When my friend Preeti recently gave me a silver container full of cardamom pods, mustard seed, cinnamon, cloves, coriander and cumin, and an invitation to teach me Indian cooking, I was thrilled. This past weekend, the two of us planned a family dinner with our husbands and combined four kids. On ...
Indian Cooking Lesson
When my friend Preeti recently gave me a silver container full of cardamom pods, mustard seed, cinnamon, cloves, coriander and cumin, and an invitation to teach me Indian cooking, I was thrilled. This past weekend, the two of us planned a family dinner with our husbands and combined four kids. On ...
Announcing the Winners of the Sam's Club Gift Card Giveaway
We’re excited to announce the three winners of the $100 gift card from Sam’s Club. Each winner gave us a great food shopping cost-saving tip. Here they are: Katrina in Wisconsin recently traded in her coupon expandable file for a zip-up binder with clear pockets. Each coupon is filed ...
Finding Your Recipes
A few days before a recent big holiday we'd be sharing with friends, we decided on the menu based on the collective traditions of two families. We brought to the table our various Jewish, Catholic, Quaker, Unitarian, East Coast, West Coast, Midwestern and New England sensibilities from growing up, ...
The Pyrex "Pay it Forward" Pan
It's the last day of the year, and not surprisingly, some of my resolutions involve food! That is, teaching and learning about cooking and food. The food journey is never over! Here are a few things I want to do: Teaching: I'll help a friend get over her fear of cooking fish. And, I'm planning ...
Food Resolutions
It's the last day of the year, and not surprisingly, some of my resolutions involve food! That is, teaching and learning about cooking and food. The food journey is never over! Here are a few things I want to do: Teaching: I'll help a friend get over her fear of cooking fish. And, I'm planning ...
Snow Food
As my kids and I make a Pear Crisp for tonight's dessert and I watch the snow fall outside, I am reminded of three wonderful times when snow played a part in unexpected sharing food with friends. Most recently, two weeks ago, we had a blizzard here in Madison, and school was cancelled. Our ...
Winning Holiday Cooking Story
We are so pleased to announce that Suzy in New Jersey is the winner of the fabulous white KitchenAid Stand Mixer, compliments of Sam’s Club. Suzy wrote and submitted an amazing story about holiday cooking with friends and family. Her story is an example of the significant role cooking with others ...
Recipe Memories
Since the mid-1980s (judging from the newspaper and magazine dates), I've been collecting recipes and stories about food. There is the email from my college roommate titled "Artichoke Thing," the recipe for Jackie Kennedy's chocolate souffle copied from one of my mother's cookbooks, and many other ...
Holiday Cooking With Kids
Many of our holiday traditions started in our childhood kitchens cooking with family. Whether we decorated sugar cookies or helped baste the turkey, the moments spent preparing meals together were instrumental in shaping who we are as moms and home cooks today. We now find ourselves in our grown-up ...