Choux Pastry With Cheese – The Path to Cheese Puffs
Choux Pastry With Cheese = Cheese Puffs Who doesn't love cheese puffs? Or as the French call them - gourgères. They are always a hit, especially at parties. They are a perfect snack for just about every holiday. A hot batch of cheese puffs can even make a Valentine...
Carrie in the Kitchen: Warm Lentil Salad with Tuna and Kale
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...
Pantry Raid: How to Cook Grits
Sometimes you just get a hankering for Southern cooking. And when that craving hits, nothing is better than whipping up a bowl of hot grits. Grits are a way of life in the Southern states of the U.S. In fact, they're eaten for breakfast along with eggs and bacon, and...
What Can I Use as a Brown Sugar Substitute?
Any time you head into the kitchen to embark on a baking frenzy, there's one ingredient that you'll undoubtedly need and that's brown sugar. And if you're anything like us, the moment you realize you need brown sugar is also the moment you realize you're out of brown...
Delicious Roasted Eggplant
Delicious Roasted Eggplant Eggplant is one of those vegetables that often gets passed up in the grocery store. It used to be that the only way most people ate it was in the form of a greasy egg plant parmesan, maybe a capponatta (the Italian cousin of ratatouille), or...
4 Ways to Help the Less Fortunate This Thanksgiving Holiday
Thanksgiving is a time to spend with friends and family around the kitchen table, enjoying good food and good times. But not everyone is as fortunate, and while it's great to reflect on the things and people we're thankful for this upcoming holiday, we also want to...
Pantry Raid: How to Cook Japanese Eggplant
If you've ever come across a Japanese eggplant in the supermarket, you've probably stopped and stared for a moment. As far as fresh produce goes, it's a pretty stunning vegetable. It's deep purple color and long, slender shape can be eye-catching. Don't believe us?...
What’s a Baking Soda Substitute?
We're back to talking about substitutes, because there's nothing worse than getting halfway through a recipe and realizing you're out of an ingredient. Earlier this month, we talked about what to use as a substitute for eggs. Today, we're going to talk about baking...
Easy Pasta Recipe – Pappardelle With Peppers and Chorizo
Easy Pasta Recipe - Pappardelle With Peppers and Chorizo On a night where simple is needed, I turn to pasta. It really does not take much to make a great pasta dish. Many times, whether it is a pasta with a cream sauce or just a plain tomato sauce, the ingredient list...
Garbanzo Beans Recipe – The Chic(k) Peas!
Garbanzo Beans Recipe It is strange to me when foods have 2 names but are the same thing - sauce and gravy, soda and pop. The same confusion reigns when I think about garbanzo beans and chick peas. Is this some kind of alter ego thing? Can they not decide between...