The spice rub would work whether you choose to bake, grill, or smoke your meat, let me show you how to make the best in 5 minutes The best pork rub recipe Are you wondering what to season pork with? This all-purpose pork rub is perfect with pork chops, pork steak, pork shoulder, tenderloin, pork roast, pork ribs, and more. Simply season your pork with this spice blend and cook as usual for amazing and delicious results....

My favorite kind is a potato and onion knish with a heavy seasoning of black pepper. They appear at luncheons, Friday night dinners, brunches, or on the go with a dollop of deli mustard. No matter the filling, knishes taste like comfort and remind me of sharing a meal with my grandparents. A Rich History Knishes have been quintessential New York street food for nearly 100 years, appearing on the menus of every Jewish deli and stacked high on street carts dotting the city....

It takes a lot for me to concede defeat and accept that I can’t do it all – run a business*, renovate a home, work on a cookbook and maintain my existing recipe posting schedule. Lockdown certainly didn’t help matters to increase my workload – though on a cheerier note, as of Monday of this week, the lockdown rules have been substantially relaxed here in Sydney. 🙌🏻 I found myself getting up earlier and earlier (currently 4....

A Dijon vinaigrette is tossed with the cut potatoes when they are still warm, to help the dressing get absorbed. Capers, shallots, garlic, and parsley are tossed in as well. The salad is best if allowed to sit for several hours, as is just as good two days out as one. So it’s perfect for a make ahead get together. The secret ingredient of the dressing is the anchovy paste....

It’s one of my favorite things to make. Even though it’s actually a seed, it behaves like a grain, and can easily take the place of rice in many recipes, including a classic pilaf. Like rice it’s gluten-free, but since it is actually a seed, it’s high protein. Perfect for those wanting to cut back a bit on carbs. This quinoa pilaf is prepared in much the same way as rice pilaf....

Here’s one idea: a light, but satisfying salad full of buttery green olives, nutty chickpeas, salty Parmesan cheese, and a sweet balsamic vinaigrette. All these flavors and textures balance the radicchio, making a colorful, elegant – and quick! – seasonal salad for your dinner table. Radicchio is a member of the chicory family along with endive, escarole, and puntarelle. It looks similar to a small head of purple cabbage and can range from fist-sized to soft-ball-sized....

So there’s this trend going around for cooking things in mason jars that I didn’t quite understand until now. I mean, why would you want to eat a fancy dessert out of a jar? Think of it this way, mason jars are like see-through ramekins with lids! So if you have a particularly pretty layered dessert, it will look even lovelier in a mason jar, and if you want to give it as a gift, it comes with a convenient lid for easy transporting....

Hands on Time: about 10 minutes Cook Time: 45 minutes Yield: Serves 4 to 6 Ingredients 3 medium-size beets, tops removed, peeled, and diced 1 lb. brussel sprouts, trimmed and halved 2 TB olive oil salt and pepper 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar 2 oz goat cheese, crumbled Instructions Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spread beets out in a single layer on one-half of a baking sheet. Drizzle with 1 TB olive oil and season with salt and pepper....

Here, I’ll walk you through selecting your stalk, prepping it for guests, and how to make three easy dips—spicy peanut sauce, Dijon aioli, and roasted red pepper feta—that can be whipped up while the Brussels are roasting. Why You Roast Brussels Sprouts on the Stalk The better question is, why shouldn’t you? For starters, they’ll stay fresh for longer, so you can purchase them further in advance. Treat the stalk like cut flowers: trim off the end and put it in water or wrap it with damp paper towels, then store in a cool place....

This easy side dish is ready in about 30 minutes and you’ll only need five simple ingredients to make it. I love carrots. 🥕 I enjoy them in their raw state, dipped in a homemade ranch dip or in a tasty Greek yogurt dip. But I especially enjoy them cooked. Cooking takes away their crunch but enhances their delicate sweetness. These roasted carrots are especially good. The combination of the natural sweetness of the carrots and the deep flavor of the olive oil is wonderful....

It’s a double-duty red bell pepper dip with both roasted and fresh bell peppers, mayonnaise, balsamic vinegar, and a little garlic. Plenty of zing, and so bright and festive! This dip was the hit of our neighborhood holiday party last week. It’s perfect with crudités (veggie on veggie) or with breadsticks or chips. Keeps for days. Serve with strips of fresh jicama, celery, and carrots, or with bread sticks or tortilla chips....

How Turn Leftover Salmon and Rice Into a Meal If you also happen to have some leftover cooked salmon (I know, it’s a stretch, but you might, right?) This salmon fried rice is one of the best possible things you could make with it. We grilled up some fresh salmon the other day and had just enough leftover to toss into this fried rice dish. With the egg, peas, onions, ginger, garlic, and bell pepper, it’s a meal in and of itself!...

This recipe is so easy, it’s surprising how good it is! Use Jarred or Homemade Salsa Verde If it’s not the season for fresh tomatillos to make the salsa verde from scratch, it is easily available jarred (look for it in the salsa section, or Mexican food section, of your grocery store). Thankfully with our ginormous tomatillo harvest this summer, we have plenty home canned in the pantry. Many thanks to my dear friend Bruce, who came up with this recipe and urged me to give it a try....

I think I’ve finally figured out that bite-sized treats aren’t better for you than humongous treats. If there’s a plateful of bite-size treats, I’ll eat them all - totally beating the king-size-snickers- calorie-count that I was trying to avoid. I have no self control. So rather than talking about how making mini-desserts are better for the waistline, I’m gonna come right out and tell you that you’ll probably eat seven or eight of these in a row, have a sugar rush, followed by an energy slump - where you’ll feel guilty that you ate so many - then you’ll vow not to be so greedy in future (and you may need to undo your top button)....

And it’s time to choose the next FREE eCookbook!!! Sausage Pasta It’s the last Monday of August which means another Monday Meatball Mania* here! I hadn’t planned for this Sausage Pasta to be my meatball recipe for this month….but when I noticed that chopped up sausages end up looking just like mini meatballs, I couldn’t resist. 😉 I mean, what a way to make “meatballs”, right? Just chop up sausages!...

Ham Options: Not all ham is created equal, especially for this recipe. You want to opt for the butt or shank portions, bone-in and unsliced. Be aware that this recipe will not work with a spiral-sliced ham! Sliced varieties won’t shred as nicely. If you do use a shank, make sure to trim off any of the hard skin. We have used boneless varieties when in a crunch, and it also works!...

The homemade sauce used to stir fry the veggies and shrimps is about to be your go-to sauce for all stir-fries, it is delicious and the umami flavour is spot on. I love to serve this stir fry with freshly boiled basmati rice, coconut rice or noodles. Shrimp stir fry recipe Who doesn’t like a good stir fry especially on a busy weeknight when you just want something quick and easy but delicious....

I’m starting with breakfast because I absolutely love using my slow cooker for breakfast. One of the few ways I can convince my family to give up their cold cereal is to provide a hot and tasty breakfast for them that requires little to no work on their part. Since I am most definitely not a morning person the slow cooker saves the day. It’s also the first of September so why not make it a fall recipe!...

Stella and I have been friends for years, but I had to be honest with her. “How come your snickerdoodle recipe uses baking powder? For me, classic snickerdoodles have baking soda and cream of tartar!” Get the book! BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts by Stella Parks Stella actually had a great answer for this, and she even addresses it in the book: The original recipe for snickerdoodles was distributed through various baking powder companies, including a national advertising campaign for Cleveland Baking Powder Company....

Am I too late to be sharing summer cocktails? It’s not even mid August, and I’ve started to see people getting ready for Autumn! Noooo! I’ve not even got a tan yet! Not that I ever actually tan. I just tend to turn from blue-tinged whiteness to slightly pink, and then back to white again. I saw some spiced winter berry cordial in a gorgeous farm shop in Wilmslow on Saturday....