Enjoy a variety of recipes form Apopka-area home chefs

Recipes for Kitchen Kapers are contributed to this column by The Apopka Chief’s readers or are selected from our many Apopka area community cookbooks. Send...

Enjoy the Florida winter with hot meals from area cookbooks

Cool wintertime climes have returned to us again, following another long, hot Florida summer! And, oh, yes, this wonderful so much appreciated annual seasonal change...

Try a new recipe with the delicious variety listed below

Cooking new foods we haven’t tried before is one nice way to help make the newness of a new year last longer, extending our...

Make delicious, diverse treats for New Year’s celebrations

Incredible. The past 12 months have so quickly rolled through our year 2015 calendars. Now the just-arriving New Year 2016 is bringing us an excited...

Cook up inspirational Christmas goodies for your loved ones

The Wassail Bowl with Baked Apples recipe below likely will happily remind “Kitchen Kapers’” readers of the classic Christmas carol lyric, Here We Come...

restaurant owners working for themselves

A fine-dining chef for the past dozen years, Ed Hollingsworth had always worked for others, but as he and girlfriend and business partner Jodi...

Make wonderful memories for the holidays with these recipe ideas

Thanksgiving is now part of Apopka’s and America’s history and happy memories, gone but not forgotten. Happily, however, Christmas season 2015 is now arriving,...

Showcase these tasty foods during holidays meals

Thanksgiving surely is one of the most challenging as well as one of the best of times for which a Kitchen Kapers column can...

They’ll ask for seconds with these breakfast recipes

As so often happens here, another of our frequent “trips” through as many of our Apopka community cookbooks as can fit into this column...

Practice cooking new dishes for the upcoming holidays

November is back. Some serious cooking time is here again! Thanksgiving is less than three weeks away. Then, just four weeks after that, we’ll be hearing all...