Kitchen Basics
Kitchen Basics: Homemade Creole Seasoning
You may have noticed that I make a lot of homemade seasoning blends. I started doing that because I was almost appalled at the cost of those readymade ones at the grocery. Now, I prefer them because I can control what goes into them, eliminating...
Kitchen Basics: Homemade Gingerbread Spice Mix
You've probably already made your gingerbread houses and gingerbread men, but put this recipe for Homemade Gingerbread Spice Mix in your files for next year. It is such a nice addition to your spice cabinet and really does add an extra punch to...
Kitchen Basics: Homemade Poultry Seasoning
You already know I'm big on making your own spice blends, right? I hope you've followed through with making your own apple pie and pumpkin spice seasonings by now. If you have, you don't need any more convincing that this is absolutely the way...
Kitchen Basics: Homemade Moroccan Spice Blend
Moroccan Spice Bland or Ras el Hanout is not a spicy hot blend, but it gives pungent, warm flavor from the coriander, allspice and cayenne. The cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg add sweet accents as well. It is useful as a rub, in marinades and...
Preserving Autumn: Persimmon Jam
Persimmons are ripening fast and furiously around here. The thing with persimmons is once they are ripe, they fall and if you don't get them quickly, they're mush. You've really got to like dealing with that mushiness tendency if you want the...
Kitchen Basics: Pumpkin Pie Spice
It's so easy to make your own pumpkin pie spice, y'all. Once you do it, you'll wonder why you ever paid over $4 a bottle (a tiny one at that) for the stuff! I mean, common sense does get ahold of me occasionally. Pumpkin pie spice and apple pie...
Kitchen Basics: Homemade Apple Pie Spice Mix
So I'm working on my October 10 THV11 segment (Skipped September. It's a long story.) which is going to feature apples since it's apple season in Arkansas. I know everyone is on the pumpkin and pumpkin spice kick right now which I certainly will...
Preserving Summer: Slow Cooker Tomato Sauce
One of the things I look forward to the most in summer is the first bite of a homegrown, Cherokee Purple tomato. And if it just happens to be on a BLT with Petit Jean Meats Hickory Smoked Bacon, it's even better. Absolutely nothing beats...
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