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Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Recipe of the Week Nana V’s holiday corn bread Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 8 oz. (raw weight) good quality smoked bacon 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese 2...

Fried Foods

By Richard Blunt Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Over the past 30 years I've devoted many hours to researching, developing, and testing recipes that provide my family and me with healthy and good tasting meals. My...

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole...

By Richard Blunt Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Whenever you discuss peppery issues like religion or politics your emotions and blood pressure are at risk of running high. This is because the conversation is likely doomed...

Basic brown stock

Recipe of the Week Basic brown stock Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 5 lbs. raw beef bones (it helps if some of them are meaty) 5 qts. cold...

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

By Richard Blunt Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 One of my earliest and fondest childhood memories is of my mother and me walking nearly a mile down the road from our house, in the rain, to...

French Onion Soup

Recipe of the Week French Onion Soup& Julia Child's Beef Stock Courtesy of Richard Blunt Thirty-some years ago the publisher, Dave Duffy, the food editor, Richard Blunt, and I all lived in or near Boston. Butch, that’s Richard Blunt,...

Basic biscotti cookie

Recipe of the Week Basic biscotti cookie Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients for egg wash: 1 egg 2 Tbsp. milk Ingredients for cookies: 1/4 cup unsalted butter 1/2 cup sugar-divided 1 tsp....

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

By Richard Blunt Issue #56 • March/April, 1999 My mother loved chocolate. She knew and understood it just as a wine master knows and understands wine. When she made some of her old world style bittersweet...

Apple barbeque sauce

Recipe of the Week Apple barbeque sauce Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 6 Tbsp. vegetable oil 2 cups onions, chopped fine 1 cup celery, chopped fine 3 Tbsp. fresh ginger,...

Pickled chili peppers

Recipe of the Week Pickled chili peppers Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients Brine: 2 lbs. (1 gallon) fresh, ripe, chili peppers 1 gallon water 2 cups of sea or...

Masala jheenga

Recipe of the Week Masala jheenga Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 1-1/2 tsp. white poppy seeds 2 lbs. medium-sized raw shrimp (about 30-35 shrimp per lb.) 1/2...

Spider rice casserole

Recipe of the Week Spider rice casserole Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Special Equipment: 1 5-qt. or larger cast iron Dutch oven Ingredients 6 skinless chicken thighs 1/2 tsp....

Beans for Sarah

Recipe of the Week Beans for Sarah Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 1 1/4 cups dried pinto beans water to soak beans 3 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 12 oz....

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

By Richard Blunt Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 The southern region of the United States is almost as big as Western Europe, and despite the stereotype that non-Southerners havethat there is only one Southwhen someone says,...

The healthy kitchen — Good spoons, knives, and food

By Richard Blunt Issue #102 • November/December, 2006 Despite being omnivores endowed with the ability to eat nearly everything, we humans are very selective about what we consider acceptable food. A close look at the culinary...

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

Recipe of the Week Old-fashioned meat pie casserole Courtesy of Richard Blunt You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here Ingredients 1 4-5 lb. roasting chicken or stewing hen 2 cups low fat, low salt canned chicken...