Search results

Let me start by saying I'm not a Jewish. I'm actually a Roman Catholic. But I admire and respect the Jewish faith. A few weeks ago I was very ill with a virus and needed to stay in bed for a few days. While I was laying there, I learned how to check out ebooks from the library from my phone. So...

Today we had a huge craving for our special family chili adorned with homemade queso sauce. It was sweet, sweet, nectar! It was beautiful, a little bit of rice, topped with chili, topped with the queso sauce. With sweet buttermilk mini corn muffins on the side. Has any else tried queso sauce as...

It's the weekend after Easter and that's when I plan a special Easter meal for just my husband a day me. So we will be so far smoking a spiral sliced ham, some salmon for a friend, a meatloaf for later, and a chicken to bring into the office. The electric smoker has quite a bit of room. I...

I have decided that our new smoker's maiden voyage with be double smoking our Easter ham. I hear that it's better than the Honeybaked Ham Store this way. Does anybody else do this? How did you go about it and how did it turn out? Sent from my 831C using Discuss Cooking mobile app

We went traveling down South to Tennessee for my favorite cousin's funeral. It was very sad. She was only 44 but we ran into some fun on the way back. At an Amish store in Berea, Kentucky they were selling HUGE smoked chickens for only a $1 more than a Walmart roast chicken with more meat. So...

I was planning on making pork tamales in advance for our family Christmas party and then freezing them and reheating them Christmas morning for lunch. Can this be done and how?

My husband just won a nomination to be husband of the year! He bought me a cinnamon red Masterbuilt smoker from QVC-with accessories! Then he left the delivery box for me to find in the living room when I came home. I'm having a very hard time waiting until we can open it together on the...

Now that I have finished putting food up until apple season sometime around mid October, I'm having panic attacks about what could happen to my food stores. Botulism, freezer dying, earth quakes, tornados, hungry bears able to open canning jars. Do any of my fellow friends who put food by have...

I've learned recently how to render my own lard with pork leaf fat in a slow cooker. It was reportedly higher quality lard with no hydrogenated fats. Now, I'd used store bought lard before so I thought this stuff would be about the same. Nope. It's superior! I made my first batch of buttermilk...

Who are your greatly loved relatives that have passed away who were excellent cooks?

Since we're in the heavy canning, dehydrating, and freezing season, I thought it might be fun to ask everybody. Why do you chose home preserved foods over store bought? I think it's higher quality, better tasting, we're helping the little businesses and, as one person said on the venting...

So I found blueberries at Aldi for .99 a pint. So I bought 48 pints of blueberries and put them into my electric roaster to make blueberry butter. It's supposed to call for less additional sugar and we love the texture of fruit butters. This stuff turned out to be so good you could put it on...

Does anyone know if you can use the sodastream syrups without buying the sodastream? I thought of just buying a bottle of carbonated and adding syrup to it.

I'm dying to grill and smoke. But it's a little chilly yet in Ohio and we've just moved and need to get our house in order. As a way of pacifying my impatience I thought I'd ask the question: what is the first thing you're going to smoke or grill this season?

I just have to brag. I went to a real old fashioned butcher and they sold me ten lbs of leaf fat to make pastry lard, seven lbs of pork belly to make American bacon, and a large bag (a least 4 cups) of piggy cracklings! I tried convince hubby that the cracklings won't be any good but being a...

I altered this recipe to what I had on hand. I also believe that it can be "veganised". It is VERY important that you buy the green lima beans from the frozen vegetable section. Otherwise you won't get the same result and a much inferior dish. The recipe is meant for fresh vegetables but I have...

It's a thing of beauty and a piece of history. It's (and please forgive the language, keep in mind it was acceptable in 1948) A Date With A Dish: A Cookbook Of American Negro Recipes by Freda De Knight. The author was the first African American food editor. And it was the first non regional...

I've found a recipe for roast turkey coated on the skin with a peanut butter mixture. Intrigued as it could create a nice, crispy, brown skin. Has anybody tried this? What was the result?

Is it just me or is January an excellent month for meat deals? I found fifteen lbs of meat for $2.99 a pound at Save A Lot which I canned into seven, quart jars. Only one pound of waste! Then I wanted to can pork and I thought I'd have a hard time finding cheap pig meat. That same weekend I...

Lol the ribs were better than any rib joint Ive been to. the brisket was wonderful once we cut it correctly (I had the grain wrong at first, next time I will check the grain before I cook it). Little did I know there were easier things I could have cut my teeth on but I feel so accomplished...

I was looking at a YouTube video on one woman's way to make chunky potato salad. She had some excellent ideas. One of her ideas was to use both mayo AND (gasp) Miracle Whip. Her ratio was 1/4 Miracle Whip to 3/4 mayo. Bc I am a rare person that can see the benefits of both but prefer...

I make a delicious spinach salad as a base for my taco salad. I've yet to meet a person who doesn't like my spinach salad. Is there anything else you like to put on taco salad to make it your own?

I put natural casing wieners in in my smoker and smoked with hickory for one hour. The best dogs I've ever eaten. I served them with homemade Hawaiian hot dog buns and root beer BBQ sauce. Only thing I'd change is more smoking time and half sized buns. It ruined me for mere boiled hotdogs.

Since I have learned to smoke this year (food not tobacco) I thought I might smoked some pork and add it to my tamales. Any thoughts? Has anyone tried this?

I was only able to get the heat up to 185 according to two thermometers but I wondered if I was taking the temp from the wrong place (the top) when a lot of heat was generated at the bottom. I went with my gut feeling and put 6 bs chicken breasts sprinkled with my special house seasoning. It...