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Here’s a unique chefs trick for perfectly cooking prime rib. This simple method takes the guesswork out of cooking that all-important holiday dish we love to eat but are sometimes worried about cooking! This is a simple two-step heating process that will take the cringe out of that first slice and allow you to focus on creating a delightful sauce to accompany your perfectly-cooked prime rib.

Nothing is more comforting, more home style, than a simple roast chicken dinner. Especially when the vegetables are cooked and seasoned at the same time and there’s only one pot to clean!

I love how my local grocery has chickens spinning and roasting, ready to take home and serve up. But don’t stop there. You can stretch a rotisserie chicken into a hearty pot full of delicious soup for a crowd!

What ingredient gets my heart pounding every time I haul it out, makes everything else taste amazing and is so popular entire websites are devoted to it? Bacon! Here are my three favorite ways to show it off.

A recipe is merely words on paper; a guideline, a starting point from which to improvise. It cannot pretend to replace the practiced hand and telling glance of a watchful cook. For that reason feel free to stir your own ideas into this dish. When you cook it once, it becomes yours, so personalize it a bit. Add more of an ingredient you like or less of something you don’t like. Try substituting one ingredient for another. Remember words have no flavour, you have to add your own!

There are few things more comforting in the kitchen than an old-school batch of mac n’ cheese. Ooey gooey goodness. Perfection—almost—I mean have you ever added bacon to your mac n’ cheese?

If your house is anything like mine, they’ve already smelled the bacon and are lined up, waiting to share!

Pasta with a simple tomato sauce is one of the all time great flavor combos, but there’s more than one way to make a tomato sauce. Here’s a quick way to toss a few flavors together, let the oven do the work and wind up with pasta that tastes like pizza!

Sometimes the best thing you can do in a kitchen is get out and go for the grill. Here’s how to create a simple bed of grilled goodness to anchor a warm salad. All with an easy twist to create a double duty marinade/dressing and jazz it all up.

I love salmon. I love its flavor, I love how healthy it is, and I love how easy it is to cook. I especially love it grilled, then tossed into a simple salad. And since the grill is already on, why not grill the whole salad?

Around here chowder is about as common as ants at a picnic. We don’t waste a whole lot of time worrying whether it’s authentic or not either. Better to focus on flavor, which might just lead you to an uncommonly good chowder!

Pork Chops are an easy way to get dinner on the table in a hurry and an easy way to show off your saucier skills. The secret? A two step pan roast and an even easier pan sauce!

For most of us, cooking a turkey is a once a year event and can be a bit intimidating. But let’s face it; it’s just a big chicken. So let’s make it easy, get it in the oven fast and have some fun with the gravy!