Hi! I’m Isabelle, a rookie cook who wants to learn more about cooking in order to add variety to my table and also to eat better and healthier. Each week, I plan to share with you my experiences in learning how to cook, be it a new technique, a new tool, a new recipe or […]
Nowadays, people are trying to eat healthier than they have before. Just look at how the menu at McDonald’s changed over the past few years to fit that shift in eating behavior. If you had told the owner of McDonald’s 10 years ago that in 2009 the restaurant chain would be serving salads, he would […]
Folks, I want to alert you to a conspiracy to fatten every single American who goes out to eat. We’re not talking about aliens who are slowly taking over by injecting small amounts of cellulite into us every night; that’s just a known fact that’s been on the cover of The Sun. What we’re talking […]
Let me introduce myself. My name is Richard Keller and, as of January 17th, I have not had a McDonald’s burger or fry in two years. Shocking, I know! Especially since you can’t throw a chicken nugget out the car window without striking a set of golden arches. Nevertheless, it’s true. It’s also a bit […]
With Christmas comes cookbooks, at least in our family. My brother gave me one that I’d never heard of: Super Natural Cooking: Five Ways To Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into Your Cooking by Heidi Swanson. He assured me it was not about cooking for ghosts or demons, so I cracked it open the other […]
This week we’re going to make bagels — from scratch! I will repeat the recipe here, but if you would like detailed instructions on how to make dough from scratch, please see the first post I did for this column. Look for the recipe after the jump. I want to start by saying that I […]
OK, now this makes sense. The other day we had New England Clam Chowder Day, which seems like more of a summer food holiday than a winter one (though I guess that depends on what part of the country you live in), but National Soup Month in January is a no-brainer. As we’ve learned from […]
About a month ago I decided to try switching from coffee to tea. There are great benefits from drinking tea, especially green and white teas. With coffee, not so much. Some people say they don’t want to give up drinking coffee because it helps keep them regular. That’s just an excuse to keep drinking it. […]
There’s big trouble at our house — big with a capital B — and that stands for Banana. Oh, you’d think a bowl full of ripe bananas would be a good thing (and we’ll get to that), but lately, there’s some cause for concern — in the center of our kitchen island is a huge […]
As I’ve mentioned before, the kitchen in my apartment is TINY. Tiny enough that pack rat me must be ruthless about the kitchen gadgets I keep around taking up space. So far, I have managed to forgo a blender, a Cuisinart, a pasta machine and many other handy machines. I don’t think I would use […]