First, take a Dutch oven large enough to comfortably hold a three-pound roast, place it on the stovetop, evenly drizzle in the corn oil, and set the flame to medium-high. Then while the oil is coming ...

SOS, the international Morse code distress signal, is familiar to most citizens, but for anyone who served in the military, it has a symbolic meaning related to military mess halls that is basically ...

Recipes that appear in Idea Alley have not been tested by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Chuck Barker’s SOS for S.O.S. resulted in several responses. We can’t print what S.O.S. stands for, but in ...

I wrote a column published in April about recipes for chicken and turkey a la king and noted a “memory lane” moment about how this creamy entrée was packaged in the late 1960s as a popular frozen ...