The Key Ingredient

The Nice Thing About Rice

Sheri Castle shares recipes for Low Country-style red rice with shrimp and sausage as well as rice and garden peas in Parmesan broth. She visits Lee’s One Fortune Farm to see how it grows heirloom rice in the mountains, and then cooks with chef Ricky Moore for his “church lady good” rice and summer-squash gratin. Sheri also shares a tip on how to select the perfect rice for a recipe.

The Nice Thing About Rice

26m 46s

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    Hey Pumpkin

    S1 E108 - 26m 47s

    Sheri shares pumpkin perfection in the kitchen as Sheri cooks with chef Ashley Capps to make a dreamy pumpkin crème caramel. Sheri makes a delicious entrée salad with warm pumpkin wedges and a honey vinaigrette, delights with a whole roasted pumpkin stuffed with savory bread pudding and then shares some helpful tips on how to perfectly roast your pumpkin seeds.

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    Cabbage Love

    S1 E107 - 26m 47s

    Sheri is smitten with cabbage. Sheri’s luxurious cabbage soup is the perfect delicious and nutritious recipe and a cozy compliment of “really good” cheese toast seals the deal. A zesty chow-chow slaw will keep them coming with all the flavors and magnificent crunch. Sheri says a helpful hint on how to pick the very best cabbage and cooks along with rock star Joe Kwon of The Avett Brothers.

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    Buttermilk Magic

    S1 E106 - 26m 23s

    Sheri reveals the secrets of buttermilk and its magical powers with perfectly decadent chocolate buttermilk pudding. Learn how buttermilk is a meat tenderizier with her buttermilk-brined skirt steak with a wedge salad and buttermilk avocado dressing. Sheri also gives a helpful hint on why using buttermilk instead of curdled milk provides the key to any recipe and is easy to save and store.

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