Grilled Green Beans

    Grilled Green Beans with Goat Cheese

    These grilled green beans use sweet red peppers, crispy shallots, and a balsamic marinade to bring these delicious beans to life!
    French Toast with Maple Whip Cream

    French Toast with Maple Whip Cream

    This French Toast recipe uses soft French bread and grated orange peel to create thick slices of toast with a subtle hint of orange topped with maple whipped cream.

    Timing is everything

    Learning Life Lessons from Making Jambalaya

    When you’re learning to cook certain dishes are important because they teach you something fundamental. It might be a new technique, a unique ingredient, or something as simple timing.
    Umami Old Fashioned

    The Umami Old Fashioned Cocktail

    The Umami Old Fashioned uses rye whiskey and orange bitters to create a delicious and drinkable old fashioned cocktail.

    Chicken and Andouille Jambalaya

    Chicken and Andouille Jambalaya

    Spicy andouille, crisp bell peppers, and chicken so tender that it falls apart come together to create a delicious Chicken and Andouille Jambalaya.

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    Apple Cider Smoked Pork Shoulder

    This smoked pork shoulder recipe uses apple cider vinegar as a brine along with smoking to deepen the flavor to create an amazingly tender and juicy pork roast.

    Apples all ready to go

    The Fall of Apple Crisp

    When I think about homemade apple crisp, I can still see the pan on the counter, feel my fork breaking through the crunchy crisp, and taste the apples.

    Grilled Burger

    Simple Grilled Burgers

    This simple burger recipe is easy to put together and shows why burgers became an American classic.
    Tender shrimp cocktail

    For Great Shrimp Cocktail Try Poaching

    Making shrimp cocktail at home is a lot easier and more affordable than you think. All it takes to make a tender and delicious shrimp cocktail that is full of bright flavors that highlight the shrimp is learning how to slowly poach the shrimp.
    Fall Apple Crisp

    Apple Crisp

    This homemade apple crisp recipe is easy to make and one of our favorite fall desserts. It has a fantastic topping and a mix of apples that balances sweet and tart.
    Shrimp Cocktail

    Tender Shrimp Cocktail

    For tender shrimp cocktail that tastes great try slow poaching the shrimp with some lemons and limes.

    Steak getting started on the Grill

    Steak Grilled Over An Open Fire

    There is nothing like steak grilled over an open fire. This simple rub in this steak recipe highlights the flavors from a real wood fire.

    Whiskey Sour

    Whiskey Sour

    This whiskey sour recipe uses a fresh tasting sour mix and egg whites to produce a frothy, refreshing drink.
    Teacher eats lunch with students

    Review: The Food of A Younger Land

    If you’re looking for stories on how to make ash cakes, the right way to skin a possum, or how to celebrate rivers filled with Pacific salmon take a read through Mark Kurlansky’s The Food of a Younger Land.