Cooking Articles

Fiery Chilies For Red Hot Summer

It’s getting hot out there. And I’m not just talking about the temperature. Check out the wares next time you are at the Farmer’s Market or roaming the produce aisle and you might notice an explosion...

Beet This Article!

A funny thing happens when you talk to people about a love-em-or-hate-em food such as beets. When you delve into it, into the passionate arguments for or against, you usually find that you're not actually...

Simple Pleasures: Jenny's Cooking Show

It all started with the marble-shaped onion sets that we discovered on the greenhouse shelf. “Let’s grow onions in our garden this year,” I suggested, selecting a box of small white and red bulbs....

Big Dirty Huevos Breakfasts

That Australian font of lyrical wisdom---the rock band AC/DC---had some dirty deeds done dirt cheap, and then bragged about the how big their huevos were. Although they're from Down Under, no doubt Angus...

A Salute to the Kernel

When I was a kid there were no video stores, pay-per-view, or movies on demand. If you wanted to see a particular movie, you just waited, sometimes for a year, and then sat in front of the black and white...

Summer Seafood For All

Seafood and summer are two words joined together in the collective mid-year consciousness. Lobster rolls are a fixture in New England. Clam bakes bring visions of family reunions on the Cape. Trays...

Brownies, A Legacy in Chocolate

As much as I love cooking food and having dinner parties, my strengths have always been in baking. Homemade cakes, cookies, bread, candies, and son on--foods that make the whole house smell like love...

Just Say "Oui" to Bastille Day

I love adopting other countries' holidays. In fact, I wonder if, due to the fact it is not my holiday and I have no real cultural obligations to it, I end up having more fun than a similar holiday celebrated...

Double Trouble In The Kitchen

If you take a look around at your kid’s school classrooms and activities, you start to see that there are quite a few sets of twins. Given the increasing number of multiple births these days, you probably...

Don't Mess With My Java, Jack

I recently attended a conference on coffee and tea bars and it got me thinking about just how important a good cuppa can be. There's a lot involved in coffee making, and a mistake or misunderstanding...

Retro Crockpot Cooking

The crockpot that is available today is usually a sleek, stainless steel, modern looking piece of equipment. But the one I remember from my youth was that pale avocado shade of green and had pastoral...

Getting the Blues for Super Fruits

It seems that everywhere we turn these days there is some different food with marketers telling us that eating it is the new secret to a long and healthy life. There was pomegranate juice a few years...

It's an Ice Cream Summer

Summertime for kids is all about simple pleasures like taking a refreshing afternoon dip in the pool, catching lightning bugs, or toasting marshmallows over glowing coals. But the essence of relaxed summertime...

French For Foodies

All over the world culinary professionals speak in the secret code of the kitchen. Historically used as the language of diplomacy in the political sphere, French is equally ubiquitous gastronomically speaking....

Strawberries and Leather

Everyone is always looking for the “next big thing”. And I think this is especially true in the culinary world. Faced with what some perceive as our easily bored and fickle palates, chefs seem to...

Bringing the Great Outdoors Indoors

Aside from bathing suits and swimming pools, nothing quite says summer vacation like sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows. Communing with nature, sleeping in the great outdoors, and cooking...