Pork spareribs, smoked sausage, and cured bacon are slowly cooked in a bed of sauerkraut to tender perfection. Choucroute garnie, a traditional specialty of the Alsace region of France, reflects its German heritage. Steaming platters of sauerkraut are piled high with a variety of hearty …

cabbage rolls Tender leaves of cabbage wrapped around a filling of seasoned ground beef, sausage, and rice simmered in a rich tomato and beef broth create this old-world favorite. Hearty and delicious, cabbage rolls to me are simply some of home cooking at its best. …

Few things compare to the tender meat of a pork shoulder roast. This versatile cut is one of my all time favorites. Properly cooked this roast if moist and full of flavor. Served for a Sunday family meal with mashed potatoes and gravy, sliced for …

Like the buried pot of stolen gold in Finian’s Rainbow, briskets of corned beef seem to have mythically multiplied and have magically appeared in grocery stores everywhere. This otherwise barely stocked item is suddenly mounded in almost every end cap in meat departments, and there seems …

Nothing compares to the flavor of a slow cooked chuck roast. The tender beefy taste of a well prepared chunk of beef is something that meat-lovers dreams are made of. Most likely because we have all been served many more dry, tough slices of pot …

St Patrick’s Day, the one and only day of the year that everyone who isn’t Irish, pretends to be. But why? I don’t think that the Irish are a protected class and somehow have better lives than the rest of us, or that the “Luck …