Cooking Articles

Like Bees to Honey

This past week I was walking along with my dog in the park, when all of the sudden a little bee got tangled up in my clothing. Next thing I knew, I felt a painful stinging sensation through my shorts,...

Speedy Spiedini

In Turkey they’re called kebabs and in Thailand they’re called sate. If you are in Italy, or an Italian restaurant around the world, and meat or fish is served skewered and grilled it is called spiedini....

Peanut Butter and Jelly 101

When you ask many kids what their favorite lunch is, I’m guessing more than a few will tell you the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Now that the busy school year is underway you probably have made...

The Icing on the Cake

Teaching cake decorating in an article is an impossible task, and there are certainly plenty of books on the subject. But I'm going to give you some helpful tips that I've learned that will make icing...

Chinese-Style "Clay Pot" Slow Cooking

Lately, I have been on a Chinese food kick. So naturally my thoughts have turned to how I can replicate some great Chinese-style dishes in the slow cooker. You might say, Wait, aren’t most Chinese...

Summer Bounty Meets the Fall Harvest

September is the limbo month. Monday can mean a scarf and gloves and by Friday the heat might have you back at the beach for some end of summer sun bathing. The morning’s crisp air brings the excitement...

Cooking Without a Kitchen

Recently, we decided to take the plunge and embark on a kitchen renovation to upgrade our current kitchen. That means my home kitchen is under construction and seeing that I have no way to bake, roast,...

A Meal Fit for the Fall, Drink and All

Do you ever buy the dress to match the shoes? How about making dinner to match the cocktail? It is that time of year when the fashion mags are three inches thick, the stores have changed their displays...

Lotta Chocolate Love

We just love chocolate around here. In fact I’ve been seriously considering buying more than one or two packs of chocolate chips at a time. For it seems like whenever I need to bake a batch of cookies...

Read and Eat: Chicken & Dumplings

It’s a meal that I haven’t made in over a decade, and I can’t even say I had plans to anytime in the near future either. But then it so happened that daughter read—and inquired—about it while...

Garlic Breath Recommended

Over the summer, I had the chance to guest teach at a friend’s dance school. We had gone to college together, and she graduated before I did, moved back to her home state of Pennsylvania, and took over...

Slow Cooking From Sea To Shining Sea

When you think of the term American cuisine, what often comes to mind first are hot dogs and hamburgers, French fries and apple pie. But there's so much more to American food than that. North American...

Revisiting Red Sauce

There was a time when “red sauce” was synonymous with Italian food. Thank the Sicilian immigrants to New York’s Little Italy who brought their grandmother’s meatballs and secret sauce recipes....

Mexican Melting Pot

Mexico City has just made my Top Ten List of favorite cities in the world. When I told people I was going to Mexico for a few days, they instantly thought of me and some crazy friends in Cancun making...

Can Nachos Really Be a Healthy Snack?

Crunchy, salty corn chips. Hot melted cheese. Tangy salsa. Add ‘em all up and what do you get? Nachos. It all started with one cheese stick and an 8-year-old’s ingenuity to kick off a super nacho...

Humdinger Hummus

The heat has finally let-up here in the Grand Republic of Texas, and so life is increasingly more comfortable outdoors. In fact, I'm typing this on my patio as a cool breeze wafts under my nose, birds...