Category Archives: How To

Behind the Scenes at a Taste of Home Cooking School

  Recently, I was lucky enough to be invited to help behind the scenes at a Taste of Home Cooking School.  I have done this once before, and it was incredible!  Five women and Guy Klingzing, Taste of Home's Culinary Chef met at the convention center at 8 AM the day of the show. [caption id="attachment_10199" align="aligncenter" width="300"]Behind the curtains! Behind the curtains![/caption] We spent a short period of
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How does your club stack up?

We may have jumped the gun with a picnic but after this winter my husband and I were very happy to trek to the park and enjoy some of the very mild weather that mother nature blessed up with. So that we don't get into a rut and because it is just the two of us we try to change up our meal time routes with a change of location or typical food that we may have. Sometimes we stop
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Know Your Ingredients – Buttermilk

Growing up my Grandmother used to make the most delicious cookies. They were always in a container in the freezer, so whenever we were there we knew exactly where they were and that they would be soft and tasty. As I grew up I knew that there was something special about the cookies but not until I was older that I understood the role of one key ingredient. And that ingredient is 'buttermilk'. In early days, buttermilk was the liquid that
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