Cooking
How Often Do You Cook Dinner at Home?
Assuming you're not making Paula Deen recipes every night, cooking at home is a great way to eat healthy, better understand your calorie intake, and control your portion sizes. So in honor of this week's Get Fit For 2010 challenge to upload a healthy recipe, tell me: how often do you enjoy a home-cooked dinner?
How Often Do You Cook Dinner at Home?
Have You Ever Regretted Making a Recipe?
Last Wednesday, when I was making the food for an Apples to Apples theme party, I couldn't help but ask myself, "Whose stupid idea was it to plan an entire menu of apple dishes?" The idea was mine, of course. It was a great idea in theory, but I didn't realize that I would have to peel, slice, core, and chop 18 apples.
Simple Tip: Use Olive Oil to Reduce Garlic's Stickiness
Have you ever noticed how sticky garlic is? When you're peeling it, it sticks to your fingers, and when mincing, it sticks to the cutting board and knife. For years I've been annoyed by it, but recently I discovered an easy way to reduce garlic's stickiness.
Would You Rather Cook or Wash Dishes?
Would You Rather Cook or Wash Dishes?
Cook
Wash dishes
Yummy Links: From Gail Simmons to Michael Pollan
- Gail Simmons's guide to packing. — Travel + Leisure
- An inside look at New York City's illegal beekeepers. — Chow
- Does it really matter if you forget an ingredient?
Cooking in Costa Rica
While I thoroughly enjoyed the cuisine of Costa Rica, one of my favorite parts of the trip was cooking! The condo that we stayed in had an amazing kitchen, and since cooking has always relaxed me, I made dinner practically every night. And breakfast every morning.
Wild Game: Is Cooking a Turn On?
After the rise of the celebrity chef, men fell into society's cooking line by taking up the hobby like it's snowboarding. Now a magazine for men, called Beef, has launched in Germany, solidifying cooking's place as a socially acceptable masculine hobby. We could thank Top Chef or the manly meat trend (brining, smoking, foraging), and that would probably be accurate.
Burning Question: How Come Recipes Call For Oil and Butter?
When chef Cal Stamenov showed us how to make the perfect scallop at Chefs' Holidays, I learned a lot about different types of mollusks and the key to preparing them. But the best part of the demo was chef Cal's answer to a long-standing burning question of mine. Why is it that recipes often call for both olive oil and butter?
Have You Started Cooking For Thanksgiving Yet?
Have You Started Cooking For Thanksgiving Yet?
Of course, it's tomorrow!
Nope, not yet.
Do You Enjoy Music During Your Thanksgiving Meal?
Do You Enjoy Music During Your Thanksgiving Meal?
Yes
No
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