For years I didn’t like the turkey served come Thanksgiving time. I found it to be dry and tasteless. Blech! Then I discovered brining and our Thanksgiving turkey has never been the same. Asking around here are some tips I received from others for making a more tastier bird for Thanksgiving Dinner.

When it comes to keeping your kitchen clean and organized don’t neglect to spend some time taking care of your spices.  Spices add that special touch to a dish. They help to distinguish one cuisine from another. So make sure your parsley doesn’t taste like garlic and other mishaps.

Thanksgiving is over and now you have a ton of leftovers. Either you cooked the turkey or whoever did sent you home with a fridge full.You may have leftover stuffing and potatoes. Even cranberry sauce and gravy.

Since I rarely use the entire bunch of celery available for purchase in the grocery store I often blanch and then freeze the celery for later use in soups and stews. I don’t like to see that large bunch go bad in the vegetable crisper so freezing it makes perfect sense.

Tips for making chicken stock and a basic recipe.

Great ideas and recipes for using that healthy ground turkey.

Great meals you can create in no time, using one meatloaf recipe.

How to speed up certain tasks in the kitchen using the blender.

Tips for the perfect pot roast.

Here are some healthy breakfast recipe ideas the whole family will enjoy.

Using a sourdough starter is another way to make a risen bread loaf without yeast. It just takes a little bit longer. It requires leaving your choice of a flour mixture out in your kitchen to capture yeast spores in the air. It takes a couple of days to ferment and get going but once you've had fresh sourdough bread you usually want more.

For a lot of cooks, there are times when we don?t have the appropriate ingredients in the pantry to make our desired recipe. If you find yourself in this situation, don?t despair, you probably have a suitable substitution on hand, saving the cook a trip to the grocery store. Here are a few.