Think about this: You've never seen a fine dining restaurant serve Beer Can Chicken, have you? That's because real chefs know it is not the best way to roast a chicken.

Restaurant meals taste good and eating out sure is convenient. But some of the dishes we've come to love are costing our waistlines big-time.

Something about summer makes us want to add tons of fish, preferably freshly caught, to our diets. But then comes the question: how to cook?

Tortillas are very handy to have around, whether it's breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert, whether you are alone or feeding a family. And the whole g...

Here are seven reasons to give chicken breasts a chance -- 7 ways to turn a blank slate into a wonderful meal.

Eggs are healthy, cheap, and quick-cooking. They can be prepared in any number of ways: poached, scrambled, fried, frittata-ed, or any combination of the above.

Ramps, like other onions, are an underground bulb with long, tall green grasslike stalks. Ramps are much smaller than leeks, more like scallions, but the leaves are flatter.

I used to have a love-hate relationship with boneless, skinless chicken breast. On the love side, it's a lean, healthy protein but, its flavor is so mild and it always seemed to be dried out from being overcooked.

These crisp, peppery roots thrive in springtime and offer a welcome flash of color to salads, sandwiches and grains.

Here are eight dinners with five ingredients or less -- most of them quick, all of them deeply satisfying.

With its delicate, creamy texture and mild sweetness, ricotta is a wonderfully versatile ingredient. It tastes luxurious on its own, but it can also lend richness to pastas and a grounded rustic quality to desserts.

There aren't many indigenous local D.C. dishes, but there is one concoction the locals proudly claim as their own: Mumbo Sauce.

From a spiced rum-spiked beer cocktail to pillowy, stout-flled whoopie pies, here are five delicious recipes sure to have Irish eyes smiling.

Surprisingly, corned beef and cabbage is not an Irish tradition. Corned pork and cabbage is more common in the Emerald Isles.

There's something beautiful about a pan of baked pasta. It's hot. It's cheesy. And it has that crusty cap crowning the top of it, the accessory that mere bowls of pasta can't match.

I'm going to use some time-saving shortcuts to get a healthy dinner on the table for my family and get me a few extra minutes at the end of the day.

There's always something about breakfast for dinner that feels like a treat. And after a long day, a big plate of french toast is all that we need.