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How to care for your wood cutting board so it lasts a lifetime

It’s easy to take for granted things that are always there for you. As much as this applies to the important people in your life, what I’m talking about here is in the kitchen – the items yo...

DATE: Mar 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

Give lasagna a boost of bold flavors with hot Italian sausage and tangy goat cheese

I can’t think of any good reasons I hadn’t been making lasagna with regularity, until recently, that is. Ingredients I like? Check. Make-ahead potential? Check. Feed a crowd? Check. Lots of ...

DATE: Mar 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

Help your dough rise to the occasion during the winter

I continue to develop my skills as a fairly new sourdough baker, and one of those is how to find success in winter. Whether you’re making sourdough bread or loaves made with commercial dry y...

DATE: Feb 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

Cooking for one: 6 tips to keep things practical, flexible and fun

Many of us have been spending more time at home over the past 10 months, and a lot more of that time has been spent alone. With the coronavirus pandemic cutting off access to friends and soc...

DATE: Jan 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

How to substitute for alcohol in cooking and baking

There are a number of reasons alcohol is off-limits for some people when cooking or baking, such as an allergy or an inability to use it when preparing food for children or those who might b...

DATE: Jan 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

Why you’ll always find sweetened condensed milk in my kitchen

A number of kitchen staples have helped me get through the last almost 10 months of working and parenting at home. They include quesadillas (with black beans from my Instant Pot), sourdough ...

DATE: Jan 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Food

12 holiday cookie recipes to end the year on a sweeter note

Like just about everything else in this tumultuous year, baking in 2020 has felt like no other. From ingredient shortages and reduced grocery runs to the crushing, simultaneous we...

DATE: Dec 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Allium essentials

Onions, shallots, scallions and leeks are mostly interchangeable in recipes. Here’s how to use what you have.

DATE: Dec 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

A guide to lentils: How to choose and use the tiny protein-packed powerhouses

Lentils don’t always have the most exciting reputation. People tend to associate the tiny pulse with dark brown, mushy and bland soups, says cookbook author Crescent Dragonwagon. ...

DATE: Nov 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

These caramel apples are all treat, no tricks

When you’ve been with someone as long as my husband and I have, you end up with a lot of running jokes. One of ours is how I always ogle the caramel apples in specialty shops and then never ...

DATE: Oct 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Sourdough tips and resources from a former skeptic

When the sourdough craze arrived in the spring at the start of our pandemic life at home, said sourdough was not for me, for now. At a time of unprecedented challenge – personally, professio...

DATE: Oct 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Sugar adds more than sweetness to baked goods. Here’s what to know before you cut it.

In basically every baking recipe that uses it, sugar is doing so much more than providing sweetness. It’s an important component of the carefully designed chemical reactions taking place in ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food