooking.” This is the basic gist, but if you would like to become a culinary master this summer, then you may want to find expert tips in one of the new books out now.

If you’re new to this whole grilling thing, then a good place to gather pork BBQ recipes and cooking tips would be one of the new cooking books out there. In “Soaked, Slathered & Seasoned: A Complete Guide to Flavoring Food for the Grill” by Elizabeth Karmel, you can learn about one of the award-winning ribs BBQ recipes most guarded secrets, which is the Bloodshot Mop.

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“Mops are a competition barbecuer’s secret weapon,” Karmel writes. To make, you pour a bottle of beer into a bowl, whisking to remove the carbonation, and add: 1 cup Spicy Hot V8 Juice, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, 2 tablespoons prepared horseradish, 1 teaspoon finely ground black pepper, 1/4 teaspoon sea salt, 1 teaspoon granulated garlic and 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce.

After mixing well, place sauce into a squeeze bottle and refrigerate until you’re ready to slather on briskets, chicken, pork or steak. In this book, you’ll also learn what meats are best soaked in marinade, slathered in sauce while cooking or seasoned.

If you’re looking for a book full of stories, tips, techniques and pork BBQ recipes, then try a new book by historian Ardie A. Davis and world champion chef Paul Kirk called “America’s Best BBQ: 100 Recipes from America’s Best Smokehouses, Rib Joints, Roadhouses and Restaurants.” If you’ve ever sampled cuisine from Alabama or Texas’s Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q, then you’ll know what an honor it is to have his grill/smoker secrets in your own book.

You’ll learn how to choose wood, rubs and seasonings, as well as prepare glazes and vinegar-based mops. One recipe you’ll definitely want to try is Big Bob Gibson’s Bar-B-Q White Sauce. Add hickory, pecan or oak wood to your grill first.

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Then combine 2 cups mayonnaise, 1 cup white vinegar, 1/2 cup apple juice, 2 teaspoons prepared horseradish, 2 teaspoons ground black pepper, 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.

Ideally, you’d submerge chicken in this recipe, refrigerating in the brine for 1 to 3 hours before grilling. After your grill’s at 400, you can plop the chicken breasts on and cook for 5-6 minutes per side. Use the sauce as a baste or for dipping.

According to the St. Petersburg Times, Memorial Day is a time for pork BBQ recipes. “Grilled Chops With Rosemary-Garlic Butter” is one of their recommended BBQ recipes pork offerings, as devised by Pillsbury.

To make, combine 1/4 cup softened butter, 1 tablespoon chopped fresh (or 1 teaspoon dried) crushed rosemary, 1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel, 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper and 1 minced garlic clove into a small bowl and blend well.

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You can make this ahead of time and chill it if you’d like for a better pork BBQ recipes. Next, heat the grill to medium or medium-high, brush both sides of four 3/4-inch pork chops with 2 teaspoons of olive oil and sprinkle them with 1/4 teaspoon of salt and pepper.

Grill your chops six minutes per side and voila, you’ve got one of the most exotic and delicious BBQ recipes pork has to offer!

How do you throw a Halloween Night party to reflect your interests and character? Film buffs may choose a horror movie night, the artistic may host a craft party, socialites may organize a block party and the refined may opt for an elegant dinner party.

There are almost limitless options for expressing your creativity, while entertaining your friends for some Halloween fun. After all, the bowl of candy outside should work out just fine for the few kids who do come around the neighborhood, yet for some, the night of October 31st is the perfect time to party!

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Comedian (”Strangers with Candy”) and Entertainer Extraordinaire, Amy Sedaris, recommends hosting a Halloween Night Movie Party. “The fun of the party to me is the movie I’m featuring,” says Sedaris, who personally recommends classics like Dracula and Frankenstein, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Trilogy of Terror, The Bad Seed, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Of course, there are countless movies from which to choose.

To create the in-home theater, she moves the TV to the center of the room and arranges cushy beanbag chairs and furniture around it so everyone can see. Then she places food trays around the room in accessible spots.

She serves meatloaf, mashed potatoes and corn because “you don’t have to see it to eat it” and she also highly recommends pumpkin pie dessert and pumpkin seed snacks. She likes to start the Halloween fun with a pumpkin carving activity too.

Drinks can include a Bloody Mary, a Berry Rum Punch, Sangria or a witch’s brew. Sedaris also recommends sending out invitations that look like a movie ticket or film reel, draping red velvet around the room, playing elevator muzak, setting up 25-cent concessions booths and throwing a few of the more traditional Halloween decorations around. “Entertaining alone is one of the most creative and rewarding experiences I can think of,” she concludes.

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Perhaps you’d like to plan a formal Halloween Costume Dinner Party. This is a great idea and works well if you’d like to make it a themed event. For instance, you could request that everyone dress up as pirates or in turn-of-the-century vampire/Renaissance costumes.

For the best results, do a little research ahead of time and find adult costume sites to direct your guests to visit. www.epicurious.com offers a full selection of Halloween recipes for you to choose from. Your food should be planned out, from the appetizers and drinks to a main course and desserts, served up in themed kitchenware for the most memorable dinner.

An easy October 31st festivity is to plan a “Murder Mystery Party” by using one of the many boxed game sets out there. You’ll typically receive character and costume suggestions for each person, music and decoration ideas, of Halloween, music suggestions and scripts.

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Check out www.dinnerandamurder.com, www.acemurdermystery.com, www.tailormademysteries.com, www.mysteriesbyvincent.com or www.host-a-murder.com for starters. Some kits allow hosts to download all the materials they need, while others offer more person-to-person party planning advice.

There are also murder mystery kits you can buy at game stores, notably the Bepuzzled brand “A Taste For Wine and Murder,” which comes with recipes, character booklets, invitations, a CD, secret clues and costume/decorating advice. Murder mystery games are great guides to hosting your first Halloween night party!