Cooking Articles

Memorial Day is coming right up, and it seems like everyone is excited for summer to “officially” start. The time for barbecues, kicking back in a hammock, making homemade ice cream, watching fireflies...

Believe it or not, I am not a chocolate person. Even as a kid, I would turn down those tremendous Lindt bars that my grandfather would give to his sweet-toothed grandchildren. They just never really appealed...

Memorial Day is almost here. As the weather turns warmer and we head into grilling season, it’s time to gather your family around the barbie and cook some dinner. What’s better than hot dogs and...

It’s time to get out your team caps, your favorite player’s jersey and your oversized foam fingers because it’s baseball season! The season where your eyes well up, not from allergies, but from...

Summer’s almost here and school’s almost out—do you feel the rush of the time crunch as much as I do? It seems like it was just a few short weeks ago that I was putting winter scarves and hats away...

The mint growing in my small, bachelor patio garden is out of control. I mused last evening it was time to make some Mint Juleps, a perfect representative of the first and most important of bachelor food...

Ever since my children could stand beside me on a stool in the kitchen, I have given them age-appropriate tasks. It probably all started when they were tucked in a portable baby seat on the countertop,...

There is nothing worse than a piece of over-cooked food. Five minutes too long in the oven and pork roast goes from juicy to as dry as chewing on cotton balls. Give a shelled shrimp just thirty seconds...

A person cannot turn on the television, stand in a check-out line, or mill around a water cooler these days without hearing about a wildly successful book and DVD that promises you any thing you want....

Memorial Day is the perfect occasion to cook a classic American meal: hamburgers and hot dogs, or as my cousin Michael would say, “hams and hots.” There are literally hundreds of ways to season hamburger...

Edible Landscaping Part One: You Can Have Your Landscaping and Eat It Too

Ornamental landscaping helps define an outdoor space and enhance it for human use. When you think of a residential landscape you usually think of a green lawn, some trees, a couple of shrubs, and a border...

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial kickoff to summer: swimming pools, barbecues, and lazy days of taking in blockbusters at the local theater. But for all the new movies just out, there is something...

Yesterday I was trolling a popular foodie website that listed the Top Ten Things to Do in Philadelphia. It was sad really. Number 1 was "have a cheesesteak" and Number 10 was "eat pizza on South Street."...

My love of Mexican food never tires. After spending a week in Mexico, what do you think I had for lunch the first day back at work? A burrito! Even though most of what you might call Mexican food is not...

One of my favorite things to do this time of year is to head down to the strawberry patch and come out with a bucketful of fresh and juicy ripe berries. It’s an activity that all kids, young and old,...

Cooking in a Flash: How to Reheat Food without Overcooking It

It’s Saturday night and friends are coming for dinner. You have just one oven. Four dishes need to be cooked in that oven and served hot at the same time. There is no way you can roast a chicken,...