For grilling, I usually throw the chicken in a gallon size zipper bag with my marinade of choice the night before cooking. When smoking a chicken, I use a variety of spice blends. For this chicken I used sea salt, coarse black pepper, dill, and garlic.

Getting your kids involved in the kitchen is a great way to spend quality time with them while teaching them valuable life lessons. When you are in the kitchen you use math, science, and more. It’s a great classroom! There is so much you can teach while simply baking cookies together.

Do you dream of preparing that perfectly crisp pizza at home so that it comes out just as good as (or better than) your favorite restaurant? If you know how to use a pizza stone you’ll be able to copy their professional quality.  A good pizza stone used efficiently by following these simple pizza stone [...]

This handy kitchen tip shares a surefire way to save fruits and vegetables that are going bad.

How to Keep Lettuce Longer
Food storage questions are common, especially since certain foods are difficult to keep fresh.  We frequently receive similar questions and concerns from homemakers about the same subject: how do you keep lettuce fresh?, how to keep lettuce longer, how to keep lettuce from turning brown, and how to keep your green [...]

Many times, the only choices for bananas at your grocery store are bright green, hard bananas that were clearly not ripe yet when they were picked.  There is an easy way to fix this! We’ll teach you how to ripen green bananas that takes minimal effort and you don’t have to spend any money on [...]

If you’ve ever wondered what to do with your leftover hot dog buns, we’ve got the answer.  Make them into delicious french toast sticks! 
Lonely hot dog buns - you know, the ones that don’t get used on hot dog night and sit in a bag on top of the microwave for a few days until [...]

Kitchen Tip: How to Store Marshmallows

Have you ever taken a bag of marshmallows out of your pantry or cabinet, only to find they were like little hard rocks?  Do you wonder what is the right way to store marshmallows so they don’t get hard? You’re not the only one!  While marshmallows aren’t food items most [...]

Kitchen Tip: Make a Crockpot Dinner the Night Before
Using a crockpot to cook your dinner all day while you’re busy or at work is a great time saver! However, what if you don’t have time to cut up the food, add the ingredients to the crockpot and otherwise put together the meal in the morning? [...]

Kitchen Tip: Label the Food in Your Refrigerator with Wet Erase Markers
Wet erase markers are a great way to keep all the food in your refrigerator labeled and dated.  The difference between wet erase markers and dry erase markers is that wet erase must be wiped off with something wet, like a sponge or [...]