Cooking Articles

Seafood In The Slow Cooker?

You may have noticed that I rarely write about cooking seafood or fish recipes in the slow cooker. This is not because I don’t like seafood— in fact I love all kinds of fresh fish and shellfish. ...

To Market, To Market

Have you become bored with the humdrum routine of shopping at your giant chain supermarket? The same old sterile looking produce is offered each and every day of the year, no matter what happens to be...

An Oven That Never Goes Out

We've eaten and eaten until it hurts. Given a whole new meaning to just desserts, I've got my suspicions, but the pudding's where the proof is, And you know how sweet my tooth is.    "The...

4th of July BBQ Sauce Improvisation

What better way to celebrate this Independence Day than the traditional way with a backyard barbecue? Along with fireworks, watermelon, and blueberry pie, one of the great joys of July 4th is the time...

The Only Guacamole and Margarita Recipes You'll Ever Need

A popular culinary magazine has a feature where they ask someone who they would invite, from the past or present, to a dinner party and what the person would cook for the meal. It’s a fun question to...

June has arrived. Summer is officially upon us. Time to pack away the sweaters and the wool and bring on the linen and bathing suits. Nothing to hide the pot belly and saddle bags anymore. It is time...

Nutrition Spotlight: Protein

What’s for dinner? What does a body good? Got milk? Where’s the beef? (Yeah, I know that’s an old one!) Slogans, logos and catchy jingles come at us from every direction these days. And protein,...

We All Scream For Ice Cream (And Its Relatives)

It just doesn’t seem like summer without a giant ice cream in hand on a sunny afternoon. Even those who cry lactose intolerance have trouble resisting this iced confection. Creamy, smooth and sweet,...

As you can imagine, I have shelves full of cookbooks. Most of them are baking books, but I also have a good number of straight culinary cookbooks ñ various international books that I’ve picked...

Canned or Fresh, Tuna Revisited

Childhood is full of memories and for most of us those memories include foods that we just couldn’t stand eating. Whether your parents were generally good cooks like mine, or not so good, there was...

At the end of the day, men aren’t all that complicated. Whether it be your husband, brother, or even your dad, men are simple creatures with fairly simple tastes. With that in mind, when trying to...

“I like New York in June. How ‘bout you?” As soon as the weather is warm enough to entice slow moving foot traffic to make it worth closing down about five blocks of Broadway, the street fairs come...

Last week I discussed the "to bean or not to bean?" debate regarding Texas chili. I came down on the side of "no-beans," and debuted my own Texas chili recipe. My recipe makes a lot of chili, and as a...

Its misshapen, wrinkled, dimpled peel caught her eye. Did that spotty, yellowish-green appearance seem out of place among the other attractive fruit in the produce department? Evidently, since my kids...

We have always known that the key to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Thinking back to how our mothers cooked for our fathers, it might have been that very trick that we have to thank for bringing...

I’m convinced that Wal-Mart is only open after 9:30pm. That's because that’s the earliest I’ve ever been. Wal-Mart, or really any grocery store after 8:00pm, is a very dismal place to be. The fluorescent...