Gift Guide

One of my favorite hors d’oeuvre to make when I have company is gougères:  those airy, cheesy puffs that melt in your mouth. The hardest thing about gougères is dealing with...

You see, there was this one brownie recipe… That’s how it all got started. As I have mentioned before, I don’t bake much, but when I ran into a recipe for Fudgey, Spicy...

The natural beauty of olive wood tools just make you feel good using them in the kitchen--it’s a back-to-nature kind of thing. And they’re also good for your pots and pans and...

In a couple of the other write-ups, we talk about the fact that mandolines are sharp: really sharp.  That’s a good thing and a bad thing (well, not really bad, just, you...

There are so many dishes that call for melting butter in a pan, or rubbing butter in a baking dish or simply buttering some warm bread, waffles, pancakes, corn or... And our...

So we’ve always been cautioned about not putting mushrooms under running water...they soak it up like crazy and then don’t really brown nicely because they’re water logged....

Ramekins can be truly useful tools in your kitchen, except that (a) capacity may vary, (b) they break easily, because they’re made of china, (c) the inside angles make them...

Chain mail isn’t just for battles anymore (at least not the kind on horseback)! Clean-up is the dirty little downside of cooking; and some clean-up jobs are worse than...

Ice cream doesn’t have a season. We love it just as much in the winter, as we do during the summer. And whether it’s homemade or from the freezer of your local store, the...

Don’t you just hate it when your food sticks to the grill? We used to struggle with that, and sometimes leave chunks of food behind on the grill. That’s unfortunate on a...