The Key Ingredient

Host Sheri Castle brings the heat with delicious recipes for hot peppers.

Host Sheri Castle shares recipes for everyone’s favorite stone fruit, the juicy peach.

Sheri Castle explores honey, a sublime ingredient that expresses the unique taste of “right here.”

Seafood takes center stage as host Sheri Castle explores all the delicious ways to enjoy crab.

Host Sheri Castle explores why everyone’s talking about the wonders of mushrooms.

Food writer Sheri Castle makes sweet potatoes shine as a sweet or savory staple.

Sheri fries up some crispy oyster rolls with both spicy and mild tartar sauces.

Food writer Sheri Castle puts a modern spin on a classic ham recipe.

Sheri creates a filling, hearty oyster stew with toasted benne seeds.

Buttermilk holds magical powers for tenderizing Sheri’s buttermilk-brined skirt steak. Serve with a wedge salad and Sheri's buttermilk avocado dressing.

Get an inside look at how buttermilk is created, from cow to bottle. Sheri takes a field trip to Ran Lew Dairy and visits with fifth-generation dairy farmer Randy Lewis to see his buttermilk operation.

Sheri’s luxurious cabbage soup is the perfect delicious and nutritious recipe and a cozy compliment of “really good” cheese toast seals the deal.

Sheri says a helpful hint on how to pick the very best cabbage at the grocery or farmer’s market.

A zesty chow-chow slaw will keep them coming with all the flavors and magnificent crunch.

Sheri cooks along with musician and foodie Joe Kwon for a sophisticated, grilled, deconstructed cabbage roll with sweet and sour meat sauce and rice that is as comforting and delicious as it comes.

Sheri prepares a delicious entrée salad with warm pumpkin wedges and a honey vinaigrette.

Sheri cooks with chef Ashley Capps to make a dreamy pumpkin crème caramel.

Sheri makes a whole roasted pumpkin stuffed with savory bread pudding, a positively pumpkin thrill.

To get into the holiday spirit, Sheri whips up a fluffy layer cake covered in buttercream and coconut.

Join Sheri in the kitchen as she prepares baked crab bites with a delicious rémoulade sauce. Not only are these crab bites easy to make, they’re sure to be the star of any holiday celebration.

Food writer Sheri Castle shares a hint for using all the parts of a whole country ham.

Sheri Castle heads to Tennessee to meet Allan Benton, the King of Country Ham.

Food writer Sheri Castle shares her country ham, fresh peach and lemony ricotta salad.

Food writer Sheri Castle shares a helpful hint about freezing fresh blueberries.

Sheri Castle cooks with Allan and Sharon Benton to make biscuits and red-eye gravy.

Food writer Sheri Castle shares some of her sweetest blueberry recipes.

Sheri shares her delicious recipes for cooking with heirloom field peas.

Sheri is in a mood to share her joy of cooking with marvelous muscadines.

Sheri shares her love of every kind of apple with scrumptious apple recipes.

Sheri says buttermilk is simply magic, and shares perfectly decadent dishes.

Sheri is smitten with cabbage and shares her favorite recipes and cooks with a rock star.

Sheri says some helpful tips on how to perfectly roast your pumpkin seeds.

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Food writer Sheri Castles serves up country ham goodness.

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From apples to oysters, Sheri Castle explores eight local ingredients from the ground up.

Cornmeal has a special place in Sheri’s heart; she shares her mouth-watering recipes.

Sheri Castle proclaims all the ways rice can be the star of your next dish.

On the coast and in the kitchen, food writer Sheri Castle finds figs galore.

Food writer Sheri Castle shares her favorite egg recipes.

Sheri Castle expresses her love of homegrown tomatoes and shares her favorite recipes.

Food writer Sheri Castle shares mouthwatering trout recipes.

From the fields to the kitchen, it’s scrumptious strawberries as far as the eye can see.

The egg clearly comes first in Sheri Castle’s “oh so lovely” lemon angel pie.

Sheri Castle makes cornmeal-crusted trout fillets with creamed corn and tomato relish.

The fish takes center stage in Sheri’s delicious Hot Smoked Trout and Potato Soup recipe.

Sheri Castle shares a helpful tip on how to blind bake a pie crust.

Sheri talks to the “Tomato Man,” heirloom tomato gardening expert Craig LeHoullier.

Sheri cooks along with Yordanys Bastardo to make his Dominican tomato and shellfish gumbo.

Sheri Castle shares her recipe for cherry tomato and black pepper cornbread panzanella.

Don’t miss Sheri Castle’s recipe for a savory summertime tomato pie.

Sheri Castle cooks along with Gabrielle Carter as she makes colorful pickled eggs.

Sheri Castle shares a helpful hint on how to check the freshness of an egg.

Sheri Castle whips up a delicious deviled egg salad recipe that is sure to impress.

Sheri Castle and chef Cleophus Hethington make a delicious whole trout dish.

Sheri Castle visits Grass Grazed Farm to wake up with the chickens and gather fresh eggs.

Figs reign supreme in Sheri Castle’s inventive fresh fig, orange and bourbon crostata.

Sheri visits the Outer Banks to find one of the world’s greatest diversity of fig trees.

Sheri Castle shares a helpful hint to quickly roast figs.

Sheri joins Trudy Austin in the kitchen and learns the secrets to a prized fig cake.