16 Recipes For Your Last Outdoor Cookout Before It Gets Too Cold

One of the reasons we love summer is the endless cookouts. Having friends and family over every weekend for a grilled feast in your backyard or garden is one of best ways to while away a sunny Sunday. We'll be sad to say goodbye to our favorite cooking season, but while the sun is still shining, and it's still fairly warm outside, we're determined to give these warmer months a real farewell party with one last cookout featuring all our favorite late-summer dishes.

Begin your last cookout with this appetizer that plays with sweet and salty flavors in the most addictive way.

For the Bacon Wrapped Grilled Peaches With Balsamic Glaze recipe, click here.

Grilled salad has been our discovery of the summer, so you better celebrate it one last time using these more autumnal, slightly bitter radicchio leaves.

For the Balsamic-Grilled Radicchio With Shaved Pecorino recipe, click here.

Make sure you eat all the corn you can before the season is over: Our favorite way to serve this sweet vegetable is coated in this spicy, Mexican dressing.

For the Elotes Callejeros recipe, click here.

Indulging in messy finger food is one of our favorite things about summer cookouts. These spicy, sticky chicken wings tick all our outdoor grill party boxes.

For the Grilled Chicken Wings With Jalapeño Barbecue Sauce recipe, click here.

Make a batch of quesadillas on the grill before the warm weather disappears to remember just how much tastier this dish is when cooked outside.

For the Grilled Cumin-Lime Zucchini Quesadillas recipe, click here.

Grilling eggplant is definitely the quickest and easiest way to eat this vegetable. Tossed with salty goat cheese and plenty of fresh herbs, this salad is a wonderful grilled side dish.

For the Grilled Eggplant and Goat Cheese Salad recipe, click here.

Hearty summer squash takes on the spicy, green, herby flavors of the chimichurri sauce, making this the perfect end-of-summer vegetable dish.

For the Grilled Garlic and Summer Squash Skewers With Chimichurri recipe, click here.

Don't forget about how wonderful grilled fish is as you rush to throw all your favorite summer recipes on the grates: Make this sweet and spicy salmon recipe now, and you'll be craving it until next summer rolls around.

For the Grilled Glazed Sweet and Spicy Salmon recipe, click here.

Please everyone at your end-of-season party by kicking of the meal with this warm, freshly grilled garlic bread.

For the Grilled Herb Garlic Bread recipe, click here.

Summer's peaches are quickly disappearing: Use up the last of them in this sweet, almost caramelized, grilled cobbler.

For the Grilled Peach Cobbler recipe, click here.

Grilled polenta, made with fresh corn and extra Parmesan, is a salty, rich side dish that really does go with everything.

For the Grilled Polenta With Corn and Parmesan recipe, click here.

Why have a regular, mayonnaise-coated, boiled potato salad when you could have grilled potatoes tossed with blue cheese and ripe tomatoes?

For the Grilled Potato Salad With Basil, Blue Cheese, and Tomatoes recipe, click here.

Grilling pizza is by far the easiest way to cook it at home, so make sure you take the opportunity to cook pizza for your party yourself before you return to a winter of eating take-out.

For the Grilled Sausage and Fennel Pizza recipe, click here.

Jazz up your regular grilled shrimp by coating them in salty, umami-rich miso butter, which gives them a real flavor boost.

For the Grilled Shrimp With Miso Butter recipe, click here.

Grilled chicken has a reputation for being totally underwhelming, but that definitely won't be the case when you marinate the meat in this Thai sauce.

For the Thai Marinated Grilled Chicken Skewers recipe, click here.

Say goodbye to the last warm days of the year with one last burger. As your last, it should be suitably decadent.

For the Ultimate Sriracha Burger recipe, click here.