Recipes and Cooking

APPETIZERS

• Shrimp rangoons: A conversation with a stranger at the store culminated in this delicious, easy-to-make holiday recipe for shrimp rangoons.

CAMPFIRES

• Dutch cooking: You don't have to eat junk food and smores just because you're in the great outdoors. Enjoy great recipes like shrimp jambalaya, real beef stew from scratch, chicken alfredo and piping hot cornbread, real corn included.

CANNING

• Outdoor grill isn't just for meat. Learn how to do your canning on your outdoor grill and save on your electric bill.
• Strawberries: If you hull them on the vine, you'll save lots of time in the kitchen. Learn this technique

CEREALS

• Granola: For a cereal with solid nutrition, make your own "gorilla-nola."

CONDIMENTS

• Salsa: Make delicious, homemade salsa on your outdoor grill.

DAIRY

• Eggs: Why some people plain just don't like them.

DESSERTS

• Cheesecake: Here's how to make a real, old-world, old-fashioned cheesecake. It's not too sweet!
• Christmas treats: Properly wrapped and frozen, sometimes you can enjoy delicious holiday treats months after the festivities are over.
• Paczkis: Forget those convenience store paczkis. Try these quick, real, homemade paczkis!
• Two-for-one pie: Finicky eater in your family? Bake two kinds of pie in a single tin.

DINING

• Sit-down meals: A week at Scout camp offers lessons on how to make time to feed your busy family a sit-down meal

DISHWARE

• Mixing bowl: What do you do when you accidentally shatter your wife's favorite ceramic mixing bowl? Fess up, of course!
• Pots and pans: Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you burn your nonstick pan. Here's how to easily clean it. The same method also works wonders on regular stainless steel pans.
• Tools in the kitchen: Use a miter saw to slice ham? A drill to put holes into baked potatoes? A paint shaker to mix chocolate milk? Only in a fantasy world. April Fool's!

GRADUATION

• Open house activities: Three elements are key to a successful graduation open house -- food, decorations and activities. Here are some great recipes and great ideas.
• Open house food: Food for the masses got you flustered? Here's how to shop the deals, calculate quantities and prepare a spread that will make you the envy of the graduates -- at a reasonable price!

GRILLING

• Outdoor grill isn't just for meat. Learn how to do your canning on your outdoor grill and save on your electric bill.
• Cleaning the grill: Don't throw that grimy grill away! Here's how to clean it from top to bottom!
• Grill won't light? One possible source of the problem could be the regulator, which controls the flow of gas from the LP tank to the burners.
• Salsa on the grill: Make delicious, homemade salsa on your outdoor grill.
• Shrimp tortellini: Make this delicious shrimp tortellini with grilled vegetables.
• Storing the grill: Should you store your grill for winter? Some use it year-round. But if you do store it, here's how to help keep it protected.
• Tenderloin dinner: Cook this complete, quality tenderloin meal -- including potatoes, corn on the cob (and toss in a salad) -- in under half an hour on your grill.

MAIN DISHES/MEATS

• Pork: Make this delicious stuffed pork loin with melba sauce. You don't have to be a great cook to do it!
• Turkey: Cook a whole turkey in as little as 2 1/2 hours! Try this recipe.