Sabine's cookbooks are in Dutch and she's used to measuring ingredients by weight on a trusty European food scale. But a summer morning making her homemade ketchup recipe this week showed we have much more in common than not. We want to make healthy foods for our kids, encourage their creativity ...
Through the Years
My friend Evelyn and I often cook together and share ingredients and dishes we want each other to try (or to help us finish the leftovers). When she and her husband went on a vacation recently, Evelyn brought me back an incredible gift--The Picture Cookbook published by Life in 1958. She was ...
Cooking Family
As I'm sauteeing garlic, my five-year-old picks basil from the garden and plucks off the leaves, my 2-year-old cracks eggs expertly in a bowl and my husband chops mushrooms and olives. We're making a simple vegetable frittata for dinner. As we all fall into our roles to the backdrop of Van ...
Lazy Days of Summer
I'll admit it, there are nights I just don't want to cook. As much as I truly love cooking, there are those moments when everyone is hungry before I get a chance to even think about dinner, and also those times when I'd rather sit down with my husband and have a glass of wine than fire up the ...
Staples Swap
The Denver girls who cook together are meeting again this month to swap what we reach for the most in our kitchens...staples. It's the first time we're trying this swap, with the idea that we all need to stock our freezers and fridges with healthy, delicious ingredients for quick meals. We're ...
On Our Bookshelf in July
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman -- An incredible, indispensable food reference book. From his introductory sentence: “Anyone can cook, and most everyone should,” Bittman is clear, authoritative and encouraging. ...
Cherry Capital
I'm about to be in a two-bedroom Lake Michigan beach house with a dozen people, and I can't wait. We'll shop for smoked fish in Leland (where I once ran into Mario Batali, so it's got to be good, right?), make cherry dishes from the local fruit, and drink wine as we watch the waves rush in and out. ...
Stretching Muscles
A ski instructor once told me since he started skiing, he thinks about it even when he isn't really thinking about it. He might stand on an escalator almost unconsciously moving the right way, exercising muscles on the off-season. You might have had the same experience when you're learning a new ...
Stove Strike
It's not officially summer yet, but all around the nation the weather is heating up, causing many of us to go on a stove strike. It's a great time for our Cool Cucumber Dill Soup (see home page) or to throw together a Garden Vegetable Salad or Gazpacho with very little effort or cooking. Our ...
Cooling Off With Hot Food Writers
from A Mighty Appetite, a blog of the Washington Post June 10, 2008 Cooling Off With Hot Food Writers By Kim ODonnel If you live east of the Mississippi and as north as Boston, you know it's BLAZING hot for early June. Here in Washington, we're in Day Four of an extreme heat wave, making ...