Modern Homecooking with a Midwestern Heart

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Let’s Poach a Chicken

Pieces of chicken on parchment paper.

If you dream of cooking more meals at home, I have a challenge for you: Poach a chicken.

You’ll wind up with a pot of delicious, homemade chicken broth at the end of it, and you’ll have enough chicken for several meals.

It’s easy, delicious, and downright therapeutic.

Recipes for Cooked Chicken

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Let's Make Salad Dressing

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Salad Dressing Recipes

Homemade Red Wine Vinaigrette Recipe

This Red Wine Vinaigrette is easy and fabulous. 5 pantry ingredients (including salt!) is all it takes for the easiest vinaigrette, ever.

2 minutes
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Bread Pudding Recipe

Put your leftover bread to work with this dreamy Bread Pudding drizzled with quick and luscious caramel sauce. It’s perfect for weekends and holidays with your loved ones. This recipe is easy to throw together…

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Weekend Baking Projects

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Hi, I’m Meggan Hill!

I’m the Executive Chef and head of the Culinary Hill Test Kitchen. Every recipe is developed, tested, and approved just for you.

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Cup of Soup

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Soup and Stew Recipes

Loaded Baked Potato Soup

Every bowl of Loaded Baked Potato Soup has all the delicious stuff you’d put on a baked potato, and it’s ready to devour in under an hour.

40 minutes

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Fish and Seafood Recipes

Beer Battered Cod

This Beer Battered Cod tastes just like those on many Wisconsin Fish Fry menus but proves that no deep-fryer is required to feast! This easy fish recipe is coated in a beer batter that’s crunchy,…

40 minutes

Cookie and Bar Recipes

Peanut Butter Cookies

Classic chewy Peanut Butter Cookies make the perfect pick-me-up, after school snack, or all around sweet treat. This old fashioned recipe is the one to bake, right down to the criss-cross pattern made with a…

55 minutes

Appetizer Recipes

Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus

There is nothing more addictive than tender asparagus spears wrapped in salty, crispy prosciutto. It only takes 4 ingredients and 30 minutes for this simple and delicious appetizer!

25 minutes

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