Recipe Ideas for the Fourth of July

A collection of crowd-pleasing recipes for all your summer entertaining needs. These recipes all look great, don't cost a lot to make, and don't require any special culinary skills. Summer party food needs to be easy and delicious, and these recipes are certainly both.

Break that backyard barbecue boredom with some fresh takes on the old grilled chicken routine. While these recipes are wonderful cooked over those glowing coals, they can also be easily adapted for the oven, or broiler.

Here is a great collection of barbecue sauce recipes from all across America. From thick and sweet, to thin and tangy, these barbecue sauces are all fast and easy to make. No matter which meat you decide to barbecue, one of these delicious sauce recipes will work perfectly.

Grilling fish, and other seafood, imparts a delicious smoky flavor, as well as an attractive set of caramelized grill marks. Here are the top five choices when it comes to easy, delicious, and disaster-free grilling.

No matter how great your ribs are, or how tender the grilled chicken, if the side dishes are lacking, your summer spread is just not all it could be. Here are six crowd-pleasing side dish recipes to make your meal complete.

Here's a top 10 countdown of recipes and preparations using one of the stars of summer eating - the sweet, and perfectly ripe tomato. After suffering with pink, mealy supermarket tomatoes all winter, there's nothing that says summer like a beautiful, just-picked tomato.

There is nothing better than freshly boiled corn, slathered in butter, sprinkled with salt, and eaten right off the cob. It's truly one of life's great pleasures.

A garlic and herb marinade, and the smoky juices from grilled oranges, makes this fennel-crusted flank steak recipe special.

Whether it's a plate of peanut butter cookies for the end of the picnic table, or a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream for that bowl of fresh fruit, these easy summertime sweets and dessert recipes don't take much time or effort, and are all proven crowd-pleasers.

Why make a regular cake recipe, when you can use some fresh strawberries and blueberries to create a beautiful and delicious Fourth of July flag cake? This cake is so pretty, you'll want to make even if it isn’t the Fourth of July!