Meat recipes for every occasion include slow-cooked elk, low-sodium pork tenderloin, and perfectly seared filet mignon. Master oven-roasting in bags and electric smoker techniques for the best pulled pork.
Le Creuset makes a wide variety of well-crafted kitchenware -- from its iconic enameled cast iron casseroles and “French ovens,” to stoneware baking pans and au gratins, to stainless steel sauce and saute pans.
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Roaster ovens replaced labor-intensive wood stoves in working class homes as rural electrification made them obsolete in the 1930s. Not just oversized slow cookers, roaster ovens do everything from apple crisps to holiday turkeys.
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Pig roasts have been popular for years, but Southern barbecue fans and the Cuban community of Miami enjoy grilling their whole hogs. Before attempting this feat, find a large, covered grill. The smallest pigs weigh about 75 lbs. -- almost four times the weight of a fully-stuffed Thanksgiving turkey.
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Around the holidays, butchers’ cases contain a variety of hams, some pricey and some inexpensive. Before choosing a ham for your table, find out how much and what type of cooking it needs -- or if it needs cooking at all.
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Each cook has a favorite barbeque recipe, whether for chicken, ribs or pulled beef or pork. The secret to the successful finish to barbeque, however, lies not in the preparation or the sauce but in the cooking.
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Hams are cured with salt, nitrites, seasonings and preservatives that give it a pink color and tender texture. Picnic hams weigh 5 to 8 lbs. and come from the front, or shoulder, of the animal’s body.
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