Slow cookers
OK, I came late to the game when it comes to slow cookers. As a person who's home and in the kitchen most of the time anyway, I didn't need a device that could do the cooking by itself for hours and hours. I was the…
Susie
Soup Books
Let me make it clear: I'm not well suited to living in New England. I take after my mom, who grew up in a subtropical part of China - I flinch when the frost comes creeping up the windows. While my daughter runs around…
Holiday Time
The thing about the holidays is that we expect to cook more than any other time of year while having less time to do it. Every year about this time, I think: Oh no, here comes the turkey again. My brain starts…
Favorite cookbooks
Every so often, people ask me "What's your favorite cookbook?" Usually, I wince. Then I make some kind of smart-alecky answer like, "Oh, that's like asking which one's your favorite child? or your favorite music?" These…
Dinner Ninja
Every once in a while, you suddenly realize that you're richer than you thought. Maybe you find a twenty in your sock drawer, or you remember that you have leftover paella in your fridge and no one else knows about it!…