Meat & Poultry

Thankfully, baking a traditional Easter ham is easier than ever with the variety
of hams on the market. Gone are the days where a ham demanded presoaking,
boiling and baking. Of course, if you want to cook the traditional country cured
ham you can. Most home cooks opt for the precooked, spiral-sliced wonders.
However, whatever ham you prefer it pays to bone up on the basics. …

During March Madness, ideally you’ll want food you can eat with one hand while grasping the remote with the other. Avoid any dish that requires utensils so you’re not dividing
your attention or the main course. As a change from popular chicken wings, prepare chicken fingers as an entree. …

While many bars and restaurants continue to offer cheap chicken wings as an
enticement to get diners and drinkers in the door, the demand for the little
bits of bird has increased so much in the last decade that wholesale costs for
wings have more than doubled. Chicken breasts prices, however, have decreased. …

Planning the Easter meal typically begins with the proverbial question: ham or
lamb? Both have been showing up on the Easter table for hundreds of years. History aside, most Americans opt for ham these days. Make that 70 percent of
U.S. tables, according to the National Pork Board. …

Why bother with whole when what you want is parts? Because a whole chicken is more than the sum of those parts. …