Food Bites & Articles
Perk Up Dinnertime with Coffee-Infused Desserts
On a chilly fall morning it's often the promise of a steamy cup of coffee alone that can pry me from under the warm covers. There's just something so fulfilling about the ritual - and the dark, rich flavor -...
Back to Baking: Hot Meal Ideas for Cool Weather
Dear oven, how I've missed you! All summer we've been apart. I've been keeping things cool by tossing salads, grilling out and loading up the slow cooker, but you've never been far from my thoughts. There's really no substitute for...
How Do We Love Pork? Let Us Count the Ways…
"I've got my menu planned for the next two weeks," smiles home cook Nikki Smith, "PORK on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! Boy that was easy." Nikki is one of the thousands of devoted pork lovers who...
Falling for Satisfying Soups
There are so many reasons to love this time of year: cooler temperatures, chunky sweaters and trees ablaze in color. Perhaps most thrilling of all - at least to us comfort foodies - is the arrival of soup season!And if...
Rise and Shine With Blue Ribbon Breakfast Recipes
Good morning, Just A Pinch-ers! Today is going to be great day. How do I know? Because a good breakfast leads to good times... and to cheery outlooks all around.Starting the day off right is as easy as pie. Well,...
Strawberries, Brown Sugar Create Winning Dessert Combination
So much of what I love cooking today can be tied right back those early days spent in my mom's kitchen. She passed on to me her deep love for home cooking and an unfailing desire to make the world...
Small Food, Big Flavor… Decadent Desserts Without All the Guilt!
Cupcakes are all the rage these days, but they surely aren't the only mini eats making waves. We have flipped for some truly sweet small bites lately, and the possibilities are only as limited as your imagination!Linda Dalton of Stoughton,...
For the Love of Tomatoes: Creative, Garden-Fresh Recipes
You know how you sometimes hear folks say you can never have too much of a good thing? Well, my bet is they're talking about tomatoes! No matter how many plants we have each year, the Kitchen Crew and I...
Homemade Jams & Jellies Preserve Flavors of the Season
Who's ready to jam? Because we're on a canning roll and want you to help us celebrate the flavorful jams and jellies of summer! "I gathered some blackberries from my property , in the hopes of making some jam... but...
Heirloom Contest Winner Inspires Recipes, Friendships At Blue Ribbon Showcase Event
The family table is bigger than even we could have imagined! That's what we learned from the amazing group of home cooks that recently gathered together in Franklin, TN to honor Heirloom Recipe Contest winner Jamie Burris at the Just...
Easy, Delicious Weeknight Chicken Dinners
I have a confession: I love chicken! Cooking with it, eating it, and coming up with creative recipes for it are all a joy for us in the Test Kitchen. Not only is it fairly inexpensive, but the meat is...
Going Bananas for Sweet Dessert Treats
An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but bananas were always what kept us kids coming back for more! Mom would buy them by the bunches to keep us in the yellow. In fact, I never saw a...
Test Kitchen: Study Shows Chocolate Cake Spreads Smiles
I scream, you scream, we all scream for... CHOCOLATE! Every day keeps getting sweeter around here in the Test Kitchen as we taste and sample our way through the yummy chocolate confections you're serving up! A little heat from the...
Avocados: An Unlikely Love Affair
There was a time when my husband loved to share guacamole with me... because he would get to eat it all! I was a non-believer, an avid avocado avoider. I took my tortilla chips straight, with just a hint of...
Fresh New Ways to Enjoy Summer Herbs
If you're anything like us gals here in the Just A Pinch Test Kitchen, you've got oodles of fresh herbs springing up in the garden. Every year we plant 'em, maniacally anticipating all that herbaceous goodness. Fresh dill to bathe...
Creative Grill Recipes Star At Season’s Best Cookouts
"What's a grill to do? So many sausages, so little time!" If we've said it once we've said it a million times. We wake up plotting menus and in the afternoons you can find us rushing outside to stoke up...
Ice Cream Churns Sweet Summer Memories
From hand-cranked ice cream in the back yard to hot fudge sundaes at the drive-in, it's hard to imagine a food memory that says 'summer' more than ice cream. Growing up it was the queen of all treats to get...
Garden Fresh Veggie Recipes Keep You Picking and Grinning
Fresh is best... and what's fresher than straight-from-the-garden veggies?! The gals and I are slowly beginning to see signs of the big garden payoff - that moment when our beloved plants begin to yield more fresh veggies than we know...
Celebrating Dad with Ultimate Meat and Potatoes Feast
Fathers, we salute you! It's that time of year again, time to take a moment and let dad know that you appreciate all he does. And as I figure it, what better way to do dad a solid than by...
Home Cook Jamie Burris Wins Big with Rich Family History, Decadent Recipe
"Growing up we called it 'Kugela', but it's actually pronounced 'coo-GHEL-iss.' It's a classic Lithuanian dish!"Jamie Burris was beyond shocked to learn that her family's beloved potato recipe had won top honors in the !"My grandfather knew the recipe from...