Fast Easy Recipes

9 Super Bowl snacks made healthy
The average football fan eats about a day’s worth of calories during the big game, and the U.S. Calorie Control Council estimates that Americans pack away 11 million pounds of chips on Super Bowl Sunday. Instead, snack on these delicious and healthy game day recipes

Cook up a Super Bowl feast
This Super Bowl feast features a TV dinner of sticky ribs, creamy coleslaw, homemade pickles, cornbread and saucy beans.

Home fermentation: Add a little culture to your cooking
Fermentation is one of mankind's most ancient forms of preservation. In our contemporary lives, however, we leave much of the work to professionals.

Pass, punt and feast your way to a super Super Bowl party
Super Bowl Sunday wouldn’t be complete without some great food to munch on, but finding and deciding on new appetizers can be frustrating. Well, look no more, several Sedalia Democrat readers and staff have contributed a few of their favorite recipes.

Putting on the pressure for bean recipes
A reader's request for a recipe to make beans in a pressure cooker elicits several responses from Tampa Bay area cooks. See more in the recipe exchange.

Super Bowl: Score with entertaining tips, recipes and, yes, exercise to make a super party
When was the last time you went to a casual party and salsa wasn’t on the table? Super Bowl Sunday is certainly one of salsa’s finest hours — make that four hours. As one of America’s favorite condiments, there’s a dizzying number of salsa brands to choose from.

Recipes: Broccoli Cheese Soup, The Perfect Chocolate Cake and more
Broccoli Cheese Soup and The Perfect Chocolate Cake are among the recipes that were requested by readers.

Gutschke: Enjoying fish is beef country
Texas may be beef country, but fish and seafood are part of the state's rich culinary heritage too.

Beans swaggon unbelievably economical, nutritious
Posted Jan. 10, 2012, at 5:16 p.m. We need a beans swaggon revival. What a warm and comforting, richly beany, chowder-like dish. A couple of weeks ago Bev Bubar wrote to say that she remembered her grandmother cooking swaggon all day on the back of the wood stove.

Taming of the chew
Yes, you can work magic with lesser cuts of meat. Ever tried dunking meat in Coca-Cola?