Smoked duck gets a second act in this rich, company-worthy dinner. We crisped the skin on cold smoked duck breast, paired it with a simple orange-garlic sauce and served it alongside creamy risotto.

Two whole smoked ducks became dinner, flatbreads, stock and eventually an unforgettable gumbo. It all started with a flavorful brine, a little patience and The Grill-Meister’s smoker.

A gift of fresh blue crabs at Gumbo Cove sent me into my vintage cookbook collection, where a family of creamy crab casseroles inspired this lemony Crab and Artichoke Casserole recipe. Along the way, I found patterns, party-food history and even more questions for Cooking the Past Forward.

Reverse-seared ribeyes and New York strips with a gorgeous crust, juicy red center, herb butter pan juices and seasoning options that make this the steak method we keep coming back to.

Smoked turkey isn’t just for the holidays. Our signature method uses a bold brine, Zippy Sicilian spice mix, and oak smoke to create juicy, flavorful meat perfect for meals now—and later.

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.

Zippy Coffee Rub is the magic behind our new Coffee Rub Steak Bites recipe, which is super-simple. And you can do cool things with the leftovers!

Glover Gardens Pulled Pork with Everything Rub and accompanying homemade Honey-Chipotle barbeque sauce is a delectable spicy-sweet, piquant dish.

Zippy Southwest pulled pork made in the slow cooker is savory with a rich, deep taste, but it’s not overly spicy. And what’s really cool is that it’s super easy!

Here’s an easy, foolproof, delicious and quick way to cook shrimp: roasting it in a very hot oven. And then you can use it in a variety of dishes, like this lovely salad.

A seafood boil is a communal experience, something you eat with your hands, get all over your face and don’t regret a messy morsel of.

Tender, succulent bites pack a one-two flavor punch of spicy-sweet and an aroma redolent of the Caribbean – this dish is a keeper. The jerk sauce and marinade are fabulous with poultry, but also with other meats and grilled veggies.

A decades-long subscription to Bon Appétit inspired this citrusy and piquant take on the ever-moist chicken thigh.

A comfort food picture shared on Facebook makes folks beg for the recipe – and here it is: Mary’s Magical Mexican Cornbread, with its hearty layer of meat.

A recipe created for fresh salmon caught that day in Westport, WA, with the few ingredients available at the town’s tiny grocery store.

Building anticipation for the New Orleans Jazz Fest by cooking some of our favorite Louisiana recipes at home, like Paul Prudhomme’s blackened fish. Yum!

Succulent, fall-off-the-bone-tender and spicy-sweet, these ribs are slow-baked before a quick char on the grill and get their flavor from honey and chipotle.

Spatchcocked turkey is everything you want in a turkey: moist on the inside, with crispy, savory, mahogany skin on the outside. Read about it here: Spatchcocked Turkey. Say What? This will be our turkey strategy again this year.

One reason I love to travel is the exposure to different foods, cultures, ideas and people.  A case in point is the food discovery from last night at a business dinner in Chicago:  short rib lasagne.  Wow!  It was a blustery, windy, rainy night, and…

A Fajita Craving When we’re at Little House in the Rockies, sometimes we have to substitute ingredients and combine things we wouldn’t ordinarily put together.  We were in the mood for fajitas on this trip but the country grocery store didn’t have skirt steak, so I…