A Killer Beef Rub Recipe

This beef rub tastes great on all red meats, including lamb and even duck breasts. It only has a teeny bit of sugar, so it can handle pretty high heat. I know baking soda seems weird here, but it raises the pH and helps create a better crust.
Pulled Pork Baked Potatoes: A Cook Once, Eat Twice Recipe

Weeknight meals don’t get much easier than this baked potato recipe that utilizes leftover pulled pork.
Key Lime Pie Martini Recipe

Who doesn’t love a cool, crisp, sweet-but-slightly-tart slice of key lime pie with that delicious graham cracker crust? This cocktail is a slice of the famed pie in a glass! Many recipes for a similar cocktail call for rather odd ingredients like coconut and pineapple – things that are not in the pie. Why? That […]
Chicken Sausage Recipe with Scarborough Fair Rub

Store bought chicken sausage has nothing on this flavorful homemade version featuring our signature Simon and Garfunkel rub. This recipe makes a fine link, but it can also be crumbled and mixed in with a creamy pasta sauce, used as the topping on a white pizza, and made into meatballs for chicken soup.
Conditioning And Seasoning A Pizza Stone

You should condition and season a new pizza stone or baking stone before using it. Here are simple instructions on how to do it so your pizza cooks perfectly the first time you use the stone.
Twice Baked Potatoes With Cheddar Cheese Will Set You Straight

Baked potatoes are so good that they become even better by baking them twice! For this method, I bake the potatoes whole on the grill, then mash and mix the cooked potato with spiced sour cream, stuff it back into the potato jacket, top it with cheddar cheese and bake it again. Potato nirvana!
Easy Tempura Beer Batter For Deep Frying

Tempura batter is light, lacy, and ultra crispy. It is ideal for deep frying vegetables and seafood. In this recipe, the bubbles from beer or club soda help achieve the right texture.
Classic Southern Biscuits And Gravy (Sawmill Gravy) Recipe

Here’s the recipe for creating perfect Southern style biscuits and gravy. Biscuits and gravy with crumbled sausage swimming in it are a breakfast staple all over the American Southeast. The gravy is a form of Bechamel Sauce. It is also called sawmill gravy, white gravy, cream gravy, or poor-do.
Easy Southern Biscuits Recipe

Southern biscuits are not as hard as some folks want to make them. These biscuits can be served nekkid, with butter and/or jam, with turkey and the fixins, with ham, smothered in sausage gravy, and as sandwiches. They can be used as a topping for fruit cobblers, pot pies, or chili baked in a Dutch oven.
Tired Of Boring Applesauce? Try A Spoonful Of This Soused Applesauce

Pork and apple go together like beef and potatoes. Here’s a recipe for a great variation on applesauce that’s perfect with all kinds of pork. It looks different from any other apple sauce you’ve ever tasted, and, my oh my, it tastes different, too. Rich, buttery and mellow, like apple pie without the crust.
Concord Grape Pie Recipe: Purple Passion

If you’ve never experienced grape pie then you’re sure to fall in love as soon as you try this recipe for the Naples, NY favorite. The recipe was perfected by the grape pie queen, Irene Bouchard, who started making the pies in the late 1950s and eventually grew her business to 18,000 pies a year at its height.
Foolproof All Purpose Pie Dough Recipe

Making delicious pies at home can seem like a challenge but here’s a simple recipe for making foolproof pie crust. Whether it’s sweet pies like apple pie or cherry pie or a savory pie like chicken pot pie, this is the only pie dough recipe you’ll ever need. It also freezes well so you can make extra batches for later.
The Best Darn Mustard BBQ Sauce Ever

In South Carolina BBQ sauces feature mustard. Here’s a mustard BBQ sauce recipe that amps up the flavor with herbs. It is especially good on pulled pork, pork chops, baked potatoes, pretzels, hot dogs, and so much more.
The Science Of Flour, Yeast, Baking Soda, And Baking Powder

Flour is the basis of bread, pizza, pies, cakes and cookies. It can be made from grains, seeds, beans, and even roots. Here we explain the different types of wheat flour like whole wheat, all-purpose, bread and cake flours as well as the importance of measuring flour by weight with an accurate digital kitchen scale.
Carving Makes a Difference in Tenderness and Appearance

You can ruin a perfectly cooked piece of meat by carving it horribly. Why? Because meat consists of long parallel muscle fibers. If you cut parallel to the fibers, they remain intact and are difficult to chew. When you slice across the fibers or across the grain, you make them easier to chew and hence more tender.