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Crockpot “Refried” Beans (No Pre-Soak Needed)
CrockpotGluten FreeGuest RecipeSide Dishes

Crockpot “Refried” Beans (No Pre-Soak Needed)

PollyApril 26, 2026April 26, 2026

My daughter married a Mexican man. Now she (or he) makes a pot of these “refried” beans every week. Her father-in-law claimed to not like refried beans. Said he never ate them. Eighteen months later, he’s eating these refried beans!…

Mexican Red Rice
Asst Holidays & EventsRice and PotatoesSide Dishes

Mexican Red Rice

PollyApril 26, 2026April 26, 2026

I have a grandchild with ARFID, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. She strongly denies it. She just says she likes what she likes and she’s fine. OK, but since the age of about seven he’s had about 22 very specific…

Agua de Jamaica/Hibiscus “Iced Tea”
DrinksGluten FreeNon-Alcoholic DrinksSeasonalSpringVegan

Agua de Jamaica/Hibiscus “Iced Tea”

PollyApril 26, 2026April 26, 2026

Agua de Jamaica is my drink of choice with Mexican food. The taste varies a bit from taqueria to taqueria and restaurant to restaurant, usually based on the ratio of the Jamaica concentrate to water and the amount of sugar…

One Dough-Four Cookies
Asst Holidays & EventsChristmasGuest RecipeTwelve Days of Christmas Cookies

One Dough-Four Cookies

PollyDecember 9, 2025January 13, 2026

The actual recipe includes five cookie versions, but four are much easier to make at once: make a double batch of the dough, divide it in half, then add half the quantity of ingredients for each variation to make four…

Wild Rice Turkey Soup
FallMain DishPoultrySoupsWinter

Wild Rice Turkey Soup

PollyNovember 30, 2025February 5, 2026

Happy day after Thanksgiving! If you haven’t done so already, boil up that carcass to get some delicious turkey stock, then make this soup—it’s delicious! You have to make this with your turkey carcass, have to, have to, have to! …

Bourbon Marinated Steak-Kabobs
GrillingMain DishRed MeatSeasonal

Bourbon Marinated Steak-Kabobs

PollyAugust 31, 2025September 16, 2025

Run out of time? Looking for something to BBQ or grill at the very last minute that doesn’t require a lot of esoteric ingredients? Don’t want too much prep, but still want something super yummy and a bit special? I…

Herby Flatbread for the Grill!
BreadsFor a Bread MachineGrillingPizza and TartsSide DishesSummer

Herby Flatbread for the Grill!

PollyAugust 28, 2025September 16, 2025

We love this! It does take a bit of finesse to cook the flatbread over a fire, and we are not always successful, but it’s a fun project to do while the BBQ’d meat is resting and the coals are…

Blueberry Crumb Bars
Cookies & BarsSummerSweetsVegetarian

Blueberry Crumb Bars

PollyAugust 24, 2025August 28, 2025

For a few years, we subscribed to Raddish, a cooking program for kids. Every month we received a box with three recipes, a kitchen tool, a cooking badge, table topics, and some related educational materials. Each box had a theme:…

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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.

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