Christine Gable

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


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The Dessert We Love to Hate
Let’s play Jeopardy: Kids love it. For over 150 years, this fruit-based food has been dressed up (and down) with a minimum of time and effort. Did you say, “What is JELL-O?” Good for...


Mini Pies Are Just More Fun
Now that summer’s in full swing, the kids are busy—and that means that depending upon what they’re engaged in, I don’t regularly have a kitchen helper. These warm sunny days find them out and...


Life With Dishwasher
Our life has entered the modern era. Yep, our kitchen now has a dishwasher. What, you say? A food writer and columnist whose kitchen was missing that all-important appliance? Yep, ‘tis true. After...


Picnic In Red, White, & Blue
Amidst the everyday and the same old, same old calendar days come traditional holidays and rituals. I’ve noted how even a small celebration or recognition can shake up the ol' getting-to-be-boring routine,...


Bread, Bread, and More Bread
As many of you probably know, some of the best times the kids and I have had in the kitchen together are spontaneous. Spur of the moment happenings that could not have been planned in any way, shape or...


Berries For Sale
Strawberry season is here. And it hit suddenly. It just so happened that my daughter and I were out to accomplish some everyday errands when we saw the sight that turned our day around: red, ripe berries...


Let's Spin--Some Salad, That Is
This may surprise you, but I’m not a gadget person. Especially not a kitchen gadget person. Oh, I have a food processor, a blender—and you already know how we love that toaster oven—but I find that...


Roasted & Toasted: Good Campfire Grub
It is thought that sticks were the first cooking tools—and that roasted woolly mammoth might have once been a delicacy of our ancestors who lived in caves. Whether your cooking stick is pre-made and...


A Plan For Easy Summer Eating
Summer’s almost here and school’s almost out—do you feel the rush of the time crunch as much as I do? It seems like it was just a few short weeks ago that I was putting winter scarves and hats away...


The Kitchen Remodel Reality Check
As I write this, our kitchen is being re-modeled. In other words: the house is a mess. The kitchen is ripped apart. And we’re eating off paper plates with no kitchen sink. Yeah, I knew it was coming....


Aprons, Times Two
Sometimes it’s the simple things that make the most impact. Take the aprons that I ordered with a gift card recently. Now, mind you, I’ve never worn an apron to cook, much less gotten coordinating...


The Teen Gourmet: Ordinary Fare With Flair
Time for the Wednesday Teen Gourmet again. The neat thing about this menu is that I’m the one who gets to decide what the teenage chef is going to be cooking. Just in time for Mother’s Day too. Not...


You Really Gotta Root For Root Beer
It was something my son had mentioned to me in passing several times—several too many times. It was something that I had put off out of remembrance of its time-intensive and and messy manner, in the...


The Present: Chocolate Cupcakes
One important thing I’ve learned about when one of my kids expresses an interest in baking or cooking: Go with it. The trick to building their long-term interest and supporting their enthusiasm is...


Teens and the Toaster Oven
It all started with a garage sale find—a mini-toaster oven for only 50 cents. Remembering days of late evening snacks of French fries and toasted cheese melts, we bought the item and parked this little...


The Best Stir-Fry Ever
What’s not to love about a stir-fry for dinner? 1. It’s quick. 2. It’s easy. 3. It’s healthy. But rely on it too many nights and it’s … well, boring. While we often fall back on...