Memorial Day Weekend is upon us, and with it, a chance to break out your grill for the season. To help get things started, some local restaurants have put together their own Memorial Day Weekend kits. Four different grill kits are available at Sweet Cheeks Q in the Fenway, featuring dishes like pulled pork, potato salad, buttermilk biscuits, beer can chicken, Texas-style hot links, and more. The Smoke Shop BBQ is offering a weekend barbecue box, stuffed with smoked chicken, pulled pork, cornbread, coleslaw, butter cake, and other barbecue delights, while Myers + Chang is selling a picnic box full of chicken wings, edamame dip, spicy green papaya slaw, pork spare ribs, Chinese mustard potato salad, and Oreo cookies. Kits will sell out, so be sure to order as soon as possible.
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When we asked Boston.com readers where to find the best empanadas in Boston, we received close to 40 recommendations. From empanada stands at farmers markets to Colombian restaurants in East Boston, respondents praised dozens of restaurants for their creative empanada fillings, variety of dipping sauces, and takeout and delivery capabilities, with one reader sharing that an empanada company’s home delivery option “has seriously kept us alive during the pandemic.” That’s nothing to scoff at.
Of course, some readers felt that the dish was best when made in their own home. Stefan Ferrari-Peinl in Charlestown wrote that the region’s top empanadas were “in our kitchen, where my Argentinean wife prepares the best meat empanadas with olives, egg, and onion based on her grandmother’s recipe.” Matty from Malden agreed, writing “My kitchen, because my gf and I are great at making them!” Ok, so when can we come ov