Cooking Articles

Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Sausage

This holiday season I was overcome with an addiction to my mother's sausage balls. Every year for Christmas Eve my mother makes little brown balls of goodness with Bisquick, cheese, and the kind of sausage...

Good Luck Foods For The Year To Come

You may be gearing up for late night plans to celebrate the New Year, complete with champagne, fun cocktails and fancy hors d'ouervres. But have you thought about what’s on your menu for the day after:...

Earlier this morning I found myself in an all too familiar holiday panic over those last couple of gifts that need to be bought. I had fully intended to have all the shopping done by December first, but...

I may have found a new favorite Christmas movie and with it a host of inspiration for this year’s Christmas brunch. Many of us consider our families to be dysfunctional, particularly as we gather together...

A turkey and some mistletoe may help to make the season bright, but avoiding the turkey doldrums on the holidays has to be one of the season’s more difficult tasks. And as most of us do not have an...

When I first left California to come to college in Jackson, Mississippi, I faced the school cafeteria line with a great sense of trepidation. Steaming pans of grits and bacon for breakfast, country fried...

There were four of us kids growing up, ten years separating my older brother and the youngest with my sister and me sandwiched between. Christmas morning it was the job of whomever got up first to wake...

Caviar and sour cream may seem superior, but I think fresh applesauce is the perfect pairing for a potato pancake any day of the week, especially during the eight days of Chanukah. There are so many ways...

Latkes are the quintessential Hanukkah dish. Everybody loves them. How can you not? I mean, fried potatoes? If you're not familiar, the closest thing to a latke is a fast food hash brown. I kid you...

Christmas morning is a time of celebration and the last thing one wants is a kitchen debacle to interfere with the day’s fun. When balancing church-going with stocking rituals and present opening, a...

Did you ever stop to wonder how the delicious tradition of Christmas cookies came about? Cookies are as much a part of the holiday celebration as the nativity scene, a decorated tree, and prettily wrapped...

When trying to come up with a fun dessert to bring to a family Christmas Eve party, I recently came across a pretty cool idea ñ an chocolate sandwich cookie cake! Everyone loves Oreo cookies, right?...

Right now, you might still be debating what to do on New Year's Eve. Should you travel to a happening spot like Vegas in order to go to an expensive, crowded club or should you shell out for an expensive,...

There is something about watching a very big apple drop that causes Americans to plan big parties or big trips in anticipation of that life-changing moment when one Western Calendar year passes into the...

In my book, the winter holidaze ain’t a daze without the egg nog! I’ve never quite understood why people turn up their noses at this delicious concoction. For Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s...

Classic Cocktail Party, Redux

December 31, 1955. Any Town, USA. A beaming housewife in satin and pearls opens the door to greet her guests for her New Year's gathering. She takes coats and makes introductions, air kissing the husbands...