Home Cooking

Are You a Rachael or a Martha?

Natalie Thomas | Posted 05.24.2012

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"I'm a better baker than cook." That was my go-to party line while dating when asked about my kitchen prowess. I imagined myself a Martha: all cakes and confections. Talk about delusions of grandeur!

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Stay In Tonight! Home Cooked Meals Could Add Years To Your Life

Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Home Kitchens, Cooking for Health, Home Cooking, Diet for Longevity, Healthy Cooking, Cooking Longevity, Diet and Nutrition, Longevity Diet, Cooking at Home, Healthy Living News

For those of you who use your stove for shoe storage, nota bene: all that wasted time with an inactive kitchen could be shortening your lifespan. In f...

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How (And Why) to Keep Home-Cooking Away From Home

Cathy Erway | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Cooking on Travel, Home Cooking, Not Eating Out in New York, Healthy Cooking, Traveling, Cooking While Traveling, Food, Food and Travel, Travel, Food News

The very notion of "vacation," implies giving up everything one is supposed to regularly do. But to those whose favorite hobby is cooking, cooking the unique food of the lands you travel to is the ultimate vacation itself.

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The Recipes We Keep

Julie Tilsner | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Ephemera, Julie Tilsner, Apple Cake Recipe, Recipes, Why We Keep Written Recipes, Bad Home Cooking, Apple Cake, Home Cooking, Dessert Recipes, Dessert, Family Recipes, Apples, Food News

I have old recipes written by hand on index cards by aunts, cousins. I have recipes from my late stepmother. I have recipes sent to me years ago by a good friend from grad school then living in Italy. I have them still, stained, curled, faded ... and still in regular rotation.

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The House That Chicken Wings Built: NYC's Kasadela Izakaya (Video)

Liza de Guia | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: East Village, Googamooga, Izakaya, Wings, Nyc, Skeeternyc, Japanese Food, Fried Chicken, Sake Bar, Food Curated, Liza deGuia, Fried Chicken Wings, Chicken, Video, Sake, Recipes, Restaurants, Azuki Yamashita, Documentary, Food, Home-Cooking, Stanley Pierre, Tebasaki, Kasadela, Food News

The restaurant wasn't doing well financially; they knew they needed something special on the menu to draw in customers. But what could that one thing be?

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Mother's Cure-All: Chicken Noodle Soup and More! (video)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Home Cooking, Home Cooked Meals, Chicken and Dumplings, Homemade, Food Farmer Earth, Chicken Soup, Homemade Food, Soup Recipes, Video, Food News

In honor of mother's everywhere, we visited Chef Lisa Schroeder of Mother's Bistro in Portland, Oregon, where she shows us how to make the quintessential Jewish penicillin: chicken noodle soup.

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A Mom Teaches Her Children the Importance of Food (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Home Cooking, Family Traditions, Local Food, Farmers Market, Teaching Children, Mother's Day, Raising Chickens, Food Memories, Fresh Food, Video, Food News

With her husband overseas serving in the military, Gilbert endeavors to educate and instill an appreciation for fresh, locally produced food with her three young boys.

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Your Mom's Best Recipe

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Home Cooking, Mom's Recipes, Mom's Home Cooking, Recipes by Mom, Mother's Day, Cooking, Slidepollajax, Mothers, KitchenDaily News

With Mother's Day approaching, many of us have mom on the mind. Memories of our mothers are often dominated by food, especially if your mom was a spec...

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7 Mexican Favorites For Cinco De Mayo

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Home Cooking, Tacos, Quarter-Life, Chili, Cinco De Mayo, Food, Mexican, Slidepollajax, Tex-Mex, Recipes, KitchenDaily News

Saturday is Cinco de Mayo! While I can't vouch for the authenticity of any of these dishes, if you're partying this weekend, you'll want to be cooking, too.

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Useful Hacks For Beginner Cooks Who Work During the Day

Quora | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Cooking, Home Cooking, Cookbooks, Food, Grocery Shopping, Cooking Tips, Slidepollajax, KitchenDaily News

Make it a habit to spend 30 minutes on the weekend to sit down and dream up some dishes for the coming week.

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A Cook's Top Five Herbs

Mary Ann Esposito | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Home Cooking, Sage, Basil, Herb Garden, Healthy Cooking, Herbs, Gardening, Vegetable Garden, Rosemary, Food News

If you are as serious a cook as you are a vegetable gardener, then you know that the true flavors of freshly harvested vegetables can get even more palate power by adding fresh herbs.

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Cock-a-Leekie Soup

Laura Kumin | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Soup, Recipes, Soup Recipes, Home Cooking, Cooking-Dinner-Tonight, Cooking, Vegetables, Cock a Leekie Soup, KitchenDaily News

Amazingly addictive, this soup is a great weekend one-dish supper and freezes well. It has a few steps, but the result is well worth the effort.

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7 Ways To Save Money On Home Cooking

Bon Appetit | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Dinner Recipes, Bargain, Saving Money, Shopping, Budget, Cooking How-To, Bon Appetit, Home Cooking, KitchenDaily News

Our week of dinners for under $100 has come to a close. Here are a few tips I gathered in the process of creating the dishes.

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Pucker Up: Great Lemon Dishes

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 04.11.2012

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Lemon is a unifying flavor. Really -- can you name more than like two people who don't like a squeeze on their salmon, some juice in their tea, or a cool, tall glass of lemonade.

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Mario Batali On How To Make Pasta

Food & Wine | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Lasagna, Home Cooking, Pasta, Gnocchi, Cooking How-To, Dairy, Cooking, Mario Batali, Fresh Pasta, Tomato Sauce, Fast, Recipes, KitchenDaily News

The satisfaction derived from making something so delicious out of a pile of flour and eggs is incredible, and the difference between that and store-bought 'fresh' pasta is night and day.

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Egg-On-Top Meals

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Eggs, Home Cooking, Breakfast, Vegetarian, Quarter-Life, Lunch, Slidepollajax, Meals, Easy Dinners, Egg, Recipes, KitchenDaily News

The pantry dinner is for the hardy and the tolerant. The most gourmet among us can hardly be expected to make a dinner just of frozen peas and barley.

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Weeknight Menus That Don't Feel Minimalist

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.23.2012

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With busy week following busy week, sometimes we've got to transcend such whatever's-in-the-fridge minimalism and make slightly more involved dinners.

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It's Easy Being Green! Food For St. Patty's

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Quarter-Life Cooking, St. Patricks Day, Home Cooking, Theme Parties, Recipes, St. Paddy's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Slidepollajax, Green, Food, Irish, KitchenDaily News

There are a lot of ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and drinking yourself under the table is only one of them.

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How To Make Better Salads

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Salad, Home Cooking, Vegetarian, Healthy Cooking, Cooking, Vegetables, Salad Recipes, Salad Toppings, Recipes, KitchenDaily News

In my youth, I discovered that if each bite of salad were paired with a bite of something with a less leafy texture, it was much easier for me not just to get my salad down but to enjoy it.

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The Last PB&J

Julie Tilsner | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Dino Nuggets, Feeding Kids, Parenting Stories, Food Kids Eat, Parents Advice, Parenting Tips, Home Cooking, Foods Kids Like, Parents News

I can take all those little plastic bowls and cups from Ikea out of my cupboards, I guess. It's a whole new parenting enchilada, this 'tween/teen thing.

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9 Herb-Filled Dishes That Feel Like Spring

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Cilantro, Sage, Home Cooking, Flavoring Your Food, Cooking With Herbs, Slidepollajax, Spring, Thyme, Herbs, Rosemary, Parsley, KitchenDaily News

Hooray! The groundhog saw its shadow here in New York two weeks ago. That doesn't exactly mean the early spring radishes or shoots of asparagus are ou...

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The Best Mac & Cheese Ever

Catherine McCord | Posted 04.16.2012

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Is mac & cheese the healthiest dinner choice? Of course not. Would I recommend serving it more than once a week? Probably not. But when made well, perhaps with some veggies thrown in, mac & cheese is certainly a better option than say, a Happy Meal.

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Turkey Pot Pie -- Easy Comfort Food

Laura Kumin | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Home Cooking, Turkey, Cooking How-To, Recipes, Cooking, Easy Recipes, Comfort Food, Pot Pie, Food, Dinner, Family Dinners, Turkey Pot Pie, KitchenDaily News

Recently, my darling spouse reminded me that we still had 2 packages of Thanksgiving turkey in the freezer.

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Why Skipping The Prix-Fixe Is Seriously Romantic

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Home Cooking, Romance, Quarter-Life, Slidepollajax, Valentine's Day, Dessert, Oysters, Mussels, Aphrodisiacs, Recipes, KitchenDaily News

hese classy mains (and one dessert) are fancy meals for two that feel a whole lot more romantic than anything you'll order from a restaurant menu.

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12 Strangers Begin Six-Week Class Toward Healthier Eating

John Harden | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Home Cooking, Food, Cleburne Texas, Cooking Matters, Cleburne-Texas, Health, Fast Food, Video, Personal Health, Healthy Living News

Twelve Cleburne, TX residents decided to start a six-week journey on Thursday night, seeking to learn the basics of healthier cooking by avoiding fast foods.

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