Cooking Articles

A Cool Glass of Iced Tea from the Slow Cooker

There is nothing quite like a cool glass of iced tea to refresh you on a warm summer day. As June is National Iced Tea month, I thought I might share an easy technique to brew up a huge amount of tea...

A Cool Noodle For A Hot Spell

There’s barely a day when I would turn down a plate of noodles. That being said, the pastas of winter, like artery coating carbonara or dense meat-filled tortellini, are hardly the stuff of bikini-ready...

A Shower Fresh Party

For some reason I was under the impression that career women these days were waiting until later in life to get married. Judging by the number of weddings I will be attending this summer involving some...

Plan B on the Road: Food That Travels Well

If this summer finds you and your family motoring to the beach, the campsite or a summer cottage, there’s one thing you can count on: hungry kids. Plan A: Hop in the car and go. Stop at any available...

What's Your Flavor of Iced Tea

Iced tea used to mean one thing: black tea that had been steeped with water and served over ice. The only variation was in how it was sweetened. Southerners prefer to sweeten it while the mixture is still...

Ban the Tan

Today I’m taking a bit of a departure from my healthy eating focus to write about something I am very passionate about—preventing skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. with...

Summer of Sweet... Potatoes?

So yes, if you live in the Midwest or the South, you're probably thinking, "Now wait a minute.  Sweet potatoes are for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  And right now, it's summer.  What ARE you thinking, Jerri...

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...