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How to Make Alcoholic Ginger Beer: Upscale SuperBowl Treats
Feb06

How to Make Alcoholic Ginger Beer: Upscale SuperBowl Treats

This is Day Eight of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! It’s also SuperBowl today… We are making Ginger Beer – of course it’s alcoholic for SuperBowl! Easy recipe, delicious stuff…You must try this, especially if you’re drinking a “sub-par”, cheapish beer while you tailgate! Perfect, even if you’re just looking for a bit of a change. Yum! Type: Alcoholic Drink Recipe Serve With: Candied...

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Why You Should Never Throw Out Fruit Peelings
Jan26

Why You Should Never Throw Out Fruit Peelings

Don’t worry…I’m going to explain why you should Never Throw Out Your Fruit Peelings! At worst, they are added to my compost. At best, they are added to a batch of wine mash, I make a variety of tepache – typically, made with pineapple peels, but you can use other fruit peelings to make a version of tepache – or I make a fruit vinegar. I make small batches of these delights over the year. Never Throw Out...

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Podcast: Super Bowl Tailgating Treats with Kimberly on ‘Tim Denis in the Morning’
Feb02

Podcast: Super Bowl Tailgating Treats with Kimberly on ‘Tim Denis in the Morning’

Super Bowl Tailgating Treats with Kimberly on ‘Tim Denis in the Morning’: Video: Super Bowl Tailgating Treats with Kimberly on 'Tim Denis in the Morning' Playlist: Tailgating Recipes + Reviews Playlist: Appetizers, Snacks & Hors d'Oeuvres Playlist: Beer Recipes + Reviews Playlist: Alcohol & Cocktail Recipes + Reviews Playlist: Desserts & Sweets Recipes + Reviews How to Cook Down-South Smothered...

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A New Member for Fermenters Anonymous
Dec30

A New Member for Fermenters Anonymous

Once you decide to go ahead & try creating your own fermented treats at home, you may need Fermenters Anonymous! Someone should start Fermenters Anonymous, simply for avid lovers of fabulous home ferments to share their ideas, successes & failures. Trial & error – that’s how fermenters perfect their visionary projects. What Have We Been Fermenting? Wine: We often make our own homemade wine. This year, we went...

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Our Top 40 Cinco de Mayo Cooking Shows for 2019
May03

Our Top 40 Cinco de Mayo Cooking Shows for 2019

It’s the beginning of May, so let’s prepare you with here are our Top 40 Cinco de Mayo Cooking Shows for 2019! Let’s have a fiesta with the cooking shows & recipes you’ve made popular in Mexican fashion! Spicy, cheesy, savory, tangy, exotic & everything in between, this varied culture with both simple & complex dishes will astound your senses. In fact, Mexican cuisine is something I could not live...

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May Food Holidays & Events
May02

May Food Holidays & Events

Here are May Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here & there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Month Holidays: National Asparagus Month: Browse Asparagus shows, Asparagus recipes Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus Oven-Baked Asparagus with Blood Orange Grilled Lemon Zest Asparagus with Verjus Playlist: Asparagus Recipes + Reviews National...

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Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo & Green Pepper + Video
Apr15

Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo & Green Pepper + Video

Craving pasta? Try my Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo & Green Pepper! Follow step-by-step & cook your way to a delicious dinner for the family, with leftovers to spare. This pasta dish is filled with tasty ingredients like chorizo, mushrooms & green peppers, and with an easy tomato sauce that brings it all together, you’ll be the hero in the kitchen tonight. Baked Macaroni with Tomato Sauce, Chorizo &...

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Our Top 25 Cooking Shows for Spring 2019
Apr08

Our Top 25 Cooking Shows for Spring 2019

Spring has sprung & here are our Top 25 Cooking Shows for Spring 2019! It’s warmer outside, gardeners are getting their seeds in, plants are starting to spring forth from the ground, and our tastes are beginning to shift out of winter mode. Spring showers bring May flowers, or in our case, brought the birth of our baby girl, so this season is ever-so-special. It’s a time of rebirth & refreshing! People are breaking...

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Our Top 30 Cooking Shows for Easter 2019
Mar23

Our Top 30 Cooking Shows for Easter 2019

Here’s Our Top 30 Cooking Shows for Easter 2019 – shows that you all made popular! Easter has all the heartiness of a major Holiday, with a refreshing twist. Spring is in the air, at this time of year, in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway. Tip: Click on the title of each recipe to go to the blog post with the video, and often including a recipe. Top 30 Cooking Shows for Easter 2019: 1. Butter Roasted Corn-on-the-Cob Show:...

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Blood Orange English Ale Shandies + Video
Mar08

Blood Orange English Ale Shandies + Video

Brighten up your beer – make some Blood Orange English Ale Shandies! Add some citrusy tang with blood orange juice & zest to your ale & you have a cocktail worthy of any occasion. Whether you’re tailgating, it’s New Year’s, a birthday, St. Patrick’s Day, Father’s Day or a summer BBQ, this combination is sure to please everyone of age! Even the ladies will love this pairing of flavors, making...

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Web Chef Review: Great Lakes Brewery Pompous Ass English Ale
Mar07

Web Chef Review: Great Lakes Brewery Pompous Ass English Ale

Great Lakes Brewery Pompous Ass English Ale is sure to surprise & delight! This craft beer has the perfect name, albeit quirky & humorous, but it’s pompous in the most lovely way. Not only is it everything you would want a beer to be – yeasty & hoppy with some bitterness – it’s also smooth, and has a slightly perfumey aroma & flavor. I’m not sure what the splendid after-taste is – a...

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Clementine Blue Velvet Bubbly Cocktails + Video
Mar06

Clementine Blue Velvet Bubbly Cocktails + Video

Clementine Blue Velvet Bubbly Cocktails aren’t just beautiful to look at, they’re delicious as well! Made with Blue Curaçao & Sparkling Wine, and jazzed up with the zest of clementine oranges, these cocktails are sure to please the senses. Try these out for a signature bevvy on a birthday, anniversary, bridal shower, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Christmas – really any...

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How to Cook Shrimp & Squid Cajun Seafood Gumbo + Video
Feb22

How to Cook Shrimp & Squid Cajun Seafood Gumbo + Video

Shrimp & Squid Cajun Seafood Gumbo is definitely a food-of-love worth the time & effort it takes to create! This unique combination of flavors out of the deep south will tantalize your taste buds & warm your heart. Cook up this stew for New Year’s, Mardi Gras, or anytime you need a fix that reminds you of the taste of Southern hospitality, the moss dancing in the breeze on giant magnolia trees, and that bayou sound....

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