Category: Techniques and Tips
Simplify Your Kitchen: Why You Need Go-To Recipes
Do you have go-to recipes? I do. It’s such a great simplifying thing to have tried and true recipes that you know will come out well every time. Go-to recipes are so simple that you can practically make them without thinking and so fast that they don’t really make a big time impact on your [...]
Hash Browns, Eggs and Your Set by Calphalon
Have you ever wished you could customize a cookware set for the way you love to cook? Well now you can, with Your Set by Calphalon. I was lucky enough to receive two incredibly versatile pieces, and I used them for some of my favorite dishes. See how I used the AccuCore Stainless Steel 3-quart [...]
Cinnamon-Sugar Coffee Cake, A Vintage Recipe
Coffee cake is one of those things. It’s comforting and familiar and perfect for breakfast. This one, made from a recipe from the 1930s, has a dense crumb and an irresistible buttery cinnamon sugar topping. No, it’s not that impossibly fluffy and almost-dessert-sweet coffee cake from the grocery store. But it doesn’t want to be. [...]
Marzetti Otria Greek Yogurt Spinach Artichoke Dip (And Making an Easy, Frugal Veggie Platter)
I was one of the bloggers selected by T. Marzetti Company and Clever Girls Collective to host a Marzetti Otria Greek Yogurt Veggie Dip review. They provided me with product to test and compensation for my time. However, my opinions are entirely my own. Greek yogurt in a dip? Um … That’s exactly what I [...]
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread in a Jar
A few weeks ago, Will spied a lone very ripe (ahem, brown) banana on our kitchen counter and declared that I should make banana bread. He adores banana bread. And bananas, for that matter. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to whip up a batch then. Today I finally got around to baking some … in [...]
Bobby Flay on Cooking at Home, Sandwiches and More
Yesterday, I woke up in New York to a beautiful blue sky and a day filled with fabulous adventure … and sandwiches. Do you like sandwiches? I do. But not plain, slapped together ones. They need to be built with precision and care. They need to be well-thought out and considered. So, when the PR [...]
Searching for the Perfect Homemade Pasta Recipe: Part 1
If there was just one carb to darken my doorway for the rest of eternity, it would be pasta. My kids request it nightly. I like it. My husband likes it. And there are endless ways to flavor and dress it. As far as versatile ingredients go, pasta is right up there. Typically, we eat [...]
On Crafting a Recipe
Recipe creating is a hard process. It starts with an idea. Then it becomes an attempt at a recipe. Then it must be tested and retested and tweaked until it’s perfect. And sometimes, all the efforts in the world can’t make it right. This sandwich was fabulous on the day that this photo was taken, [...]
Deboning the Bones
The first time I roasted asparagus, the browned bits at the tips made my heart thump. Surely, it must be ruined, I thought. Heck, I almost didn’t serve it … what a mistake that would have been. As much as I love to cook, some aspects of cooking frighten me. It’s a classic case of [...]
Intuition in Cooking
One of my greatest fears in cooking, before I knew how to cook, was making something incorrectly. What if roasting a beet would make it poisonous? (It won’t.) What if I accidentally failed to cook that chicken for long enough? (A greater fear should have been overcooking.) If I was unfamiliar with an ingredient, I [...]
