
Carrie in the Kitchen: Pumpkin and White Bean Pasta with Fried Sage Leaves
Carrie in the Kitchen is a new monthly column by our friend Carrie Havranek who runs The Dharma Kitchen. Each month, she'll take on the challenge of creating a dish out of a few things left over in her pantry in an effort to show how to get creative in the...

How To Cook Chicken Legs: The Sweet, The Spicy, The Cheap
How To Cook Chicken Legs I have already said that I think chicken breasts are the tofu of the meat world. There is lots you can do to make them tasty, but they just are not on the top of the list of great eats, ok eats sure, but great, no. A few steps up on the list...

Once We Make Buttermilk What Do We do With It?
To Make Buttermilk is Easy - Then What? Make Buttermilk and Make Happiness. Buttermilk is one of those simple life pleasures from which so much deliciousness can be gained. As discussed earlier, it is fairly simple to make buttermilk. Simply put, soured cream has the...

Dessert-Worthy Fall Fruits You Should Have in Your Fridge
When you think about delicious Fall food foods, if you're like most people your mind probably wanders to Fall veggies like butternut squash, brussels sprouts, and sweet potatoes. But keep in mind, with Fall vegetables comes Fall fruits, and they can make the perfect...

Home Gardens: Can You Grow Tomatoes Indoors?
Heading into the Fall season isn't really known as the best time for planting and growing tomatoes. But with a little ingenuity and some large windows that let in good sunlight, you can have your tomatoes year-round. In fact, growing tomato plants inside your home can...

How To Make Buttermilk (And Butter And Buttermilk Biscuits) At Home
How To Make Buttermilk Let's be clear from the start, it's buttermilk we want. Not a substitution for buttermilk like when we find ourselves in one of those "Kitchen Pinches". You know, when the recipe calls for a 1/2 cup of buttermilk and we neglected to buy it at...

How To Cook Corn – What The Devil Is Parched Corn?
How To Cook Corn Summer is dwindling. The taste of that sweet corn is but a memory in my mouth. When I am on the farm, the sweet corn planting has been staggered so that the harvest lasts as long into August as possible. There is plenty and not a day goes by that the...

Kitchen Lessons: How to Use a French Press
Coffee in America is about as ubiquitous as hot dogs and apple pie. In fact, we'd guess that you'd be pretty hard pressed to find a home in most places that doesn't prominently feature a coffee machine in the kitchen. Just to be sure, we did a little research and it...

Pantry Raid: How to Cook Acorn Squash
We've been on a squash kick lately, whether it's talking about butternut squash or dishing up dinner ideas for spaghetti squash, you can't really go wrong with a root vegetable when the temperature starts to dip. One of the things we really love about squash - and...

Is Canned Food Bad For You?
We live in a time when people can't stop singing the praises of fresh produce and locally sourced foods. And don't get us wrong - we love fresh produce and local farms just as much as the next person, but what about food that isn't fresh out of the ground? Is it...