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Crockpot Main Dish Meatless Poultry Red Meat Side Dishes Summer Vegan Winter

A Crockpot of Beans!

PollyAugust 2, 2013August 28, 2025

I am so excited about this recipe! It’s a paradigm shift recipe! It’s not a recipe in the true sense of the word, it’s more of a road map to a particular destination. A road map allows for more flexibility…

Appetizers Breads Fall

Soft Pretzel Bites

PollyOctober 21, 2010August 28, 2025

If Jett can make pretzel bites, so can you! Time to play in the kitchen again! I am not a newbie to homemade soft pretzels. My favorite bread machine cookbook Bread Machine Magic has a recipe for Special Ed-ible Pretzels on…

Grilling Main Dish Poultry Summer Teaching Boys to Cook Series

Beer Can Chicken

PollySeptember 7, 2010August 28, 2025

My friend, Adele, is the queen of Beer Can Chicken. She even tried to teach me how to do it, but I failed miserably. Mine just didn’t have the flavor that hers had. Knowing I was beat, I decided that Adele would…

Fall Gluten Free Main Dish Red Meat Rice and Potatoes Seasonal

Blasted Sausages

PollySeptember 5, 2010August 28, 2025

Holy Moly! This recipe delivers in both taste and presentation! The original recipe stated this is a traditional Tuscan harvest dish, but I know I have never run across anything like this before—not that I have ever been to Tuscany…

About Me

It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

Enjoy!