I’ve accumulated the recent spate of recipes here with links to the originating recipe sites.

Mostly, these are appetizers, side dishes, and desserts.  After all, I can’t give up the bbq rib recipe or I’d have to kill me.

• Post BBQ dessert; resistance is futile: Raspberry Buttermilk Cake (with photos)
• How to make southern fried sweet potato chips
• After the BBQ, Indiana persimmon pudding
• After the barbeque, dessert sweet treat: Burple Nurples
• BBQ side dish marinated barbequed vegetables
• Down home appetizer: fried green tomatoes
• Festive strawberry salad
• After the bar-b-q, have a slice of Elvis Presley cake
• Grilling side dish Grilled corn on the cob (with photos)
• Barbecue side dish recipe; spicy sweet potato fries
• Appetizer: Angels on horseback
• Before the Q salad; Frog’s Eye Salad
• Spicy mustard potato salad made with Colman’s mustard; not for the faint of heart.
• Even more mustard potato salad
• Try this dessert recipe: Tennessee Jam Bars
• After the grilling, how about some Arkansas cherry bounce?
• How about a little Arkansas Sin before your next cookout?
• Blackened Blue Cheese Burgers recipe. Made these and they’re fantastic!
• Another regional food: Cream of peanut soup
• Pre BBQ warm up, pecan stuffed deviled eggs
• Have a slice of this southern dessert favorite: Hummingbird cake
• Wash down the BBQ with this southern sweet tea recipe
• Enjoy this regional dessert favorite: sour cream and raisin pie

Tell us about your favorites in the comment section.

When my family requests a chocolate dessert, I shrug and hand them a Hershey bar. When I feel adventuresome, I check the smoke alarm batteries and squeeze cookie dough out of a plastic tube.

Yes, I can read recipes, but something always seems to be lacking in the finished dessert.

Nonetheless, desserts should be a food staple in the BBQ experience. When needed, I’ll scour the web and gather recipes for your use. From All Women’s Talk, here’s the 50 Best Chocolate Desserts.