Cooking Articles

Haute Halloween

One week from today is the official "eat-all-the-candy-you-want" day in America. �If ever there were a holiday just for kids, Halloween would be it. �Costumes and candy, goblins and goodies, all seem like...

A Few Sweet Potatoes

I like to say “what if” and “why not” when I cook. The same curiosity and abandon often apply to choosing plants for our gardens. So, every year we plant one or two different vegetables or fruits...

Making Green Look Good and Taste Better

You know how your mom tried to trick you into eating vegetables by hiding the broccoli and sliced carrots between layers of penne and melted cheese for a particularly colorful take on baked Mac 'N Cheese?...

Game Day With The Slow Cooker

For many people at this time of year, all thoughts turn to football. Now I am not a big sports fan by any means. In fact, I have often embarrassed myself by mistaking a major league team for a minor...

An Egg For Any Time of the Day

If you are looking for what might be the world’s most perfect protein, look no further than the breakfast food favorite, the incredible, edible egg. Protein, a main component of eggs, is an essential...

Too Much Halloween?

When I was growing up, Halloween was a simple holiday— you carved pumpkins about a week before, and wore some sort of costume (usually homemade) on Halloween night. We had one neighbor who set up a...

Scary Foods: More Treats Than Tricks

Just like the monster lurking under the bed or those things that go bump in the night, there is nothing scarier than the unknown, and that goes for food too. When it comes to food, from childhood we are...

Fun and Spooky Halloween Foods

Halloween is a holiday that’s fun for all--both kids and kids at heart consider it to be a favorite holiday. While this occasion is a celebration of all things ghostly, it’s also the day to enjoy lots...

Halloween, Chompers and the Caramel Apple

Caramel apples: We’ve all heard of ‘em, chewed on ‘em, even enjoyed ‘em at fairs and farm shows (And hopefully not broken a tooth or lost a filling on ‘em). But chocolate turtle caramel apples?...

Ahoy! Pirate Stew Ahead!

When I laid my eyes on the title of this slow cooker recipe, it was a shoe-in for Halloween. Few of us ever see a real pirate except for those little buggers that traipse down our street in hopes of filling...

Pomegranates: More Than a Marketing Campaign

Unless you have been living under a rock or have super powers that make you impervious to the ploys of marketing campaigns, you are probably aware that pomegranates are going to help you to live forever....

Be an Adult: Celebrate Halloween

My family didn’t really celebrate Halloween when I was a kid. My mom didn’t like the “evil” association the holiday had with witches, ghosts, and so on. So, instead, we went to our church’s “fall...

There's No Taste Like Home

What does homesickness taste like? Everyone is going to have a different answer. For me it is pretty simple. Homesickness tastes like the crispy edged carnitas from The Tacqueria in Hemet. It tastes...

A Scary Treat That Your Kids Will Eat

I have to admit that writing holiday themed articles is not exactly my forte. In particular, writing about Halloween is especially frightening to me, and not for the reason you might think. Halloween...

Candy Overload

Do you have loads of candy around the house? It’s not even Halloween and the candy is already piling up around here. With an unknown amount of trick-or-treaters coming and various other Halloween activities...

Put Yourself in a Pizza Fix

We all eat pizza. It's good at all hours of the day (people who reach for the cold slice in the morning, you know who you are!), all days of the week. Olives and mushrooms, pepperoni and sausage, cheese...