The Outdoor Lifestyle Blog

When you're designing your outdoor kitchen and thinking of everything you need to make it perfect, don't forget to include some kid-friendly features! Because whether they're your own children, your nieces & nephews, your grandchildren, or even your neighbors' kids, you'll eventually have little ones running around, and you'll certainly want them to be as safe as possible as they join in on your backyard fun. Here are 4 easy ways you can make your outdoor kitchen safer for the children in your life:

What good is an overhauled backyard if you don't make the most of it by entertaining? We say you should put your outdoor kitchen and outdoor living room to good use and host a fabulous soiree for your friends and family! To pull off the perfect party, we've compiled these planning and hosting tips to guarantee your event will go off without a hitch!

One of the most fun parts about any home renovation is the chance to make the space fit your personality. And while we can help you build the bigger parts of your outdoor lifestyle (an entire barbecue island, for example), only you can add the fine details that will truly start to reflect your style. To help inspire you, here are 4 DIY projects you can try to personalize your yard.

Pizza is easily one of the most beloved foods of all time, which is highly understandable. Not only is it always a crowd pleaser, but it's affordable, ready fairly quickly, and can even be brought right to your door when you don'f feel like going out! And while all those other factors are great, our personal favorite thing about pizza is how versatile it is: you can have something as simple as a plain cheese pizza, or toppings as extravagant as caviar and lobster (we're serious).

To help you understand why that's our favorite thing about pizza, here are 4 wildly different pizza recipes that can be enjoyed starting at breakfast, all the way through your post-dinner dessert... a day-long pizza marathon! But first, you've got to have the perfect crust, and that means a lot of dough...

It would be a shame to spend all of your time and effort preparing a mouthwatering main course, only to find that what your guests remember later is the lackluster sides that went with it. Fortunately, we have plenty of great techniques and ideas on how to make your side dishes shine so the whole meal is memorable from start to finish. So, what are you waiting for? Let's get stared!

So over the last few weeks we've been helping you learn how to choose and prepare a delicious cut of meat, so this week and next week we're going to help you with choosing and preparing side dishes. Before we move on to chicken, fish, other meats, and veggies that are good enough to stand on their own, let's stick with steak for this post as we walk you through how to make some unique sides to accompany your meat for the perfect barbecue!

Have you ever found yourself looking at a menu or at a grocery store meat counter wondering, "What's the difference between all these meats? What makes one better than the other? Man, I'm hungry..." Well, we may not be able to help you with that last part, but we can certainly help you understand the differences in cuts of meat and explain what makes one better than the other.

Anyone can throw a piece of meat on the grill, but where's the magic in that? Sure, the meat is going to be pretty good on it's own, but it won't be bursting with flavor and may end up even being a little dry (*gasp*). Thankfully you won't have to worry about that because we're here to help you unleash your inner grill-master!

When you have an outdoor kitchen, you don't want to clean with harsh chemicals. Think about it, after one spray of a chemical-based cleaner or after one rain shower, those chemicals will quickly find their way into our air, soil, and water. Instead, take the green cleaning route; you'll be able to disinfect just as well without potential harm to your family and our environment.