Frozen foods were given a boost of popularity in the 1950s when refrigerators with freezers became affordable enough for many households to have in-house, especially when Swanson introduced the frozen...
French tomato soup, with its acidic tomatoes, can pick up a metallic taste when cooked in seasoned cast iron. To avoid that, this soup is started in a cast-iron pan,...
Back when we were an English colony, this Virginia recipe would have begun with a young barnyard fowl—killed, plucked, eviscerated, and readied for the pot. I have some notion of...
These muffins are chock-full of tasty goodness—pecans, coconut, oats, gobs of blueberries, and, of course, protein-rich chia. They have bumpy, rough-looking tops, but the insides are super moist. I like...
These extra-buttery, crispy-on-the-outside, soft-in-the-middle wonderfully addictive cookies are similar to the classic benne wafer, only larger. Serve them with tea or creamy coffee, or try them as sandwiches with a...
To add visual and textural appeal to this sandwich bread, we pipe on a topping that adds flavor and a quasi-exotic appearance (it’s sometimes called tiger bread). It is the...
As with any ingredient, but particularly meat, the quality will be influenced by the breed and by the farming practices. It’s not a level playing field so finding a butcher...
Also known as lima beans, butter beans are fantastic eating but it’s difficult to predict the cooking time of dried beans as it depends how old they are. Unfortunately you...