Holiday Stuffing: Thanksgiving Twists on the Traditional
Looking for a that comforting dish of Holiday Stuffing, but with a Thanksgiving Twist? I really enjoy the taste and texture of my mother’s dressing, made with bread, celery and poultry seasoning with summer savory and gumbo file, because this is what my Mother always made for our Holiday turkeys. So, in order for me to feel like it is really Holiday time, my usual option is for turkey bread dressing – Mom style. Holiday...
How to Bake Buttermilk Plantains + Video
I’m going to show you How to Bake Buttermilk Plantains and what a great side dish or appetizer these tasty little chunks of goodness are. How to Bake Buttermilk Plantains: A change from the commonly served side dishes and what a delicious snack – quick to prepare and nutritious. Type: Side Dish or Appetizer Prep Time: 5 min Bake Time: 15 – 20 min Yield: 4 servings The ingredients & instructions are listed below...
How to Cook Vegetable Rice Stuffing for Poultry + Video
This is how to cook Vegetable Rice Stuffing for Poultry… One of my family’s traditional recipes, which we have enjoyed for a very long time. I hope you will enjoy it as much as we have! How to Cook Vegetable Rice Stuffing for Poultry: Of course, I am giving you the basic recipe, which you are free to customize to your own liking by switching up or adding ingredients you like best. Type: Side Dish Recipe Serve with: poultry...
Web Chef Review: Fern’s Ginger & Garlic Paste
Do you hate mincing garlic & ginger for all of your amazing ethnic dishes you love to cook? Check out Fern’s Ginger & Garlic Paste! You need this in your life to save time & clean up, as it’s super easy to use just enough out of the jar… This ginger & garlic paste is ever-so-finely minced to the point that it’s a highly concentrated paste. It almost melts into your cooking to infuse a wonderful...
A Champion’s Kitchen: Ode to Hot Sauce
Super Bowl XLVIII is around the corner on February 2nd, 2014, and you will find hot sauce on tables around the globe! Any self-respecting foodie that’s tailgating on Super Bowl Sunday has to have hot sauce in abundance for this event… Hot sauce is a condiment of champions. It’s hot, spicy goodness spiked with flavor & high octane, goes perfectly in breakfast, lunch, dinner, as well as savory beverages. Whether...
How to Cook Turkey Stuffing: National Stuffing Day
The 4th Thursday of November is National Stuffing Day! A day to itself for stuffing? Well, it’s so mouth-watering that I don’t begrudge giving it a day of its own. We enjoy stuffing so much at our house, that not only do we stuff our poultry, but we even make extra in a casserole to enjoy it for a couple days. My Mother-in-law made wonderful dressing, albeit different from mine, but she would bring us the most delicious...
Tips for Roasting Turkey: National Turkey Day
The 4th Thursday of November is National Turkey Day! How appropriate to have Turkey Day at this time of year? What would a Thanksgiving or Christmas celebration be without the proverbial turkey, one of my very favorite meals? Apparently, every nation has its own distinctive way to cook this International favorite. In recent years, I have been introduced to a couple of new ways to cook this wonderful bird. Turkey Tips: I’ve...
October Food Holidays & Events
Here are October Food Holidays & Events. Most of these holidays are based out of the USA, with others sprinkled in here and there. Find other months on The Year in Food Holidays & Events page. Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month: Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month: Easy Nutrition & Health Guidelines Browse Healthy shows, Healthy recipes Browse Organic shows, Organic recipes Browse Vegetarian + Vegan shows, Vegetarian recipes,...
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout Beer Review
Well, recently, when I made my New Year’s Seafood Gumbo, I tried a few new beers while I was cooking my roux. My new favorite beer, hands down for the moment, is Young’s Double Chocolate Stout. When I say it tastes like chocolate, I’m not kidding in the least. It tastes like a sweet chocolate bar, without being sweet, if that makes any sense at all. I believe it was 5.2% alcohol, and it is made with powdered dark...
How to Make Rice More Exciting
Now that you know how to tackle cooking any kind of rice, you need to know how to make it taste amazing. Don’t just always feed your family plain, white rice with butter and salt. Yes, this is awesome sometimes… …But you can really take your rice to another level, and make it something to take note of at dinner. Are you cooking Indian food? Why not add some curry powder or paste, some sesame seeds and green onion, or...
Happy New Year 2009!
I just wanted to wish each and every one of you a Happy and Blessed New Year! I also want to thank you all for such amazing encouragement, interaction and great friendships I have forged through this site! As I had mentioned a few blog posts back, we had some amazing seafood for dinner last night! As usual, our eyes were bigger than our tummies, but we were smart and made our feast as we felt like eating more. We had smoked oysters...
Seafood for New Year’s
I don’t know how many other people or families enjoy a seafood spread on New Year’s Eve, but we do!!! We always have… What’s on our table on New Year’s Eve? Well, we have white wine and garlic steamed mussels, curried steamed mussels, smoked oysters, steamed lobsters, steamed King crab legs, shrimp cocktail, and whatever else seems to be grand for the day! We always drink a sweet champagne or sparkling...
How to Bake Kicked Up Sweet Cornbread for the Bread Machine
Corn Bread is a Southern American staple with spicy food…Therefore, it is a serious staple in our household, as we love all of that spicy food. This is a family fave as EVERYONE loves it! Enjoy! ~ Kimberly Edwards 🙂 Type: Bread Recipe Serve With: Chili, Gumbo, Stews, Soup, Meatloaf Prep Time: 8 min Cook Time: 3 hrs, 30 min on Sweet Bread Cycle Yield: 1 loaf Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups water – lukewarm 1 1/2 tsp active dry...
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