I always thought of it as a chemical on packaged food ingredient lists and not something you'd find in a regular kitchen, but a few episodes ago on Top Chef someone used it, I think it was Michael ...

many of the things I like from them, like cakelet pans and such, get phased through pretty quickly, so I know if I can wait a couple of months it'll be a decent price when they push it to clearance.

I put them in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for breakfast.

"the roasting arm is detachable" - as the article says. Doesn't make it cheaper or less ridiculous, but it does mean that you can store it just as easily as any other roaster, and presumably you c...

My favorite is Andrea Meyers' Black Bean Soup with 5 Peppers and Ham, all day in the crockpot, just had it for dinner last night. Keeps great in the freezer. Can be made vegan too.

I love apple butter, on a biscuit and on an english muffin would be my favorites. I don't know if this is just a southern thing, but cooking apple butter was a big boy scouts/church fundraiser whe...

the vendors in my neighborhood in Brooklyn use hand-held metal ice shavers and an ice block. I googled "hand ice shaver" and found a bunch for $10-$20.

dry-cured black olives with herbes de Provence was my introduction. Really amazing. Available at a lot of olive bars.

I've used a terracotta thing with great success but my new plan is to just make brown sugar as needed using white sugar and molasses, since that's all that most modern brown sugar is. I first saw ...

My parents found out about Luzianne at a restaurant, and now it's my addiction. I load up when I'm in Virginia and now I've got my yankee husband addicted too. My family's seafood stuffed mushroom...

I saw on his website that some commenters had just used chicken parts rather than a whole chicken. if I were to just use thighs, how long do you suppose I should cook it? Might make for an easy, f...

www.eightoclockranch.com/ is in upstate New York, has great prices, humane treatment, amazingly delicious meat. They even have a CSA program. I've been using them for a little over a year now.

On Martha Stewart today she sort of combined the method by boogaloobaby and the one in the video. She scored the skin into quarters, leading out from top. Then she split it from the top, broke it...

I'm going really easy. I'm making chocolate chip cookies with reese's cups in them. My mom used to make them for every bake sale when I was a kid. I thought it'd be a good cookie plus candy trea...

My husband and I went with some friends last weekend. I was surprised to find how different the red delicious apples are off the trees compared to the frightening ones in grocery stores. I made a...

It took me a long time to learn that potato pancakes were something other than leftover mashed potatoes stretched with some flour and fried.

Monkey, who we suspect is a Bengal, likes to sleep in my closet, he will jump onto the shelves and if they're full he'll grab onto something, toss it out of the closet, and keep going until there's...

It's the "in processed foods" thing that I think is really overlooked in the ads. Sure, hfcs isn't so different from white sugar, you should use both in moderation, but hfcs are in so many foods t...

I like a good strong irish breakfast tea with a good deal of milk, sweetened with brown sugar.

I'm not sure what frugality has to do with philanthropy. Sounds like a better plan for me than ordering take out as much as I do. I wish there was something like this in New York City.