How To Make Your Fireplace Holiday Ready

 This is the season for fun and family, made even more special when your home is decorated for the holidays. Take advantage of the holiday season and make your fireplace the decorative center piece that everyone will want to gather around...

HouseBeautiful

Fancy Meals In Your Fireplace

 Fireplaces are so versatile, they provide many benefits to the owner. One of those benefits is the ability to cook a gourmet meal in your fireplace, with minimal work or mess to clean. Check out the following recipe:

INGREDIENTS

• 3 lb beef tenderloin

• Lots of kosher salt

• 1 large cotton flour sack, or old cotton dish towel/napkin

• Kitchen string

• 1 oven mitt

• Long handled tongs

• Platter and carving surface

• Wood Burning Fireplace

Epicurious 

The Best Holiday Drinks To Enjoy Around The Fire

One of the best parts of this time of year is enjoying seasonal drinks by the fire. Set up a comfortable area around the fireplace and enjoy one of the following delicious seasonal drinks...

Country Living

The Hottest In Fireplace Design

 As we make our way into a much colder season, we make use out of our fireplaces as much as possible. Is your fireplace the style you want it to be? Does it reflect your personal style? Check out some of the most stylish designs for inspiration...

Country Living

Mantel Magic

 Mantels are one of the greatest benefits of owning a fireplace, because they provide a place for decoration, a place for personalization. Is your mantel all that you want it to be? Check out the following mantel designs for inspiration...

HGTV

Make Your Mantel Holiday Ready

How ready are you for the holiday season? Are your stockings hung with care over your fireplace? Take some tips from design expert on how to make the most of your fireplace mantel holiday-ready...

HGTV

Fireplace Decor For Fall

 As we get closer to Thanksgiving, excitement gains as we think of all the possibilities this holiday presents. One of those possibilities is the great decor this time of year provides. Check out some beautiful and easy ways to decorate your fireplace mantel this year...

HouseBeautiful

Do-It-Yourself Wreaths

Wreaths are an easy way to upgrade your fireplace design, and they are easy to make. Take a look at the following ideas to make your own beautiful wreath, and use it to decorate your fireplace mantel.

Good Housekeeping

Pizza In The Fireplace

 Homemade pizza is the best kind, because we get to construct the perfect pie with our own hands. Even better is cooking the pizza in your fireplace, because you get that brickstone smokiness that is usually only found in restaurants. Follow the tips below for  the best fireplace pizza...

Any barbeque wood makes excellent cooking wood. Oak, nut woods, hickory, pecan, fruit wood, apple wood, cherry, peach, even dried corncobs can be used. Personally, I prefer oak or pecan. Fortunately, I have four pecan trees in my yard. This is a good way to use up tree trimmings.

MIAMI 

Cook The Best Steak In Your Fireplace

 Do you love steak? Do you own a fireplace? If you answered yes to both, then you have all the ingredients for an awesome night in. The following article is filled with tips on what type of cut to cook and how.

Tuscans like their steaks rare, and this bible-thick Porterhouse spends just enough time over a charcoal or wood fire—often in the fireplace—to sear the exterior dark and crusty while leaving the center still mooing. In a perfect world, you’d start with dry-aged Chianina, a massive breed of white cattle native to Tuscany, seasoned profligately with coarse salt and pepper, and drizzled with green Tuscan extra virgin olive oil. The meat juices and oil form the sauce. Lemon wedges optional.

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