Cooking Articles

Rub a Dub Dub, Cooking Up Some Fun In The Tub!

With the close of the holiday season, you and your kids may feel like you’ve been stuck in the house for a long time. With a long, cold winter ahead for many parts of the United States, you may be looking...

Puff the Magic Pastry, Part II

Most commercial bakeries these days don't make their own puff pastry, even some of the fancier French ones (shhh!). The ones that do sure aren't making the stuff by hand; they use a sheeter, which is...

Health(ier) Eating

I can tell the holidays are over. It’s not just all the Christmas decorations and candy on sale for 99% off the original price. It’s not the leftover gift bags or crumpled wrapping paper still loitering...

Eating *Right* In The New Year

Now is the time of resolutions. While most New Year’s resolutions involving food tend revolve around eating less of it, I propose this be the year not so much of eating less as eating right. Eating...

New Ideas For The New Year?

Once the New Year starts, it’s time for "out with the old, in with the new," right? You’re tired of the same old, same old. It’s time to step off the tired old dinner train and onto an exciting...

Soup and Salad: The Perfect Non-Diet Diet

I have never been one for diets. But it is the beginning of January, which means after over a month of over-indulging, even the most diet averse are starting to think about ways to slim down for the New...

Amazing Meals the Whole Family Will Eat

Do you find yourself in the situation of cooking different meals for different members of your family? One of your kids doesn’t eat anything but pasta and the other is a meat lover. Your husband is...

Do-able New Year's Resolutions

Well, it’s the New Year. Are you ready for it? Is it a fresh start or just another day, another week? Well, judging by the attendance at Times Square, and all the dinner reservations and night-out...

Start Your Year Off Right: Slow Cooker Spaghetti

There’s nothing like stepping through the door when there’s an Italian dish brewing. With its garlicky, rich olive oil, hint of tomato undertones, Italian food has that magical way of making the whole...

January Challenge Part II: Menu Planning

Now that you have committed to eating out less and cooking more at home, whether through your own New Year’s resolution or in taking up the challenge outlined in last week’s column, it is time to follow...

One Pot Dinner and Defrost

This is the weather that chills to the bone. When your fingers are in a constant state of semi-numb and you have long since lost feeling at the tips of the toes, the last thing you want to be doing is...

A Globally Warmed Winter Menu

According to certain members of Congress, global warming does not exist. At the moment, with Colorado residents dealing with their third major snowstorm in the last month, I have a feeling that many...

Extreme Teen Flavors

It all began several months ago when my son tried green Tabasco sauce, part of an experiment for a new recipe I was working on. Tangy and peppery, the green sauce doesn’t have the heat of the well-known...

The Other Tools

Every well-equipped bachelor has tools. I don't mean hammers and screwdrivers, people. I mean kitchen tools. Those who are not well equipped in the kitchen tend to be, well, they tend to be tools. ...

Marshmallow Dreams

There’s a wintery chill in the air and a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. This extra cold and snowy winter has turned out to be every winter sports enthusiast’s dream. When you come in from a chilly...

Petit Pasta for Little Ones

I recently was handed down a dense and somewhat ancient book on the cooking of Tuscany. A lovely but largely unusable book, the recipes and accompanying pictures outlined feasts for every occasion. But...