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Irish Soda Bread Doesn’t Need An Oven—Bake It On Your Grill

Irish soda bread in a cast iron pan.

You can bake bread on a grill? Yes! It’s super easy. The beauty of quick breads is that you don’t need any yeast. With this Irish soda bread recipe, you don’t even need an oven. With steady indirect heat and the lid down, your gas or charcoal grill functions like an outdoor oven. Luckily, Irish […]

Twice Baked Potatoes With Cheddar Cheese Will Set You Straight

Cheddar-infused twice-baked potatoes

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 Recipe

Platter filled with tempura battered fried vegetables.

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 Recipe (Sawmill Gravy)

biscuits and sausage gravy on plate.

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

Biscuits

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

apple slices

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

A whole Concord grape pie in a pie pan.

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 pie crust.

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 Science Of Flour, Yeast, Baking Soda, And Baking Powder

wheat kernel

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

graphic of teeth chewing meat that has been sliced in different directions.

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.

Pepe’s Style White Clam Pizza Recipe

drizzling oil on pepe's white clam pizza.

Pepe’s on Wooster St. in New Haven CT is one of the most famous pizza places in the world, and their most famous pie is the White Clam Pizza. Duplicating Pepe’s pies is impossible, but you can come close at home with the right ingredients, and a little love. Here’s the recipe for creating a delicious white clam pizza in your kitchen.

Pounding or Slicing Chicken Breasts for Perfect Even Cooking

Whole chicken breast with a chicken breast that has been pounded flat.

Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are among the most popular meats in America. But they have a problem. One side is thick and one is thin, so they don’t cook evenly. Pounding chicken breasts flat solves a lot of cooking and serving problems. Here’s how to make an even piece of meat quickly and easily.

Herbed Breadcrumb Crust Recipe

Plated breadcrumb crusted chicken with vegetables.

This delicious recipe for herbed breadcrumbs is not only simple to make, it’s also an great way to add a flavorful crust to countless dishes. This is a great basic herbed breadcrumb blend for use on a rack of lamb, chicken parts, pork chops, veal cutlets, fish, mushrooms, cauliflower, shrimp, zucchini, or others.

Stuffing Muffins Recipe

Stuffing muffins in a muffin tin.

Step up your next holiday meal with this delicious recipe for sausage, sage and cranberry stuffing inspired by Chef David Rosengarten. Instead of serving an entire bowl of stuffing, this recipe calls for baking it in muffin pans to get them nice and crispy on all sides. Everyone gets a stuffing muffin, aka Muffing!