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"Especially for side dishes or dips. You put it all together ... Nothing screams an end-of-summer cookout like sauce-covered ribs, like Laidlaw's recipe as shared on Cooking by the Book.

Ahead of the Fourth of July, I tried making five different dishes that I would typically make for a cookout ... for about three minutes on each side until they were crispy and slightly blackened.