Christine Gable

Specialty: Slow Cooker/Crockpot, Kids' Cuisine
Education: Millersville University, Vermont College
Lives: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania


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The Power of Love--Love of Lasagna!
Lasagna is one of those dishes that everyone in our family loves—but doesn’t love to make. Why is it that lasagna just seems to take forever to finish! Boiling the noodles, browning the beef, layering...


Hello Savvy Slow Cookers!
If I can make a meal in 20 minutes or less, I’m one happy mama. Have me walkin’ in the door at the end of the day to a house filled with delectable dinner aromas and I’ve just about died and gone...


Kids Love It: Fast 'n Easy Whipped Cream
Several months ago we had a surprise leftover: cans and cans of whipped cream—those dessert partials that generous friends bring to picnics and parties to share but end up not getting used. Gosh,...


Lotta Chocolate Love
We just love chocolate around here. In fact I’ve been seriously considering buying more than one or two packs of chocolate chips at a time. For it seems like whenever I need to bake a batch of cookies...


The Extreme Teens Taste Test
Just before school started, my son had a good friend over—they’ve been friends for about ten years now, and it never fails that, even if it’s been awhile since they’ve spent time together, they...


Dr. Phil Doesn't Like Bisquick?
What can I say? That yellow box gives me an almost unexplainable feeling of comfort. Yeah, it’s just nice seeing it on the pantry shelf, knowing that it’s there to help out in a pinch. Knowing it’ll...


Hey, Taste-Test This: Olive Oil
Seems each summer I get a brainy idea to do some taste testing. Remember when we did the hot dog taste tests the other year? All I had to do was buy a whole bunch of different kinds and then coordinate...


Did You Celebrate National Junk Food Day?
Junk food. What do those two words bring to mind? How ‘bout potato chips, pizza, Pop Tarts and doughnuts? Funnel cakes, Twinkies, and Tastykakes? Cheese puffs, candy bars and double-stuff Oreos?...


Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey
Keeping chickens is not something I ever thought we would do. Ever. Isn’t life funny like that sometimes—especially when you have kids. We end up doing, saying and getting involved in things that...


The Gulps: Is This Your Family?
Get this: A family sets off on a vacation in their motor home—they fill it with all sorts of junk food that they love (and can’t imagine living without!). It’s not long before the motor home breaks...


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...


Seed Savers: Are You One?
Heirloom seeds. Hmmm, sounds like something that’s been discovered in my grandmother’s attic. I can just envision it: An avid gardener, she picked the seed heads off her favorites at the end of the...


Tea, Anyone?
While here in America we are quite partial to the coffee break, taking some down time to sit and appreciate the finer things in life certainly has a lot going for it. In other words: afternoon tea. That’s...


Nix the Picky Eaters
As you may know by now, one of the delightful things that I did on a recent press trip to the Holland, Michigan area was to visit a cooking school: the Artisan Cooking School in Grand Haven. Having generously...


Learning to Make Pasta
Pasta. It's one of my favorite foods. Convenient, quick cooking and in shapes and forms to meet almost any appetite (and recipe), pasta is one smart go-to solution when I'm in a mealtime crunch. I usually...


Farmer's Markets: Where's Yours?
I’m up early, I’ve had my coffee and I’m perusing the fine selection. Fresh lettuce, spinach and kale. Just-picked carrots, tomatoes and raspberries. Homemade muffins, bagels and raw honey....