On November 13, I attended a cooking class at cookware giant Sur La Table. The topic: Vegetarian dishes. Our fearless leader, teacher, and chef/owner at Sweet Cassava, Susan Taves, led our group of eight down an unforgettable path of new discoveries, interesting factoids about food and the world of professional cooking, and best of all […]
Steak is such a basic dish that it’s crazy to think that up until last week I wasn’t that familiar with how to cook it. It seems simple enough… after all, it’s just a slab of meat that you put on the grill and cook it until it’s done. But I still had so many […]
In our third and final Sur la Table class in a three-part series on “How To Cook Everything,” I learned all about preparing different types of fish, with my fellow editor, Rachel, from RecipeLion.com. In our first class we learned all about cooking grains and veggies, and in our second class we learned about preparing […]
Hello fellow food enthusiasts. Thanksgiving is coming up next week. Are you excited?! I can’t wait. Green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes…oh my! I have not hosted Thanksgiving myself yet, so I’ve never had the joy/burden/daunting task of making the turkey. That has always been left to the pros – and by pros, I mean […]
I know how to roast a whole chicken, and I certainly know how to broil a chicken breast in a pinch. But, I’ve never figured out how to master restaurant-style chicken, much like what one would find at a nice Italian restaurant. The prospect of duplicating restaurant-style Italian chicken at home always seemed so daunting! […]
There are few things more comforting than a hot bowl of soup on a cold winter day. I absolutely love soup recipes because many of them are easy to make, use up leftover ingredients and freeze well for a quick weeknight dinner. From healthy soup recipes that clean out the refrigerator, to quick chicken soup […]
When you’re a beginner-to-average cook, you usually start out with the basics: chicken, ground beef and the like. And that’s all well and good for a while. Who doesn’t like hamburgers and chicken casseroles for dinner, after all? But soon you grow tired of having the same thing for dinner week in and week out […]
I’ll be the first to admit that polenta is one of those dishes that has always intimidated me as a novice cook. It just sounds fancy and difficult to make and totally out of my comfort zone. Before last Tuesday, I didn’t even fully know what polenta was, to be honest. But last Tuesday was […]
Many of us assume mastery over own kitchens, but it never hurts to go back to the basics. The editors at Prime Publishing LLC obsess over food and cooking for a living, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use a kitchen brush-up once in a while. While I spend much of my time thinking about […]
