My favorite panino is prosciutto, gorgonzola, arugula, and fig preserves. My Italian friends taught me the joy of fresh bread spread with fig preserves and topped with fresh pecorino cheese for ...
Love it! Also, my friends have that high chair for their kids. It's so much more attractive than the fug plastic stuff you usually see, and it lets the kid have a place at the table instead of bani...
I really like what Bon Appetit's been doing, both in print and online: selling their content with stunning professional photos. The consistently high-quality photos have a style unique to Bon Appet...
I was a religious recipe-follower for a long time--my personality type is not prone to improvisation, and recipes were a really important crutch as I was learning to cook.
Still, I no...
My great-grandmother's chocolate cake. Apparently my grandmother made hundreds of chocolate cakes, trying to duplicate the taste that my grandfather remembered from childhood.
One yea...
First time I saw a w/d in a kitchen at an open house I thought it was the weirdest thing ever. The place I wound up buying had no w/d at all, though, and a few years later I found myself eyeballing...
I love this book! I bought it to help ease my transition from Northern to Southern California. It not only made me excited for the culinary possibilities of my new home, but it has also encouraged ...
I copy the recipe from the magazine site and paste it into my recipe database (PDACookbook Plus, if you're curious--it syncs with a handheld or smartphone), tagging it "to try" so I don't forget th...
I have a database of recipes so that they're searchable by ingredient and so I can collect recipes I might like to try without adding to my substantial paper clutter.
I love handwritte...
The inexpensive 6.5-qt ChefMate that Cooks Illustrated praised is back in stock at Target for $60, and Walmart has an identical (though green) one under the Tramontina brand for $40. Walmart's our ...
My mom always told me that fund-raiser cookbooks were the best, because they reflect what real home cooks make, and all the recipes are of the "tried-and-true" variety. I still love flipping throug...
Our last two weeks came completely unglued, with unplanned work projects, unexpected household disasters, and unscheduled family visitors. So we scrapped our plans for making an involved dinner tog...
This Christmas I unwrapped three new cookbooks even though I already have several that I haven't even cooked from yet. So my pledge is to cook every Sunday dinner from one of my lesser-used cookboo...
For anyone hesitant to embrace a single-function kitchen tool, I highly recommend the West Bend Versatility cooker. It's an oval nonstick pan on a flat slow-cooker base. The pan can also go on your...
(Wow, lots of competition for this one!)
A beef or a lamb stew, preferably with Provencal ingredients/seasoning. Eaten on its own or serve over soft polenta.
Maybe I'm a softie, but I hand out candy to everyone who comes to my door, no matter how old they are or how much effort they put into the costume. It's just a few pennies worth of candy, and it's ...
Palmolive makes a Lavender and Ylang-ylang soap that I started using after my store stopped carrying the Method line. The Palmolive smells better than Method, and its deep purple color looks attrac...
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My favorite panino is prosciutto, gorgonzola, arugula, and fig preserves. My Italian friends taught me the joy of fresh bread spread with fig preserves and topped with fresh pecorino cheese for ...
Love it! Also, my friends have that high chair for their kids. It's so much more attractive than the fug plastic stuff you usually see, and it lets the kid have a place at the table instead of bani...
I really like what Bon Appetit's been doing, both in print and online: selling their content with stunning professional photos. The consistently high-quality photos have a style unique to Bon Appet...
I was a religious recipe-follower for a long time--my personality type is not prone to improvisation, and recipes were a really important crutch as I was learning to cook. Still, I no...
My great-grandmother's chocolate cake. Apparently my grandmother made hundreds of chocolate cakes, trying to duplicate the taste that my grandfather remembered from childhood. One yea...
First time I saw a w/d in a kitchen at an open house I thought it was the weirdest thing ever. The place I wound up buying had no w/d at all, though, and a few years later I found myself eyeballing...
I love this book! I bought it to help ease my transition from Northern to Southern California. It not only made me excited for the culinary possibilities of my new home, but it has also encouraged ...
I copy the recipe from the magazine site and paste it into my recipe database (PDACookbook Plus, if you're curious--it syncs with a handheld or smartphone), tagging it "to try" so I don't forget th...
I have a database of recipes so that they're searchable by ingredient and so I can collect recipes I might like to try without adding to my substantial paper clutter. I love handwritte...
The inexpensive 6.5-qt ChefMate that Cooks Illustrated praised is back in stock at Target for $60, and Walmart has an identical (though green) one under the Tramontina brand for $40. Walmart's our ...
My mom always told me that fund-raiser cookbooks were the best, because they reflect what real home cooks make, and all the recipes are of the "tried-and-true" variety. I still love flipping throug...
Our last two weeks came completely unglued, with unplanned work projects, unexpected household disasters, and unscheduled family visitors. So we scrapped our plans for making an involved dinner tog...
This Christmas I unwrapped three new cookbooks even though I already have several that I haven't even cooked from yet. So my pledge is to cook every Sunday dinner from one of my lesser-used cookboo...
The grill pan! I work from home and miss the gourmet panini I used to get at a cafe next door to my office.
For anyone hesitant to embrace a single-function kitchen tool, I highly recommend the West Bend Versatility cooker. It's an oval nonstick pan on a flat slow-cooker base. The pan can also go on your...
I have a recipe for vegetable soup with corn dumplings that is so delicious--how happy I'd be to whip up a big batch in that Calphalon pot!
(Wow, lots of competition for this one!) A beef or a lamb stew, preferably with Provencal ingredients/seasoning. Eaten on its own or serve over soft polenta.
Maybe I'm a softie, but I hand out candy to everyone who comes to my door, no matter how old they are or how much effort they put into the costume. It's just a few pennies worth of candy, and it's ...
Palmolive makes a Lavender and Ylang-ylang soap that I started using after my store stopped carrying the Method line. The Palmolive smells better than Method, and its deep purple color looks attrac...