The other day, I decided I would like to grill a nice steak and enjoy a baked potato and salad on the side. Not being a huge red meat eater, I headed off to the local grocery store in search of the perfect steak. To my surpise, I felt as if I was in a ...
Raki (Arabic word meaning sweat) is Turkey’s unofficial national drink. The literal meaning could also be referred to the way that the drink is made during distillation or when one drinks too much, one sweats. It is a non-sweet anise flavored drink that has been twice distilled much like Greek Tsipouro or Spanish Orujo. It ...
Decades before one could just “google” a recipe or log onto Epicurious.com, there were church cookbooks. They were a regular fundraising effort for many years, enough so that there was an entire publishing niche for the genre – Midwestern companies that specialized in knitting the pages together with that functional black plastic binding. Committees of ...
The holiday season can be a very busy and hectic time, even more so if you’re having to shop for a lot of people and plan for family gatherings. Luckily there are a lot of useful apps available on the iPhone that can help make all the goings-on of the holidays much easier and more ...
You’ve seen the commercials: Beautiful models lounging by the pool, telling you how they lost weight with a prepackaged meal plan. What they don’t tell you is the health dangers associated with these diet foods. No matter what plan you’re thinking of using, if you get on it, you may be in for more health ...
Meyer lemon trees, one of the most hardy of citrus trees and a favorite backyard fruit tree produce fruit year-round. Unless potted or grafted to dwarf rootstock, expect a Meyer lemon to grow up to fifteen feet tall. Meyers work well in pots, which also allows them to be grown in areas otherwise too cold ...
I love soup in the winter time. Not much beats coming in from shoveling the snow and being greeted with a steaming hot bowl of soup. My problem is that my winters are painfully busy. Between coaching basketball and keeping up with daily work, I find it difficult to find the time to make a ...
The Cook-At-Home Revolution has spawned a number of great websites for people who want to supplement their cooking skills, and here is a list of what I consider to be the best cooking websites for foodies. For anyone who is unfamiliar with this term, a foodie is, according to Wikipedia, anyone who is interested in ...
