Cooking Articles

Five Food Myths

Chilean sea bass, baby carrots, peanuts, white chocolate, and wild mushrooms. What do they all have in common? They are not what they say they are. That's right. Read on... Myth 1: Chilean Sea...

Minding the Hen House

This weekend, my husband and I are watching two neighbors’ homes while they are out of town—one family is on vacation in Disney World and the other is in northern Indiana at the wedding of their oldest...

Frozen Food, Fresh

One time a couple of years ago, I was channel flipping and paused to watch a very over-rated cooking show. In it, the “chef” was presumably teaching viewers how to “cook” dinner. One of the recipes...

A Beer-Inspired Salad Dressing?

When recently dining at the New Holland Brewing Company, thanks to a recent press trip, it was a whole new meal experience to have a different beer paired with each and every course of the meal. Count...

Get Sugar-Smart

Did you know that one regular soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar? Plus (and this probably isn’t news to you), slurping sodas regularly will up your kids’ chances of obesity by 60 percent. Yikes. But...

Summer Soup, Bachelor Style

This is the hottest summer I've ever lived anywhere. We solar-beleaguered Austinians are moving into toward our fiftieth day of triple digits, and the annual August exhaustion has only just begun! It's...

Iced High Tea Time

There is something about that four o’clock hour. Hunger starts to kick in and a little pick-me-up seems to be in order. The English were on to something when they formalized the ritual of high tea....

Monday Night Raw In The Kitchen

It’s hot out there. Checking in with friends and colleagues around the country this week, the weather forecast seemed like I was having déjà vu no matter where I was calling. Helena, Montana: 90°...

Chinese Food For American New Year

I had an opportunity to visit Washington D.C. recently. It was my first visit ever, so I was overwhelmed by everything: the monuments, the museums, and the traffic. I only had one day in the city, so my...

The Salad Days of Summer

Well, it finally happened. The weather turned hot enough here to make me want salad for dinner. I know, I know, people in many other parts of the country have been sweltering for months now. But for...

Not Your Everyday Mushroom

Last summer, in Switzerland, I nearly drove my boyfriend off the road. Something had caught my eye as we wended up the hairpin turns leading to the slopes of Verbier in the Swiss Alps. I couldn’t help...

From My Mother's Kitchen Garden

With four rambunctious children under tow, my mother may have been something of a Super Mom during my childhood. As a working mother, her efforts to run us kids between baseball and ballet practice while...

Bunny Cakes & Buttercream Roses

Buttercream roses. It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? And it’s a phrase that sure grabbed my daughter’s attention. Buttercream roses entered our life with the book Bunny Cakes by Rosemary...

Kitchen Putties

There's something I've always wondered: if you walk into any Asian market or restaurant, you'll likely see a white ceramic or porcelain kitty-cat on a shelf or hanging on a wall. The kitty is smiling...

Blue Ribbon Food

We just returned from a fun night at the local country fair. It’s just a small annual event to support the resident fire company but still features lots of good eatin’ treats. When taking another look...

It's the Pizza Hour

Pizza. It’s a rare kid—or adult—who doesn’t like it. USA Today recently reported that 94 percent of Americans eat pizza. Whether you order out, go for frozen or decide to make your own, pizza...