CookShelfHolidays & 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…
With the demise of the Twinkie, we thought we'd refocus on a comfort sweetie that will never go out of style or production - the homemade brownie. And the perfect brownie has to have a crunchy top - it makes the fudgy…
We'll admit that we haven't eaten a Twinkie or Ding Dong in far more years than is possible, but the fact that these iconic U.S. lunch box treats will no longer be available is worthy of notice. Due to a variety of…
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…
Looking for a quick laugh? Over at BuzzFeed Food, they've collected The Most Hilarious Food Network Recipes of All Time. And we have to say, these are pretty priceless. Here are a few classic examples: Robin Miller's…
Over at The New York Times Dwight Garnier has a fun blog item, Peanut Butter Takes On an Unlikely Best Friend. In it, he confesses to a love of peanut butter and pickle sandwiches (and he's obviously not pregnant). As…
Where would we be without pizza? Without question, life would be emptier. But just because we eat so much of it (according to Yahoo, the annual per capita pizza consumption in the USA is 23 pounds) that doesn't mean we…
Cooking Light is celebrating its 25th anniversary by publishing, both in print and online, its best 25 recipes. As they say, "25 years, 25 dishes. We're going back in time to count down our best of the best, from 2011…
Holidays & Celebrations Recipes
Over at Gourmet Live they're getting in the Halloween spirit and we were happy to see these little potato ghosts come front and center. They first appeared in the 90's and due to both how easy they were to make and…
Sandwiches are certainly the ultimate in convenience food. Indeed, the very story of their invention - the Earl of Sandwich wanting to have a convenient way to eat his bread and meat so he wouldn't have to leave the…
Recipes calling for brown sugar are surprisingly ubiquitous. Cookie season is fast approaching in the Northern hemisphere (of course, for many of us, it's always here), and so many great cookie recipes seem to call for…
