One of our favorite kitchen gadgets is the Instant Pot. This is basically a pressure cooker on steroids. It can make all kinds of one pot meals. This is our Instant Pot guide with our Top 10 Instant Pot Tips. The Instant Pot has a lot of buttons and can seem overwhelming. It can function…
The Instant Pot is a great tool for quickly cooking dried beans and making soup at the last minute. This is our Instant Pot Italian White Bean Soup recipe. This is an Instant Pot Italian Bean Soup that features sausage and kale. This is a low-cost nutritional soup that provides a full meal. Even with…
The coleslaw served with North Carolina BBQ often uses a tangy vinegar base instead of mayo. This is our recipe for North Carolina vinegar coleslaw. It goes perfect with North Carolina style pulled pork. Instead of mayo this North Carolina vinegar coleslaw uses a tangy vinegar sauce. This is traditionally served along with pulled pork…
We love North Carolina style pulled pork. This is a tangy version of BBQ that features a spicy vinegar sauce. Traditionally this is cooked for hours on a smoker. However, visiting friends in North Carolina we found a way to do this in the oven. We took is a step further and created this version…
A blender is a kitchen necessity. However, we have had a hard time finding a blender that can handle our needs. This is until we got our Nutri Ninja. We were skeptical at first, but this blender has been put into daily use. This is our Nutri Ninja Review. There are actually quite a few…
When we make mashed potatoes we almost always have leftovers. One of our favorite uses for leftover mashed potatoes is in a casserole. A classic casserole is shepherd’s pie, or in our version cottage pie. This is our cottage pie recipe. Go To Recipe There is often confusion about the difference between cottage pie and…
A potato masher is a tool that I took for granted for years. About 10 years ago we lost our trusty potato masher and went on a long search for a replacement. We bought many potato mashers until we settled on what we believe to be the best potato masher on the market. Our long…
Mashed potatoes are an essential side dish for many meals. Mashed potatoes seem easy to make. However, there is big difference between ordinary mashed potatoes and great mashed potatoes. This is our Ultimate Mashed Potatoes Recipe. We use Russet potatoes for mashed potatoes and that seems to be a common consensus. We try and…
Many times when cooking we slice garlic by hand. However, it is always convenient to be able to quickly press garlic, especially in large quantities. Unfortunately, we have been dissatisfied with many garlic presses we have used. So this article is an overview of the best garlic press we have found. We also have listed…
We are an active cooking family and a food processor is an essential tool. Unfortunately we have had mixed results with food processors over the years. That is until we found our current 12-cup Cuisinart food processor. This is our Cuisinart Food Processor review. UPDATE DECEMBER 2020: After being dropped several times we had to…