Cooking Articles

Refreshing Summer Sparklers

What do you like to quench your thirst with in the summer? During a hot day of outdoor fun, lots of people love to grab an ice cold glass of soda. Some of us even like to wake up with a morning glass of...

New Food of the Month: Plantains

Geography. It certainly wasn’t a favorite school subject. But then again, I came to appreciate the countries of the world as a late bloomer and through the back door. The back door to the kitchen,...

A Pinch of Pepper

The culinary world is full of food pairings. Wine and cheese, coffee and cream, soup and sandwich, pizza and beer… one without the other seems lacking. They just belong together. But perhaps the most...

Street Food Made Simple, Part I

Imagine driving down the main street of your town. As you drive you pass the bright lights of the many fast food restaurants that beckon you to stop for a quick dinner on the way home from work or a brief...

If you are the person who by-passes the scramble for breast meat at Thanksgiving in favor of the deeper, richer flavor of a turkey thigh, this article is for you. Even if you are a die-hard white meat...

One combination that goes particularly well together is "leftover" and "bachelor." Unfortunately for this single guy, leftovers remind me of feet: they might be fun to fondle after they're given a good...

This summer has packed quite a heat punch so far, with temperatures at or over 100 degrees across the land. If you have a backyard garden that you have been able to water faithfully, then you are probably...

The Slow Cooker On Leftover Night

Here’s a familiar scenario: you’ve gone out to eat and have gotten so full by the time your main course has arrived that you had to save most of your meal in a doggy bag. I am thinking of an Italian...

Do you remember the first movie you saw in the theater?  I remember mine. It was Grease, and boy, was I obsessed with that movie. I used to spend hours at a time looking at the album cover, which was...

Years ago, a friend of mine gave me a recipe for a no fat, low calorie, quick and easy pineapple angel food cake. The best part, according to my friend, was that it only used two ingredients: a box of...

I was on a press trip in Florida a couple weeks ago, trying out the spa services at a resort. I’m not going to lie. I love massages like a bee loves honey…or something like that. But eight hours in...

This weather calls for strategy. It is not just New York City, it seems the whole country is under siege right now from soaring temperatures, thunderstorms, and weather patterns where the only thing that...

Well, dear readers, I am on a diet this summer. I hate to admit it, but I suspect all these months taste-testing my own fabulous recipes in the Dr. Bachelor Test Kitchen™ and an extensive travel schedule...

In the film industry, there is something called “the willing suspension of disbelief.” Wikipedia defines this as the “alleged willingness of a viewer to accept as true the premise of a work of fiction,...

I knew the day that my second born son would try his first real food would come very quickly. The time seems to go by so fast with subsequent children, plus it looks like he is racing through his milestones...

My husband and I just welcomed a new member into our family. We brought him home and fed him and held him and made sure he felt safe in the new, big world. We felt bad leaving him at night, even when he...