Holiday Recipes
Each week, the menu takes inspiration from Lizzie Jacobs and Cordon McGee’s personal experiences from travels to family recipes
Goat cheese gives the cheesecake layer a soft and mellow tang, while a wisp of honey lingers through each and every bite.
This holiday season, we asked local chefs to share some of their favorite holiday recipes for seasonal dishes and desserts.
Cheerwine partnered with Hawthorne & Wood’s Brandon Sharpe to create this dessert recipe featuring the fizzy cherry soda.
For holiday entertaining or other festive occasions, here are some special cocktails from Crook’s Corner to make at home
Sheri Castle is an award-winning food writer, cooking teacher and public speaker. “I grew up eating these cookies. They came into vogue during the 1960s and ’70s when no-bake and other shortcut recipes popped up on the back of packages. It’s fun to dig through the family recipe box and pull […]
“Five years ago I was asked to attend a cookie exchange. At the time I was totally obsessed (and still am) with our Blood Orange Infused Olive Oil. I was also totally obsessed with learning to bake with extra-virgin olive oil as a butter replacement. OK, here goes with my […]
Want an excuse to stay in? Try this recipe from agonyofdewheat.com for a meal that’s Sunday night supper good on a Tuesday night timeline. My quick and easy version of White Bean Chili takes minutes to prepare and can be made ahead in the slow cooker for an even easier meal. Ingredients 5 cups […]
Blakemere Cakes Tiffin Squares 4 oz. butter 2 oz. sugar 2 Tbsp. golden syrup (substitute light corn syrup or agave if needed) 2-3 Tbsp. cocoa powder 10 oz. crushed digestive biscuits (or graham crackers) 4 oz. mix of raisins, finely chopped dried cherries and finely chopped dried apricots 6 oz. […]
“The Better Living Show,” a Durham-based radio program I co-hosted for over 15 years, was all about food. Every Wednesday, we interviewed well-known chefs, restaurateurs and cookbook writers who teased us with descriptions or tastings of their best, decadently rich dishes. After a few years, the station asked us to […]
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