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Fresh pasta is easy to make from scratch with just a few basic ingredients. Feed your craving for comfort foods by making homemade pasta from scratch with this simple recipe and tutorial.

How to Make Fresh Pasta from Scratch

This recipe for salmon pie is a seaside version of the classic French-Canadian meat pie. It is often served right along with meat pie on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.

French-Canadian Salmon Pie

This grilled garlic scapes recipe adds a layer of sweet smoky char to the mild garlicky flavor, and then enhances it further with a simple dusting of sea salt and freshly ground pepper.

Grilled Garlic Scapes

A slight twist from your regular pesto, this recipe combines garlic scapes with lemon balm for an early garden fresh variation. Spoon this garlic scape lemon balm pesto on pasta, seafood, and even sandwiches.

Garlic Scape Lemon Balm Pesto

You can't go wrong with chili. Since the chili simmers in the slow cooker all day, it is perfect for a weeknight meal.

Easy Slow Cooker Chili

Is your garden overflowing with zucchini? Learn the many ways you can preserve zucchini so you can enjoy the abundant harvest during the winter months

3 Easy Ways to Preserve Zucchini

Skip the store bought bottles and shake up your own homemade Italian salad dressing using fresh ingredients. This Italian salad dressing tastes great on leafy salad, adds a zesty zing to pasta salad, and is a delicious marinade for grilled meats.

Mason Jar Italian Salad Dressing Recipe

Chicken stock is a great pantry staple to have on hand for making soups, gravies, stews, and stir-fry. Here are three methods for making great homemade chicken stock, including stovetop, slow cooker, and Instant Pot pressure cooker.

How to Make Chicken Stock from Scratch

These Cocktail Meatballs with Cherry Barbecue Sauce are slightly sweet with a little bit of smoky heat kick you will love. An easy appetizer that is perfect for parties, game day, and potluck meals.

Cocktail Meatballs with Cherry BBQ Sauce

This Italian Salsa Cruda is a great way to enjoy ripe summer tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, and fresh Italian herbs. It is perfect for bruschetta, tossed with pasta, or spooned over grilled meat or fish.

Italian Salsa Cruda

These sweet and tangy cucumber bread and butter pickles are perfect for burgers, sandwiches, or snacked right out of the jar.

Granny’s Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe

This smoky, rich flavored cherry barbecue sauce can be slathered on virtually any type of meat, including chicken, pork, and beef.

Cherry Barbecue Sauce Recipe

These mini slider buns make fantastic appetizer sandwiches, such as mini burgers, pulled pork sandwiches, and even breakfast sandwiches. See how to bake your own slider buns from scratch.

Homemade Mini Slider Buns

This simple roasted salsa verde recipe is easy to make. Roasting the vegetables adds a delicious smoky flavor and mellows the acidity of the tomatillos. Enjoy this tomatillo salsa with your favorite Mexican dishes.

Roasted Salsa Verde

Canning roasted tomatillo salsa is a great way to preserve the abundance of tomatillos that the garden produces. Jars of tomatillo salsa verde come in handy for all your favorite Mexican dishes.

Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde for Canning

This is a super easy crockpot white bean chicken chili recipe that is filled with flavor. In this recipe, chicken is seasoned with Mexican spices, combined with white beans, onions, garlic, green chilies, and slow cooked all day. The flavors mingle into a delicious mild chili.

Crockpot White Bean Chicken Chili

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

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