MEMORIAL DAY RECIPES, Food Ideas, BBQ Tips, Beer, Cocktails, & More

For a smorgasbord of Memorial Day recipes, food, and drink ideas ideas, flip through the slideshow below. You'll find a host of recipes and ideas on all of the following traditional and non-traditional Memorial Day pleasures:

• Potato salad
• Deviled eggs
• Macaroni salad
• Cole slaw
• Spring vegetables good to grill right now -- and how to grill them
• Soft-shell crab
• Pulled pork
• Perfect prime rib
• Canned beer
• Picklebacks
• Pitcher drinks
• Popsicles

Plus:

• Outdoor tablesetting ideas
• The science of grilling and what you need to know when buying a grill
• How to properly grill a sausage

...and still more.

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Memorial Day kicks off Atlantic crab season, and as Max Watman writes on HuffPost:

Soft-shell crab season begins, according to lore, with the first full moon of May, which happened to come last Thursday, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. I've been looking forward to that full moon ever since I read the uplifting news that the harvest limits put into place a couple of years ago in Virginia and Maryland had worked. The blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay is higher that it has been in ten years. There's a lot of crab out there, and since Memorial Day is one of the grilling holidays, why not eschew the traditional batter and messy deep frying, and get right down to business with a good bed of hot coals?

Here's Max Watman's piece on how to grill soft-shells. And also check out Stefan Beck's "Excrabaganza: A Crab Quest on the Atlantic Coast"

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Memorial Day kicks off Atlantic crab season, and as Max Watman writes on HuffPost:

Soft-shell crab season begins, according to lore, with the first full moon of May, which happened to come last Thursday, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. I've been looking forward to that full moon ever since I read the uplifting news that the harvest limits put into place a couple of years ago in Virginia and Maryland had worked. The blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay is higher that it has been in ten years.

There's a lot of crab out there, and since Memorial Day is one of the grilling holidays, why not eschew the traditional batter and messy deep frying, and get right down to business with a good bed of hot coals?

Here's Max Watman's piece on how to grill soft-shells.

And also check out Stefan Beck's "Excrabaganza: A Crab Quest on the Atlantic Coast"

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Balzac said on 29 Saturday 2010 pm31 4:26 pm: I hope everyone enjoys Memorial Day weekend and those who don't have any friends or relatives who've been wounded or have had their lives claimed in America's wars will remember their country men and women and their families who've made this sacrifice in service of national defense.

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[KirkCLinn]

01:15 PM on 05/31/2010

Tipsy Potato Salad

5 lbs. Cut unpeeled boiled russets

The sauce

Four tablespoons each
Dried Rosemary
Dried Thyme
Dried Oregano
Add to 1 cup Dry Sherry to refresh herbs.
In a medium bowl mix with
1 and 1/2 cup mayo
1 cup whole grain mustard (don't use a horshradish mustard)

If you like Mix in 6 hard boiled eggs coursely chopped

Chill for up to two days (in our house it never lasts that long)

[Baculus]

06:35 PM on 05/30/2010

Here is another of my recipes: Home fries.

Ingredients:
Red or Idaho potatoes
paprika
Lowery's seasoned salt
garlic powder
Oil - olive, canola, or Pam.

1. Boil or microwave potatoes to softness.

2. Peel and "crumble" potatoes. For the microwaved taters I cut them in half with a knife, flip the halves onto a plate, and push the potato center out of the skins.

3. Make the home fry mixture. Here are the proportions (which I eyeball) -- whatever amount of paprika you dole out into a bowl, add 1/2 garlic power and 1/2 Lowery's seasoned salt. So if you add two tablespoons of paprika into the bowl, add one tablespoon garlic power and one Lowery's seasoned salt. Mix them together with a fork.

4, Fry the potatoes. Place a pan on medium temperature and add the oil. I use the Pam olive oil version to spray just a layer of oil into the bottom of the pan.

5. The oil will collect in small puddles when it is hot enough -- place taters into oil.

The objective is to (light to medium) brown the potatoes.

6. Add the home fry mixture. For the first side sprinkle the mixture onto potatoes. Don't over do it -- you still want to see some of the potato "white." Once one side is done, flip the potatoes over and do the other side.

7. Continue to cook further for a minute or two, flipping the potatoes several times. Don't overcook.

8. Serve and

[nailinpalinnow]

05:09 PM on 05/30/2010

Call me a peasant or a snob, but no amount of fancy writing is going to get me to drink pickle juice.

[clearthinker16]

05:53 PM on 05/31/2010

If I was thirsty enough maybe, but if you soak your hand in it, it helps the blisters.

[Pete Webb]

03:46 PM on 05/30/2010

Remember to take time to honor the men and women that served in the Military. Enjoy your friends and loved ones…Good Food and Good Company make a great Memorial Day Celebration!

[davidwayneosedach]

02:17 PM on 05/30/2010

Don't forget the Pimm's Cup!

[hauruck]

01:19 PM on 05/30/2010

"Emeril's German Potato Salad" sounds just like my Russian grandmother's potato salad, with very minor variations in proportions. I refuse to eat any other.

[rubio123]

10:19 AM on 05/30/2010

I support the veterans. I just wish we'd quit making them.

[KIVPossum]

03:50 AM on 05/30/2010

Picklebacks sound disgusting.

[Anthony OReilly]

10:01 PM on 05/29/2010

Half of America thinks this is all Memorial Day is about.

[kareemachan]

09:51 AM on 05/30/2010

I was just going to say something along the same line.

[nexxtep54]

09:08 PM on 05/29/2010

How about a Louisianan barbi with scallops and mussels in oil followed by shrimp in oil and then some game fowl in oil ending with dispersant?

[RasputinsLiver]

08:19 AM on 05/30/2010

Man, that's so funny in a very sad, macabre way.

[Mitzi Greene]

06:36 PM on 05/29/2010

No it doesn't "taste better than you think". Mint Juleps are just not good.YUCK!

[johnnygoodwud]

06:49 PM on 05/29/2010

how about ginger lemonade with a bit of vodka.

[nexxtep54]

09:08 PM on 05/29/2010

Great drink if you don't add the ginger lemonade.

[kareemachan]

09:52 AM on 05/30/2010

Almost like a "Hop Skip and Go Naked" - equal parts vodka and lemonade concentrate, and twice as much beer (don't try a stout or ale for this). They're really good.

[Deb Mac]

02:37 AM on 05/30/2010

I bought Maker's Mark and used Talk O' Texas okra pickle juice to try the Bourbon & Brine. It was outstanding. Especially when I added a bit of banana pepper juice. I love salty drinks. When they pack this kind of punch, even better.

[Balzac]

04:26 PM on 05/29/2010

I hope everyone enjoys Memorial Day weekend and those who don't have any friends or relatives who've been wounded or have had their lives claimed in America's wars will remember their country men and women and their families who've made this sacrifice in service of national defense.

[kareemachan]

09:53 AM on 05/30/2010

Seconded.

[MiHi]

04:04 PM on 05/29/2010

I'm a recent convert to "Flat Iron" steak. It's cut from the Chuck zone so it's affordable, but when done right it puts even sirloin to shame. You can even cook them on a George Foreman grill in less than 5 minutes.

Damn I'm hungry now. Hurry up, Monday! LOL!

[JDinBalt]

03:06 PM on 05/29/2010

When I was young, my mother used to add deviled ham to her deviled egg filling. I had no idea that this was unusual, but the first time I ate a "normal" deviled egg made by somebody else, I was completely taken aback. She doesn't use it anymore, but I may have to whip up a batch at some point.

[chachablix]

12:07 PM on 05/29/2010

Here's a memorial Day idea hp. Instead of paying tribute to mattress sales and potato salad recipes think about our soldiers who died.

[cyril10]

03:57 PM on 05/29/2010

THANK YOU!