Cooking Articles

Chestnut Choices

If Jack Frost has already started nipping at your nose, I sure hope you are roasting chestnuts, open fire or not. This seasonal delicacy is simple, festive, delicious and even nutritious. Like so many...

Cold Turkey

I’ve eaten Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant twice in my life. Once was with my first husband and our respective families. We went to a buffet where the food and the service were, in a word, horrible....

Classic Twists for No-Fail Parties

Party season is upon us and so begins the search for the perfect cocktail party spread. When putting together the menu the tension is always going to be between the desire to have crowd-pleasing recipes...

Food Packaging 101

I recently sent a box of baked goodies to a friend in Scotland. Fortunately, it arrived safe and sound, so I thought I'd share some tips with you so your home baked treats get to their destinations safely...

Progressive Crockpot Dinner Party

With the holiday entertaining season in full swing, it’s time to dig out some old favorite recipes and share them with friends and family. But the very thought of hosting a holiday dinner and planning...

Party Perfect Without Breaking the Bank

With the economy being what it is, it might seem like a contradiction to party this holiday season after what has been a very tough year financially for many people. That being said, celebrating the season...

Holiday Time Is Cookie Time

In case you haven’t noticed, this is the most wonderful time of the year. Whether you are party hopping or happily hostessing, the coming month promises a dizzying amount of revelries. In fact, December...

Mother's Little Holiday Helper

Normally, I’m not a regular at the ubiquitous coffee chain you can find in every corner of America; I only go if someone else asks me to meet up there. I like to make my coffee at home first thing in...

Every year my husband and his friends have a tradition of staging a pig roast. They wake up at the crack of dawn one November Saturday morning and get all the guys together. With a secret recipe and...

Recently while getting my nails done, I had a chance to catch up with Cindy, the Vietnamese owner of the salon, about her Thanksgiving plans. As a first generation immigrant, I had imagined that if she...

If you’re planning on cooking for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, you know the deal: Count on being in the kitchen and spending more time prepping, chopping, sautéing (and basting!) than usual. ...

Can Thanksgiving happen without potatoes? I suppose it could, in theory. But it wouldn’t be much of a Thanksgiving, would it, without at least two dishes of America’s favorite tuber? To give...

The best turkey I've ever eaten was at the home of the owners of CDKitchen last Thanksgiving. Last year Valerie and Brent invited me over for the traditional holiday fixin's. When I arrived in the middle...

Much has been written about the challenges of the teenage years. All those hormones, all those neural connections forming and purging, it can make for some challenging times. Misunderstandings can happen...

Allow me to make a case for salads at the Thanksgiving dinner table. This staple side during the year is too often overlooked as an option on what is arguably America’s most important food holiday....

With a busy preschooler in the house, we are knee deep in Thanksgiving arts and crafts this year. Homemade feather headdresses and pilgrim bonnets, and of course the infamous turkey made out of a hand...