Pineapple Rum BBQ Sauce & More Recipes For National Barbecue Month

May is National Barbecue Month, and May 16th is National Barbecue Day. What better way to celebrate than by making your own barbecue sauce. Today’s featured recipe is a Pineapple Rum urbon BBQ Sauce made with dark rum. There are additional links below to more recipes that use beer, bourbon, cola, and dark chocolate. Barbecue…
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Shaker Vinaigrette Recipe: Easy To Make Salad Dressing

[1] Whether the salad is plain or fancy, we prefer a vinaigrette dressing (photo © Nadine Primeau | Unsplash). [2] Just add the ingredients to a jar and shake your vinaigrette (photo © Colavita).   It struck us that quite a few people we know don’t know how easy it is to make a shaker…
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Maple Syrup Recipes For National Maple Syrup Day

[1] The different colors represent the different grades of maple syrup (all photos © Pure Maple From Canada). [2] Maple Syrup Taffy On A Stick. You can make it plain, or roll it in bacon, dried cranberries, nuts and more. The recipe is below. [3] Maple syrup goes way beyond breakfast, like this Sheet Pan…
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Brownwood Farms Flavored Ketchup For Home & For Food Gifts

Yes, you can give ketchup as a gift to a foodie or a general ketchup lover. When it’s a “gourmet” ketchup like Brownwood Farms Ketchup, made in three flavors that add more excitement to burgers, fries hot dogs, meatloaf, sandwiches…wherever you use ketchup. Want to make your own ketchup? Here’s a recipe. You can even…
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Pickled Figs Recipe, A Condiment, Snack, & Food Gift

[1] You can use both green and purple figs in this recipe. A combination is more alluring (all photos © California Figs). [2] Kadota figs keep their color when pickled. [3] Mission figs, combined with Kadota figs, give the jar of pickled figs more eye appeal. [4] All figs, be they fresh, dried or picked,…
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