If there's one thing you don't need, it's to leave too many dishes to the last minute on Thanksgiving. For nearly a dozen years now, I've taken a very organized approach to the holiday, starting my cooking a few days in advance. Making gravy at the...

Thomas Wolfe was right when he wrote that "you can never go home again" and that's just as true when applied to the attempt to return to a culinary phase.  The seventies seemed to be dominated by the ubiquitous Cornish hen. Cornish hens cropped up at...

I confess. I'm a skeptic. Despite having made and loved several recipes from Devin Alexander's cookbook--The Most Decadent Diet Ever--I wasn't convinced that a vodka cream sauce that contained just 111 calories in a half cup could really be "decadent."...

This post is a testament to humanity's triumph over technology. Something happened to my laptop today in the form of an unwanted update which wiped out my favorite's folder and made it almost as difficult to word process this post as it would have been...

This week's theme over at I Heart Cooking Clubs is "man food." While that might sound a bit sexist, I think the intention was to prepare something hearty or filling, though in our house "man food" can run the gamut from chips and dip to something...