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Slow Cooker Barbecue Beef

Slow Cooker Barbecue Beef

Barbecue beef made slow and easy. As Ina Garten says, “How easy is that?”

Grilled Chicken with Peanut Sauce

Grilled Chicken with Peanut Sauce

This is an easy recipe for chicken satay but without the skewers and additional dipping sauce. You will never even miss them!

Tequila Lime Shrimp

Tequila Lime Shrimp

Oven roasted shrimp, marinated in a flavorful tequila lime sauce = happy faces all around your dinner table!

A Day in Port: Skagway

A Day in Port: Skagway

Read about the top things to do while spending A Day in Port: Skagway.

Southwest Salad with Cilantro Dressing

Southwest Salad with Cilantro Dressing

There is nothing better than a fresh, colorful salad topped with a tasty cilantro dressing. Yum and yum again!

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

The new year was barely fifteen hours old in Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, when my pa adjusted the courting candle, setting it to burn for an alarming length of time. Satisfied, Pa carried it out of our one-room log house and onto the hand-hewn porch. He was hopeful. Hoping 1936 was the year his only daughter, nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter, would get herself hitched and quit her job with the Pack Horse Library Project. Hoping for her latest suitor’s proposal.