CookShelfHolidays & Celebrations Recipes
During this heavy baking season, here are ways to tell if the baking powder and baking soda you're using are still healthy and active: For baking powder, stir 1/4 teaspoon into 1/2 cup of very hot water. The powder will…
It's that time of year when the gift lists are prepared and the inevitable "What do you want…?" questions start. If you have friends or family members who love to cook from great recipes - consider giving them an Eat…
Food Online Holidays & Celebrations Recipes
Peppermint is a popular holiday flavor - where would we be without candy canes? And spearmint can also be a popular candy flavor - think gum. Most of us would regard these two flavors as quite different, yet most…
Antipasto Holidays & Celebrations
Here's a quick tip from America's Test Kitchen, via the Kitchn, that should come in particularly useful during this period of intense cookie baking. When a recipe calls for softened butter, and we've forgotten to leave…
Since we ran a Black Friday gift article with ideas from Michael Ruhlman and others last week, it's only appropriate that we acknowledge Cyber Monday - the time that everyone goes online to shop. Of course, now it's…
Here in the United States, there is a tradition that the day after Thanksgiving is the best day to go shopping. On "Black Friday" (so-called because for many retailers it's when they finally go black - i.e. earn a…
Holidays & Celebrations Recipes
We're sure all our non-U.S. members are getting a little tired of our Thanksgiving blogs, but we promise this is the last one - it's hard to overlook the one holiday truly devoted to eating. And for our final blog, what…
Food Online Holidays & Celebrations
Now that a Turducken has become almost mainstream (we even wrote a serious blog about it), we're very pleased that Serious Eats has taken up the gauntlet of producing a new, outlandish Thanksgiving treat - and not just…
Antipasto Holidays & Celebrations
In their article, Six tablet apps for making the perfect Thanksgiving dinner, TechHive has some great apps for iPads and other tablets that are applicable not only for Thanksgiving but for all holidays and even everyday…
Holidays & Celebrations Recipes
It seems that every day is a "national" day (or week or month) for some sort of food item. It's easy to ignore most of them, but every now and then a "national day" comes along that should be celebrated. We feel that…
Holidays & Celebrations Recipes
Fifteen or so years ago, brining - soaking a turkey in a salty water solution for 24 hours - was introduced as the best way to insure a moist, flavorful turkey. But brining has now come under assault. It always was a…
Over the past several years, Kenji Alt, the science guru at Serious Eats, has tackled the intriguing problem of how to cook the perfect turducken. In The Food Lab: How to Make the Perfect Turducken, he gives us the…
