Cooking Articles

Recently while getting my nails done, I had a chance to catch up with Cindy, the Vietnamese owner of the salon, about her Thanksgiving plans. As a first generation immigrant, I had imagined that if she...

If you’re planning on cooking for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, you know the deal: Count on being in the kitchen and spending more time prepping, chopping, sautéing (and basting!) than usual. ...

Can Thanksgiving happen without potatoes? I suppose it could, in theory. But it wouldn’t be much of a Thanksgiving, would it, without at least two dishes of America’s favorite tuber? To give...

The best turkey I've ever eaten was at the home of the owners of CDKitchen last Thanksgiving. Last year Valerie and Brent invited me over for the traditional holiday fixin's. When I arrived in the middle...

Much has been written about the challenges of the teenage years. All those hormones, all those neural connections forming and purging, it can make for some challenging times. Misunderstandings can happen...

Allow me to make a case for salads at the Thanksgiving dinner table. This staple side during the year is too often overlooked as an option on what is arguably America’s most important food holiday....

With a busy preschooler in the house, we are knee deep in Thanksgiving arts and crafts this year. Homemade feather headdresses and pilgrim bonnets, and of course the infamous turkey made out of a hand...

The holidays have a funny way of sneaking up on us. I swear just yesterday it was the first day of September and now Thanksgiving, one of my favorite holidays, is here. After such a busy fall, I am looking...

As my friend heads home to the Midwest for Thanksgiving dinner this year, she and her extended family of about 30 aunts, uncles and cousins will be sitting down for a dinner of roast turkey, ham, and all...

I learned a funny new saying this week from my son’s teacher: Respect the Turkey! She said her family is fond of using that expression in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving and it has become their...

Thanksgiving will be here in a few short days, and that means many of us will enjoy a dinner with loved ones, giving thanks and sharing in an all-out eating affair. Across the country, Americans will...

Whether or not you are cooking Thanksgiving dinner this year, I’m not going to bore you with details of the best fillings that have graced our tables, of the perfect way to mash potatoes, or the best...

We’re just one weekend into the holiday season, and I’ve practically popped a few buttons already! As we peruse all the magazines, internet, and old handwritten family recipes to make the first batch...

Perhaps you find yourself a few days past Thanksgiving with turkey still in the fridge. Maybe you have already eaten several meals of leftovers from sandwiches to turkey soup. But the turkey remains....

There are some foods that are indispensable to the holiday season. For each family it might vary but these are the menu items that never get changed from year to year, and the recipes get passed down amongst...

You Can't Pet a Chicken, Or Can You?

It all started when daughter expressed interest in incubating some chicken eggs this past spring as part of a science project. After carefully turning the eggs three times a day and making sure the incubator...