Recipes

It's a healthy alternative to deep frying potatoes.  Oven fries from Taste of Home!  They are more heart healthy because they're baked.  Plus, you can spice them up any way you wish.  Sea salt, garlic powder, chili powder or you can do what we do in our family.  We use flavored popcorn salt!  Who wouldn't want a side of ranch flavored oven fries with that juicy turkey burger!

Our 5 year old loves Cheesy Hamburger Helper Macaroni.  So much, that after last time I made it, we didn't have enough for 2 adults and 1 child.  Last night I made it again because I needed to cook something fast and easy while the baby slept.   So I reached for a box of Hamburger Helper....  But I only had one box!  What to do?

Kids always want to help, especially in the kitchen.  Use their enthusiasm to help you with breakfast and you get the morning off!  Taste of Home has an easy, fun to make recipe for you to try, it's called Toad in a Hole.  Enjoy!

Even if you didn't verbalize "getting healthy and exercising more" in 2014 as a New Year's resolution, I'll just bet it's in the back of your mind.  My resolution this year was "to take the time".  Stop procrastinating and take the time to do the things I need and want to get done.  Ken, my co-host asked what "things"?  IT could be anything!  From including more time

My mom for the last few years has been making home made pickles.   They are so good that it just isn't the same when we go buy store bought pickles.   It's all about the brine, and this brine is perfect for making pickles.   I also made some pickled eggs with it and they were delicious!

Temps in the single digits and more snow on the way!  Use it to your advantage!  This would be a great weekend to make Taste of Home's Slow Cooker Caramel Apple Cider.  What could be easier?  Throw it in the crock pot, the house smells awesome and when you come in from the cold you'll have something to warm your insides :)

My daughter's birthday dinner was at grandma's house last night.  Corned venison was on the menu.  I didn't try it then, but took a baggie of it to work this morning so Ken could try it.  He MADE me try it too and ya know what???  It wasn't that bad, tasted JUST like corned beef.  With MN and WI deer hunting seasons over, I thought I'd look for other possible venison recipes that I think would hav

I have always resorted to an "egg bake" when I have overnight guests.  It's something I can whip up the night before and throw in the oven the next morning.  But, this recipe from Taste of Home is too unique and sounds too yummy to pass up this year.  It's a five-star recipe that got rave reviews.  I'll be a one-upper on myself this year!  If you have holiday guests spending the night WO

The tradition in my family has always been to roast our Thanksgiving turkey, then again, turkey deep fryers weren't around yet (insert "older than dirt joke" here).  I have traditionally stuck with that form of cooking a Thanksgiving turkey, but after tasting Ken's deep fried turkey and hearing so many more people choosing that mode of preparing their turkey, I'm beginning to change my m

I have a spring form pan and have only made cheesecake in it.  Thanks to Taste of Home, I have another reason to dig the spring form pan out from the back of the cupboard.  I've never tried making a torte before but it looks fantastic and I'm excited to serve it on Thanksgiving as an alternative dessert to my homemade pumpkin pie.

I usually buy my pies for Thanksgiving.  Recently, I found this Signature Pumpkin Pie recipe in a grocery store inspired mini cookbook that looked fairly easy (that's how I gauge whether I'm going to attempt to make something or not) and thought I'd try it BEFORE the holiday to make sure it has the deliciousness stamp of approval.  I couldn't believe what my daughter said about it!

The Northland is expecting a rain/snow mix.  To the South in Minneapolis, 4-6 inches of snow.  You didn't have time to dig the crock pot out from behind the bread maker on those make-shift shelves in the dark room of your basement, but you want to serve something warm and tasty for dinner.  Here's the answer, Taste of Home's Roasted Pepper Potato Soup.