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It’s Time to Cook and Eat at Home! Explore recipes, ingredients, cuisines, techniques and more and learn how you can cook delicious food and eat at home. Learn how to use ingredients, some familiar and some new and different, to prepare and enjoy delicious food at home. Our recipes are easy to follow and we’re confident that you’ll be happy and impressed with your results; many include notes on ingredients and technique to assist in their preparation. Stay connected and join our email list to be advised of new recipes. We do not share nor sell your data with anyone. Please see our privacy page for more information.

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Lenten Recipes

For those of us who are of the Catholic faith, Lent has arrived. A time for reflection and dietary restrictions, our Lenten recipes offer meal options for observant Catholics and others seeking delicious dishes to prepare and share.

Warm, hearty and wonderful…

Days are getting longer but temperatures are still cold and the weather inclement. It’s time for comfort food! Our cooking adventure has moved inside, filling your home with mouth-watering aromas and delicious meals. Check out our stews, chilis, curries, and gumbos recipes and make something warm, hearty and wonderful as the cold days continue.

Braised Lamb and Cardoon

Braised Lamb and Cardoon is a tasty stew which bring two distinct ingredients together. Cardoon, also known as Cardoni, is related to the artichoke and has a similar taste but with more nut-like overtones; it resembles oversize celery with small thorns lining the edges of the ribs. While not well known outside of Italy, cardoon…
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Italian Sausage Curry

Italian Sausage Curry has an irreverent vibe to it. While using Italian sausage in an Indian curry might seem unusual, it yields wonderful results. Savory and not-too-spicy, Italian Sausage Curry is delicious as is, over rice or with naan on the side. Take your dinner international with either Sicilian Orange Salad or Greek Cucumber Tomato…
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Hoppin’ John

Hoppin' John, the dish with the curious name. Black-eyed peas are a staple of Southern cooking in the United States, featured on every table, rich and poor, city and country. Black-eyed peas are the base ingredient of this dish. Hoppin’ John is traditionally served over steamed white rice on New Year’s Day accompanied by sautéed…
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Grilled Meats Creole Gumbo

Grilled Meats Creole Gumbo is a West Coast take on a Louisiana classic. Made with a roux, flavorful and hearty Grilled Meats Creole Gumbo incorporates the “Holy Trinity” ingredients of Louisiana’s Creole and Cajun cuisines, along with okra, the all-important seasonings, crab meat and shrimp. When making the roux, especially if you've never made one…
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Cooking should be inspired and bring you joy. Culinary inspiration can spring from many sources. Childhood memories of family get-togethers and at-home meals, lovingly prepared. Travel, a particular favorite of mine, to places some familiar, some foreign and exotic. Meals taken at great restaurants, neighborhood joints, stand-up only kiosks, boardwalk stands, drive-ins, and falling-down fishing shacks on beaches. Holiday gatherings, small and large, with family, friends and strangers too. We will share what inspires us and hope it will inspire you too. Now it’s time to cook and eat at home!

So, let’s start with a few questions for you. Are you already a home chef of modest ability who wants to expand and refresh their repertoire of recipes and kitchen techniques? Are you a cooking novice for whom the kitchen represents uncharted territory, a terra incognita of untold dangers and as-yet imagined delights? Are you a confident master of the kitchen who is looking for fresh ideas? Are you perhaps a bit of all three? You are in the right place! Now it’s time to cook and eat at home!