Cooking Articles

Puff the Magic Pastry, Part I

Puff pastry is a wonderful invention. It's rich and buttery yet its delicately light texture makes it an extremely versatile ingredient in the kitchen. It can be made into myriad different things for...

Fun Foods For Family Game Night

During the week between Christmas and New Year’s, it seems more board games and card games are played than any other time of year. People are in the holiday spirit of family togetherness, and one thing...

Family Meals For The New Year

While cleaning up the house after our big holiday extravaganza this week, I started to reflect on what makes this time of year so special. One of my favorite things about the holidays is gathering with...

Welcome the New Year With Fondue

Memories. They can pop up at the most unexpected times, like when we set eyes on an item from our long-lost past. And that’s exactly what happened this past summer when the kids and I ran across a...

Just What the Doctor Ordered: Cranberry Hot Toddy

What’s the best way to ward off winter’s chill? Well, old Europe certainly had the right idea when they mulled wines and ciders with spices and created drinks we still know today as hot toddies. What...

January Cook-At-Home Resolution Challenge

Welcome to a new year and a new opportunity to fulfill those resolutions we always aspire to. If you take a look at most January magazine covers, it is pretty clear that this is the time of year to lose...

A New Year to Celebrate

One of the things I like best about New Year’s is the sense of fresh possibility. It’s like we get to start all over again. Even more of a new start than a new day, a whole new year is like a life...

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...