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Home Cooked Recipes

Whether you are searching for fast and easy weeknight meals, impressive appetizers, or delightful desserts, our recipes will satisfy your culinary cravings. We offer simple recipes to bring out the natural flavor of the harvest bounty, comforting dishes made with wholesome ingredients, traditional family recipes, and guidance for replacing processed foods in your kitchen.

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Dried beans do take time to soak and cook. But you can prepare them ahead of time in large batches and store them in the freezer. Visit for tips on cooking dried beans on the stove, in a crockpot, and using an electric pressure cooker.

3 Ways to Cook Dried Beans from Scratch

This tomato salsa recipe adds delicious depth of flavor from grilling the vegetables. The flavors transform to a delightful blend of sweet, smoky char, with a spicy kick that makes you crave for more.

Grilled Tomato Salsa Recipe

This chicken paillard dish is quick and easy to prepare at home. Thinly pounded, seasoned, and browned chicken cutlets smothered in a mushroom marinara sauce.

Chicken Paillard with Mushroom Marinara Sauce

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How to Make Homemade Garlic Powder

This garlic rosemary bread recipe has a whole head of roasted garlic baked into the dough. Oven roasting mellows the flavor of garlic and the soft, roasted cloves vanish into the bread dough giving you a mild garlic flavor with each and every bite.

Roasted Garlic Rosemary Bread

This simple recipe for white bean dip is filled with flavor. Begin with Cannellini beans, add roasted garlic, rosemary, olive oil, and brighten with lemon juice and zest. Puree to a smooth and creamy texture that pairs well with crackers and veggies.

Roasted Garlic White Bean Dip

Roasting turns the sharp garlic flavor into one that is milder and sweeter. Roasted garlic is delicious spread on homemade bread, and it adds a flavorful depth to dips, soups, stews, and salad dressing.

How to Roast Garlic

Zest citrus fruit to take full advantage of extra concentrated citrus flavor to boost your recipes. Freeze it and you'll always have zest on hand.

How to Zest Citrus Fruit

Homemade bread crumbs are easy to make and a great way to use up leftover bread. Dried bread crumbs add crunch as a topping for casseroles, help bind ingredients for meatballs, and are an essential breading for extra crispy chicken fingers.

How to Make Your Own Dried Bread Crumbs

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Roasted Red Jalapeño Hot Sauce Recipe

This summer tomato sauce recipe combines vine-ripened tomatoes with onions, garlic and fresh Italian herbs. It is a classic marinara sauce that comes together in about an hour.

Fresh Summer Tomato Sauce

Transform leftovers into a tasty pork fried rice. Combine pork, rice, and veggies with a ginger garlic sauce for a dish that will satisfy your craving for takeout.

Ginger Garlic Pork Fried Rice Recipe

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