Recipes tagged with: holiday

Beautiful flavors that are enhanced by outdoor cooking.  Serve this as an appetizer over a baguette or top grilled steak or chicken with this mixture

Brining a Turkey is a great way to impart flavor and keep the turkey moist when smoked or cooked on a grill.  Remember to brine the turkey several days in advance.  The best way to do this is to place the turkey and the brine in a food safe trash bag and keep your turkey in a cooler with ice.

BRUSCHETTA - quick and tasty Italian appetizer.  Easy to make for a potluck.

Easy and fun - once you get the basic recipe down you can experiment with other flavors.  This will become a campsite staple.

Fast, easy and healthy.  Great as an appetizer or on top of a salad.

Festive enough for special occasions - simple enough for everyday.

Fun for the 4th of July but great any time.  Super easy, using bottled dressing and pre-packaged slaw.  You can make it all from scratch - but why?  When this is so good and soooo easy.

Hot, wholesome, and delicious. This is perfect for Thanksgiving or a winter supper

I love sangria and this one is especially unusual.  Try different fruit combinations or mixing white wine with a sweeter white zinfandel.  This is a definite make in advance recipe.  You need time for the syrup to chill before blending with the wine.  I make mins a day in advance and let the flavors marry.

Indulge in this heavenly fudge - once you have the basic recipe down you can add endless variations by adding other flavors, nuts and fruit.

Light and refreshing summer entree.

Many of us look forward to having pumpkin pie once a year on Thanksgiving. However, you can enjoy pumpkin pie throughout the fall season, since pumpkins are in such ready supply. If you want a lighter desert, but still want all of the flavor of your traditional pumpkin pie, try making this simple pumpkin custard instead.

Simply perfect.  Buy the freshest crab you can then simply serve them chilled with clarified butter, crab crackers, bibs and lots of paper towels. 

The Gin and Tonic is one of the most simple and most refreshing cocktails for a warm evening.