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Most home cooks appreciate any ideas that stretch weekly menus. Tasty and creative recipes, though, aren’t always easily found. Today, as luck would have it, we take a 6-pound pork roast and spread it ...

The National Pork Board has launched a free e-cookbook called “Cooking for Comfort.” It includes pork recipes from James Beard Award-winning chef Michelle Bernstein, barbecue expert Ray Lampe and ...

Lynne Tolley from Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House shared her recipe for Slow Cooker Whiskey & Brown Sugar Pork Loin Roast. (see recipe below) For more information about Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House ...

Welcome to Never Fail, a semi-regular column where we wax poetic about the recipes that never, ever let us down. This week: the roasted pork shoulder that senior editor Meryl Rothstein just couldn't ...

There’s a lot of inspiring stuff flying off the presses lately, and we’re thrilled to make room on our bookshelves -- but not at the expense of that one old favorite. You know, the cookbook whose ...

It’s almost Christmas. You should pat yourself on the back -- you’ve almost made it through the holidays. And if you have your Christmas meal planned, even better. If you’re still fine-tuning the ...

Recipes that appear in Idea Alley have not been tested by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Mississippi Roast, or The Roast as it's known at my house, is one of the most popular beef roast recipes to ...

If you prefer pasta instead of polenta, stir the basil, parsley, and butter into 24 oz. cooked spaghetti or rigatoni and serve alongside the pork. Pork shoulder gets the Goa spice treatment, with star ...