Cooking Articles

The Many Ways to Bourguignon

A month ago I found myself staring at the defrosting hindquarters of a deer wondering how on earth I was going to prepare it. I was staying with friends at their rural Massachusetts farm. It is the...

Making Healthy Food Fun

Have you seen the guidelines recommended for kids’ healthy eating? They don’t mess around. For example, according to Jessica Seinfeld, author of the attention-garnering Deceptively Delicious, these...

One-Armed Slow Cooking

Just before the recent winter holidays, my husband had the misfortune to slip on a patch of ice and break his right leg in two places— the ankle and the tibia, while out walking our dog. This event...

Soup for the Soul

"Good soups I hold in as high regard as great breads and together they make some of life's sublime moments." -- Anna Thomas Soup, I believe, in all its simplicity, can be one of the most transcendental...

Drumming Up Some Chicken Memories

Chicken has been a very important part of my life from a young age. However, I’m not just talking about cooked chicken. No, I’m talking about the very alive, very annoying, real chickens that were...

Chicken Soup for the Ages

When the arctic chill of winter gets the best of you, the best thing you can do is eat a bowl of chicken soup. Packed with nutrients and loaded with flavor, chicken soup can cure the common cold and even...

A Prune In Plum's Clothing

If you’ve bought prunes lately, you may have noticed an interesting thing. They are undergoing a name change. Many packages bear both the words “prunes” and "dried plums.” This image upgrade has...

Dem Dirty Dish Blues

As an undergraduate I had a roommate, or rather, I had roommates, since my buddy's girlfriend practically lived with us. We were crammed into a small efficiency apartment in the Foggy Bottom district...

Not-Quite-Instant Noodles

The appeal of a cup of noodles is undeniable. Ask any college graduate and there was probably a time in his or her life when instant noodles were such a diet essential they could have been their own food...

Shortcuts In The Kitchen

Do you find yourself in a time crunch for almost every meal you prepare at home? I know I do, and lots of other parents I talk to do too. It seems like I always have hungry boys waiting on me, so in this...

Kitchen Aromatherapy With Infused Oils

When you are tired of the same standard weekday meals, it’s time to make your old slow cooker perform new tricks. It is at this point in the winter when I start wanting fresher flavors and a break from...

Spicing Up Dinner With The Indian Cupboard

It seems to me that as home cooks in America, Asian food tends to scare us. If the recipe doesn’t utilize premade teriyaki sauce, a jar of curry paste, or a packet of pre-blended spice mix, we’d probably...

The Birthday Express

As time goes by, I realize that the older I get, the faster it goes. However I was totally unprepared for this first year of my second child to go by so quickly. But here we are chugging full steam ahead...

On a day that’s all about love, Valentine’s Day is a great time to check how you are doing in taking care of your heart, and what you are doing to pass those healthy habits on to your kids. Heart...

President's Day is here and with the cold and snowy winter weather, you may be looking for some fun activities for your kids to do if you are stuck inside the house. As I write this, a record forty-nine...

Alas, loyal readers, we find ourselves again in that time of year when stuffy heads and the sniffles reign supreme. Whether you are suffering from winter allergies (here in Aus-Vegas, mold and cedar pollen...