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Our site hosts one of the biggest collections of home-cooked, family-tested recipes on the net, with thousands of options to choose from! We feature recipes for the pellet grill, gas griddle, and all outdoor cooking methods, but you’ll also find lots of side dishes, drinks, desserts, Instant Pot recipes, and much much more.
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Favorite Recipes for the Holidays
Whether it is Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, 4th of July, or another holiday you like to get together with loved ones and celebrate, we’ve got your menu covered!
Don’t want turkey? We’ve got great Rib Roast, Ham, and Filet Mignon too.
Latest Posts
Homemade Sweet Chili Sauce
One of my favorite sauces to use to bring together a dinner is Thai Sweet Chili Sauce. I buy it in the huge bottles in the grocery store, and we use it on grilled chicken, over rice, or even over salmon for a quick dinner. I ran out of it the other day and didn’t want to go and buy more, so I decided to whip some up! Homemade Sweet…
Recipes Featuring Bacon
Bacon is my favorite breakfast meat, but it doesn’t have to be reserved for just the most important meal of the day. You can have bacon with any meal, and here is a collection of all of the recipes on…
Bacon Egg Breakfast Wrap
This easy breakfast wrap uses my homemade scrambled eggs and wraps them up with bacon in a flour tortilla before hitting the griddle for a quick browning, making the best bacon and egg breakfast wrap you’ve ever had! Bacon and…
Best Brunch Recipes
Brunch is such an important meal, and it is special around here. When you are combining two different meals into one glorious spread, you had better make it good. These brunch recipes are going to make you the talk of…
Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Fluffy scrambled eggs are not only possible, but also really simple to prepare if you know a few of the tricks for making them just right! Read on to find the best method for making perfect scrambled eggs, right at…
Traeger Grilled Sweet Potatoes
These delicious Traeger Grilled Sweet Potatoes are actually a combination of sweet potatoes and yams. Drenched in a butter and brown sugar sauce and then baked on your favorite pellet grill. Traeger Grilled Sweet Potatoes Sweet potatoes are a Thanksgiving…
Use CoSchedule + Zapier + Feedly to make sharing a snap
Sure, that was a mouthful, and THREE different (paid) apps is a lot of apps to use, but if time is an issue for you and is preventing you from showing your love and appreciate for the content that you…
Easy Easter Dinner Recipes
Break out the smoker or pellet grill and fire it up! We’re doing Easter, OrWhateverYouDo style and making as much of it as possible right on the grill. Join us for this jam-packed collection of Easy Easter Dinner Recipes, and…
Homemade Dry Pancake Mix
My shelf-stable Homemade Dry Pancake Mix is easy to throw together, and makes pancakes a snap. Keep a batch of this on your shelf for those hungry teenagers to raid, and just add water, and egg, and oil and you…
Traeger Smoked Turkey Legs
A big delicious smoked turkey leg is something that most everyone has had, or at least smelled. Whether at your local fair or at Disney, these Traeger Smoked Turkey Legs are a classic dish that is easily made at home…
Raspberry Margarita
What’s better than a regular margarita? A Raspberry Margarita, of course! This simple, classic cocktail will make a fan out of even the most reluctant tequila drinkers in your life. Raspberry Margarita Recipe Margaritas are a classic cocktail, but for…
Ground Beef Recipes
Ground Beef is such an amazing option for dinner. It can be made into SO many different things. In this post I’ve collected all of my very favorite recipes featuring one of the most popular meat options in the country,…
Traeger Grilled Brussels Sprouts
Traeger Grilled Brussels Sprouts are the Brussels sprouts you wish you tried before you decided that you hated Brussels sprouts as a kid. If anyone ever claims to not like these, if any version can change their mind – this…
Nicole Johnson
Nicole Johnson, a self-taught expert in grilling and outdoor cooking, launched Or Whatever You Do in 2010. Her blog, renowned for its comprehensive and creative outdoor cooking recipes, has garnered a vast audience of millions. Nicole's hands-on experience and passion for grilling shine through her work. Her husband, Jeremiah Johnson, also plays a pivotal role in recipe development, adding his culinary flair to the mix. Together, they form a dynamic duo, offering a rich and varied outdoor cooking experience to their followers.