• Tasty food star of family meals, parties • Learn pro recipes for breakfast, best dessert wines • Listed house great for get-togethers

• Wagoner residents showcase homes • Owner transforms old house into home • Wagoner winery sees success for beverages

• Candlelight tour displays area homes' Christmas spirit for fundraiser • Fort Gibson couple takes long-tern view of preserving the past • Couple shares Southern hospitality in form of food

• Homeowners settle down in unique homes

• Tour lakeside homes on Lake Tenkiller • Artist's move to Green Country spurs creativity • Burnt Cabin Marina and Resort undergoes major transformation

• Homeowners in the Kendall Place Historic District display classic homes • 'Renaissance' couple share love of art, life • Muskogee's Mahylon's restaurant shares secret for good barbecue

• Area builders show off craftsmanship • City's Historic Fire Station No. 1 sees makeover as brewery true to its heritage • Custom built home overseeing Tenkiller Lake put on the market

• Families open doors to homes for fundraiser • Area residents deck out homes for holidays • Artist utilizes many mediums to tell stories

• Four-deck home offers panoramic view of Lake Eufaula.

• Rustic, untamed beauty defines home • Couple embraces open, uncluttered look • Artists transform wood, clay into art

• Explore homes in Cobblestone Creek area

• Festive decorations announce the season.

• Alan and Beth Stacey's lake home blends home living and entertaining.

Whether you are in a hurry to get out the door for an early tee time or find yourself needing fast and flavorful fuel to keep you going midcourse, golfers need quality nutrition in a convenient form. Here are five great options.

Homeowners of a Country Club-area home in Muskogee are blending contemporary technology into their traditional-style home.

• Country Club-area homes show owners' style • New look, new name for muskogee golf club • Classic or craft, cocktails are cool

Smaller is better at Muskogee Golf Club.

Jerry Taylor volunteers for a variety of activities, but if he ever volunteers to cook for you, it can be a colossal, award-winning deal. Taylor, who works as a life safety technician at EASTAR Health System, has been on their master barbecue team for the annual Exchange Club Chili & BBQ…

John Tipton Jr. keeps things simple when he cooks.

I had an interesting question posed to me recently; Is there a wine that pairs well with game?

Doug Buse is giving new life to V.V. Vernon’s 95-year-old Kendall Place home — one room at a time.

Grace “Pam” Parrish often introduced herself as “an Okie from Muskogee.” She embraced Merle Haggard’s now famous song the first time she heard it and was always proud of her Muskogee birthright.

The Morris Loft

Terry Wilson’s man cave started when he and his wife moved out to their log cabin, a small affair above Tenkiller Lake.

Mark Wilkerson’s man cave — a compound that sprawls out behind his house, hidden behind a line of trees — started with a treehouse.

Billiards, big televisions, bars and children takeovers are the prominent features that make relaxation dens into Green Country man caves.

Bruce Mumford has been fascinated with fences since childhood. He doesn’t really know why these wood, brick, iron and stone beauties are so enchanting to him but he seldom misses an opportunity to admire a handsomely constructed fence.

Kim West offers the following tips on preparing a great steak:

• We are cave men still • ‘Good fences make good neighbors’ • Wine, wild game make flavorful feast

Tahlequah artist Jerald Peterson paints the world on his canvas.

Henry and Joanne Moran moved to smaller quarters without leaving the Kendall Place home they love.

Hours may seem endless when you smoke a turkey for a holiday feast.

Sarah Turner has been nestling red birds into a tree as a long-standing tradition to pay homage to her grandmother.

Fall has quietly, calmly and inevitably arrived, and the holidays and winter are not far behind. This is the time to relax at home or to spend time with family and friends, gathering over food and wine. Finding the right wine for your dinner or event is important but can be stress inducing.  

A historical home in Tahlequah is a throwback to a bygone era of Christmas decor.

One Christmas tree glimmers with red and gold instruments — French horns, harps, violins, lutes, lyres, guitars and trumpets.

When the Christmas Home Tour opens, visitors will find as many holiday decorating ideas as there are toys in Santa’s sack.

Copies of the Green Country Living Holiday 2015 issue are available at the following locations:

• Help others by taking a tour of holiday homes • Discover the sweet tradition of holiday candy making • Step beyond the bounds of tradition with a smokin' holiday dinner

Cracked, creamy, caramel or chocolate — we can’t have Christmas without candy.

A lifelong artist’s earliest canvas was the walls of her uncle’s home, where she scribbled her first drawings as an infant.

Carrie and Mike Rigsby found a 100-acre hideaway only minutes from where they work and shop. 

 Patty George calls her home in Muskogee’s Kendall Place district “a love gift” from her husband, Ronnie. 

GORE — An Oklahoma couple found paradise hidden beneath the unkempt undergrowth of an old, neglected motor court.

• Couple creates sustainable getaway resort in hills near Gore.

Copies of the Green Country Living magazine Spring 2015 issue are available at the following locations: