Flavored Butters Are Your Grilling Secret Weapon

Compound butter will make a grilled protein or vegetable so much better.

Compound butter is nothing more than regular butter—I like to use a good-quality salted butter for this purpose—mixed with a few other ingredients, such as herbs, citrus, chiles, even roasted strawberries. Photomailbox/Dreamstime/TNS

By Meredith Deeds From Star Tribune

We wait a long time for summer. When it arrives, we don’t want to miss any of it by being stuck cooking something delicious in the kitchen. But even though we don’t want to be chained to the stove, we still want our meals to be memorable.