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Stocking up on in-season produce is only smart if you don't let it go to waste. To avoid spoiled food in your kitchen, here are 21 fun ways to use overripe fruit.

Grilling has 2 seasons:summer and football. Now is the time of year where backyard grillers become parking lot chefs at tailgate parties coast to coast. Before you buy a grill for this tailgate season, here are some things to consider...

Want to be the grill master at home? Here are some of the best tips for getting the most from your grilling experience. Lots of little-known secrets from the pros!

The $2-$3 you pay for a bag of processed hash brown potatoes can be replaced with this more satisfying, better tasting, homemade potato dish. It only costs pennies to make -- especially when you buy your potatoes in bulk 20-lb bags! Here's how we make our own breakfast potatoes from scratch.

Should you use a pressure cooker? Or should you use a crock pot? A crockpot is also known as a slow cooker. The pressure cooker claims speed similar to a high power microwave, the crockpot insists low and slow but ready by supper time is the better way.

I'm so glad I found this amazing step-by-step guide to bread making on Epicurious! You CANNOT make bread wrong when you follow these thorough instructions

Here are the top 10 food websites people are searching to find something to put on the table.

I personally love my crockpot and use it at least 2 or 3 times per week. As a freelance writer who works from home, using my crockpot makes it possible for me to be able to stay at home and eat healthy, rather than eat all those convenience foods which aren't so good for you. Here are the best reasons for using a crockpot over other methods of cooking, or eating out...

The best part: everything from meats and vegetables to desserts can be made in a pressure cooker. In the end, your food is cooked in one-third the time, and it's much frsher tasting than microwaved food.

The Guy Grub Guy has a kitchen that looks more like a hardware store. He cooks in a shop apron and wears a hard hat. And he uses the tools you have in your garage in his kitchen when preparing recipes. That's what most of his videos are about too: how to use things like pliers, saws and hammers as cooking utensils. Don't miss this!

Fix My Recipe is where regular, everyday home cooks can submit to the website recipes they may have once had right, or recipes that might have been handed down from a relative, but when they cook them now they come out all wrong. You know you have a few of those. Chef Billy Parisi then turns your recipe into a cooking video!

I like to get creative with recipes and ham is such a great meat, you can add it to just about anything and have it taste good. Here are some fun things you can do with leftover ham, including lots of great and tasty ham recipes.

Here are LOTS of ways to improve on the traditional Campbell's green bean casserole recipe. More variations and modifications than you can imagine -- to make this year's green bean casserole even better!

Here are some ways to use leftover turkey in creative, fun, and appetizing ways... Lots of turkey recipes that will put your leftover holiday turkey to good use!

It depends on where you live and the kind of power you use for your home. If you use gas to cook with, then a crockpot may not make as much of a difference.

Here are some fun ways to flavor plain popcorn and keep it healthy, plus lots of flavored popcorn recipes that are also healthy.

Making really good pancakes from scratch is very easy, takes only a matter of a few extra minutes and creates no more of a mess to clean up than making them from a mix.

The latest new artificial sweetener goes by the name of Splenda. According to all the hype, it is made from sugar and because of that it is safer. But is it? The following information will make you think twice about using Splenda and other artificial sweeteners!