A shameless plug for votes in the Taste of Home FavChef contest! Kim of Glover Gardens is asking for your support.

A Glover Gardens Sandwich Wednesday slam dunk: Smoked Gouda, Proscuitto and Ham Panini on jalapeño-Cheese Bread. Can you sing hallelujah?

Savory, piquant, briny and tasting of the sea with wonderfully diverse textural components, this seared fish steak recipe is incredibly sophisticated and yet easy to prepare.

Salad for dinner is a winner if it is this Shrimp Cobb Salad. This salad is the PERFECT thing to do with cooked shrimp, whether it is boiled, baked, broiled or grilled

An easy, healthy rice pilaf recipe that amps up the veggie-to-rice ratio and hits a home run in the flavor competition.

An indigo-inspired poem about sunsets.

Used bookstores provide tangible and tactile links to the past along with a sense of community and connection.

An ekphrastic poem celebrating the Blue Chair by artist Don Mathison that hangs in the Glover Gardens kitchen.

Heart-felt culinary love prose in response to the dVerse Poets Pub prompt. Food is my love language… what’s yours?

This dish is squarely in the great-tasting but not gourmet category, comfort food that’s more assembly than cooking and comes together in less than 30 minutes. I promise you’ll have happy campers of every age when you serve it.

After the Super Bowl, the challenge of dealing with leftovers is real. Here are some creative ways to store, freeze, and reinvent those foods. With smart strategies, leftovers can transform into exciting new meals without the monotony – or the heavy-meal guilt and lethargy.

The menu is surf, turf and vegetarian, all hand-helds that are people-pleasing food. It’s a game-winning combination of flavors, colors and textures, and each recipe is simple but delicious.

Make this appetizer when you have leftover shrimp – or cook shrimp so you can make this appetizer. 😁 If you already have shrimp on hand, the recipe comes together in about 10 minutes. If you have to cook the shrimp and use our rapid oven recipe, it’s about 17 minutes. Not bad for a fancy-looking appetizer!

This queso is comfort food – recognizable, memory-conjuring, soul-satisfying, amazingly good. Dip a chip and revisit your childhood!

Seagulls’ simplicity and single-mindedness lays bare the basic necessities of their lives, their groundhog day existence: eat, mingle, survive, forage, fly together, chase shrimp boats, sleep, make raucous noises—and repeat.

Nothing says “game day” like cheesy, hand-held deliciousness that might just steal the spotlight from the halftime show. Nachos are happy-making food! Check out our Nachos Basics and master them yourself for this year’s Super Bowl.

Revisiting and dreaming of our short time in Copenhagen evokes a strong desire to return.

Short recording of a poem that’s whimsical, slightly naughty, is like an old-style fairy tale with villains (think the Brothers’ Grimm’s Snow White), and has a cat (shades of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats).

Random word sets are the basis for not-so-random haiku; find your own meaning in the wise crow and the wiser Dad.

Winter storm Enzo brought record-breaking snows to the South along the Gulf of Mexico. Brrrr! It’s poetry-worthy!