A few months back, we added a chest freezer and a downstairs refrigerator to our home.I wondered, quite honestly, how I鈥檇 fill either. We鈥檇 existed for several years with the lone fridge with its two freezer drawers in our kitchen. I kept both filled; often to the brim with cooked ahead ...
When my mother passed away recently, my sister compared her to Mary Tyler Moore, who had died that same day. I had compared her to Carol Burnett. We were born nine years apart, and by the time I had come along, there were several others in the middle. I guess six kids turn you sarcastically ...
If I invested based on the products I use most, I would own stock in slow cookers, glass canning jars and soup ladles.Anyone who regularly reads this column knows my slow cookers are like the fourth, fifth and sixth children in our home.Because I don鈥檛 always have time to stand at the stove ...
Back to the future is the theme for food trends this year.The macro/micro/mad scientist approach to food is giving way. We are looking to more pure global foods while also reverting to old school cooking and preserving. In checking in with our local food sources, it seems to be pointing in that ...
Our family loves to watch the Food Network show 鈥淲orst Cooks in America.鈥漈he folks who participate are clueless cooks who offer themselves up as such so that they can be tutored by famous chefs. Incentives to participate include a cash prize and learning how not to poison your family when ...
When we think of winter, we envision Currier and Ives, skiing and sledding, a roaring fire and hot chocolate. Fresh produce is usually not in that vision spectrum.With the weather well below freezing, it is not the best time to be covering farm fresh products.The produce we get is usually ...