If you're a fan of slow-cooked baked beans, you'll love this easy recipe for white beans with bacon, beer, and rosemary. This dish requires time: the beans must be soaked overnight and then cooked in the oven for two hours, so plan ahead. The wait is worth it, though. The beans are rustic but elegant, and absolutely delicious. Entertaining? Serve with roast chicken and a green salad. To get the Read more

Need some healthy treats to power you through the weekend? These no-bake fruit and nut balls that reader be-healthful posted in the Healthy Recipe community group may be just what you need. See the recipe when you read more Read more

Baked fries are a healthy treat, and when you top them with flavorful additions like feta cheese and diced peppers, who needs overly processed condiments? FitSugar reader CarCarDawn shows us how it's done with her recipe for oven-baked feta fries, which she posted in our Healthy Recipe group. This recipe provides a lighter oven-baked version of cheese fries, with a Greek flare. Kali Orexi! Check Read more

The other day my sister was browsing the December issue of Food & Wine magazine and said, "We should make these baked eggs for breakfast sometime." She uses the term "we" loosely, and really meant "I" should make the eggs for her. Luckily, I took one look at the recipe and instantly wanted to make them! Cooked in a quick tomato sauce, these eggs are simple, but wildly delicious and very Read more

What's sugar and spice and everything nice? Cupcakes! And no one knows more about our obsession with the lil confections than Sophie LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis, co-owners of Georgetown Cupcake and stars of TLC's DC Cupcakes. The sisters, who learned their kitchen skills from their grandmother ("We followed her around the kitchen and always begged to help"), have been known to bake up to Read more

Want to turn up the volume on baked fries? Be like girlA and drizzle them with truffle oil! Here I go again with the truffle oil . . . guarantee you’ll love these! Truffle oil on French fries just go together like PB&J. I brought these to a get together and they were gone in minutes! You can peel the potatoes if you’d like, but I’m not fond of the peeling process. If they don’t have Read more

Although this Winter season has been rather strange, with all of the fluctuations in weather and temperature (it feels like Spring here today), it's still a great time of year to eat up hearty stews. The best part of stews is that the ingredients cook together for a long time so that all of the flavors meld and the end result is truly satisfying. We're always on the lookout for new combinations Read more

I'll never turn down a raw oyster, but when it comes to wooing someone with a cozy, baked version of the supposed aphrodisiac, this creole recipe is absolutely seductive. These oysters often get me invited back to parties (as long as I bring the oysters) and succeed in winning over oyster haters. Shuck your own oysters and serve them on the half shell, or buy a couple pints preshucked and bake Read more

A basic recipe and baking tips for making perfect macarons. Taking a chance with Indian bitter melon. This roast chicken recipe might just get you hitched. Watch George Clooney show off his home bar and kitchen. How to make chocolate-dipped strawberries in no time at all. All you need to select the perfect oyster assortment. Read more

We've always wanted to take a stab at rolling out a few Natchitoches meat pies. Thanks to an easy recipe from Food Orleans, this might be a dream realized sooner rather than later. [Baked or fried? You decide.] Natchitoches meat pies are one of those special little treats with a name as fun to say as they are to scarf down. Nackadish — that's how you say it — is a small town we drive through Read more