Cooking Articles

I love the holidays. But luckily for my liver (and kidneys and waistline and …), the holiday season lasts only for a few weeks a year. Holiday season 2006 was a doozy. It was one that may haunt my...

Recipe for a Happy New Year

New Year's morning: a day full of promise, begun with resolutions and expectations of a better year to come. My first resolution on New Year's morning is generally some variation of swearing off alcohol...

Some New Ways to Welcome the Year

New Year’s traditions. We either love ‘em, hate ‘em or ignore ‘em. And yet from making resolutions to toasting the best that’s yet to come—or in whatever other ways you celebrate the arrival...

Get Lucky With Black-Eyed Peas

Everyone always makes lots of New Year’s resolutions. I used to. I recently went back to one my journals from age eleven, and read a list that I had written up the day before New Year’s Eve. A sample...

The New "Chip" Is Green

In a surprising entrance to the world of snack foods, kale is making a strong case for its place as the “new potato chip.” That’s right, kale--dark green and curly, flat and thin, red tipped, or...

New Year's Resolutions for Competent Cooks

The problem with New Year's resolutions is that they can be awfully tough to keep. �We tend to make resolutions for the more trying things in life that we wish to change but somehow rarely do. �This year...

Grits: A Neglected Fruit

Professor Bachelor Chow--that would be me--or Dr. BC for short, is from the Deep South. After a brief stint living in the frozen Midwest, I now thankfully reside in central Texas (pronounced "Tey-Hass"...

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...