How to Make Napa Jack’s Holiday Poultry Brine + Video
Napa Jack’s Holiday Poultry Brine is a great idea for most any poultry, at any time of the year! Brining will do wonders to kick up the flavors, especially of your Holiday turkey, using this poultry brine recipe and directions. Until you try this method of preparing poultry for roasting, you won’t fully appreciate the fantastic results as your birds are more moist, more tender and have much more flavor, as the delicious...
How to Prepare a Brined Turkey for Roasting + Video
If you have never Brined a Turkey before cooking it, you are missing out on flavor & some really moist meat. A bird that has been brined acts differently when cooking it than a bird that didn’t take that salty, spicy dip. Advantages of Brining a Turkey: Flavor: The spices & salt in the brine really are imparted into the meat, giving you a more savory experience. Texture: The turkey will be kicked up in moisture content...
How to Quick Brine a Pork Loin + Video
I’m making a Quick Brine for a Pork Loin today, as I want to make something extra tasty for our celebration. Pulled pork is on the menu tonight, and I can’t wait…It’s one of my favorite dishes, done right, that is! Before I rub it with sensuous spices, I am going to quick brine it. I’m doing this quickly because that’s all the time I had. This brine is full of aromatics including apple and ginger,...
How to Brine a Whole Chicken + Video
The most effective, easiest and inexpensive way to impart flavor into your whole bird (albeit a chicken, duck, turkey, hen) is to use a brine. If you’ve never brined a chicken or turkey before, you really don’t know what you’re missing. The increased flavor intensity, as well as the moisture it imparts, and the dark, crispy skin it lends itself to, make brining an amazing trick in your flavorful kitchen. This is a...
How to Make Kimberly’s Ultimate Holiday Turkey Brine
Last year, I finally tried brining our turkey for the first time. We were all so very impressed that we said we’d never do it any other way again! Not only does brining impart fabulous flavor into your bird, but it makes it so much juicier as well. What we also noticed was that the turkey browned so much more evenly and more easily. I’m brining our turkey tonight and cannot wait to feast tomorrow! Try the...
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...
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...
Our Top 50 Cooking Shows of the Past 10 Years
We are sharing with you our Top 50 Cooking Shows of the Past 10 Years! Yup! Can you believe we have been on YouTube for 10 years?! How the time flies. Starting from a crappy webcam that filmed in shades of yellow, filming with an old camera phone, and then on to better clarity with newer cameras, our shows have evolved, to say the least. The way people cook & food philosophies have changed a great deal over the past decade, n many...
Our Top 25 Recipes of 2018
Here’s a great list of Our Top 25 Recipes of 2018 – made popular by YOU! 2018 was a serious year for all things food, and this list goes to show just what you were all searching for, eating & loving. Let’s make 2019 just as tasty! Tip: Click on the title of each recipe to go to the blog post with the recipe, and often including a video. Top 25 Recipes of 2018: 1. Down South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy...
Our Top 25 Cooking Shows of 2018
Here is a list of our Top 25 Cooking Shows of 2018 – basically, what you all made the most popular! 2018 was a great year, not just in life, but in the world of food too. We were blessed with a baby girl, in May of this past year, and she is a miracle. Plus, we enjoyed many a feast too! Tip: Click on the title of each recipe to go to the blog post with the video, and often including a recipe. Top 25 Cooking Shows of 2018: 1. How...
How to Roast Napa Jack’s Holiday Turkey + Video
Holidays are the time for turkeys, but for me, I love roasted turkey and could enjoy it any time of the year, especially when this recipe for How to Roast Napa Jack’s Holiday Turkey is used. There’s nothing like a golden brown, roasted turkey with crispy, tasty skin, and moist, juicy turkey meat. The savory aroma carries throughout the house, making taste buds dance & mouths water. Whether it’s Thanksgiving,...
Holiday Turkey Ideas: Thanksgiving Twists on the Traditional
If you’re looking for Holiday Turkey Ideas, then I have some Thanksgiving Twists on the Traditional for you. Let’s face it, most of us keep to and enjoy certain traditional dishes for the Holiday season, and we associate the very enjoyment of the holidays with the foods we most commonly prefer to eat. These foods warm us and seem to create comfort. The most obvious food is Thanksgiving and Christmas roasted turkey....
How to Can Mom’s Dill Pickles + Video
I am excited to show you How to Can Mom’s Dill Pickles with my amazing Mother! The recipe my mother uses is one where she combined my German grandmother’s recipe, and my Ukrainian grandmother’s recipe, and she came out with her own recipe which, in my opinion is the best of two worlds. Our family is wild about mom’s dill pickles. When I was away at university, mom and dad used to stock up my pantry, always...
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How to Cook Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy + Video
August 9, 2007| 5 CommentsIf you love #liver - then, you'll love my Down-South Smothered Liver & Onions with Gravy recipe! Okay, I really... -
How to Brine a Whole Chicken + Video
April 30, 2012| 3 CommentsThe most effective, easiest and inexpensive way to impart flavor into your whole bird (albeit a chicken, duck, turkey, hen)... -
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How to Marinate Sirloin Tip Steak + Video
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