. Now we get into the dorm food realm... Coq au Vin. Huh? This is their signature dish? Overcooked chicken was tasteless and rubbery. They used those awful white cap mushrooms that have absolutely no flavor in huge chunks. The...

Please realize that being a UCSC student, your son and at least some of his friends may not be eating red meat, any meat, or may be vegetarian or even vegan. Being an alum and avid cook, I would ALWAYS inquire before planning a...

Someone made these for fellowship hour at church this past Sunday—they disappeared and they were SO cute and perfectly bite-size! The idea is similar to “pine bark” but without the butter, stovetop cooking, etc....

working with the old oven in my dorm “kitchenette.” I’m sure a number of things went wrong, but I’m not quite sure what, and this was not the optimal first-time experience I had in mind. - First, the recipe...

and a cutting board. I vividly remember amazing my dorm mates with fried chicken breaded in cracker meal (we scrounged up crackers in little packets from the cafeteria), cooked in the hall kitchen. One girl didn’t even know...

. The staff (on the tv show) seem to be technically qualified but not “ethnic” nor “authentic”. The foods they cook are "cafeteria or dorm food flavored".

minutes! The Cook-Zen cooks everything in a quarter of the time it would take normally, and really does almost anything you can think of. I am buying one shortly for my dorm room in the fall and it is going to be a huge time...

The in-the-cup heating coil used to be the standard dorm room cooking tool – in the days before cheap microwaves. I don’t know how the Cambodian approach to coffee differs from the Vietnamese, but I’m somewhat...

because I want to be Bobby Flay). Based on their current skill set, my guess is functional cooking, so I would start with a slow cooker. You can buy a cheap small one for $30 at home depot or target and you can use it in your dorm...

I’ve been stuck in a hotel room for a couple of weeks and I’m tired of eating out. I’m looking for some simple easy to prepare recipes (I’m not a great cook) that I can make in my hotel kitchen without...

The last three times I cooked for people, the food turned out fine but, I’m ashamed to say, was at least an hour late. I begin with the best intentions yet something unexpected always happens: I forgot the chicken was...

How about investing in an electric skillet? (not the flat kind, the tall, square ones with a lid). I used one for most of my dorm room cooking... mine had a high lid, so you could brown and sort of “bake” many things...

Hello, all, First of all, I hope this is in the right forum. Anyway, my birthday is coming up, and as an alternative to the dinner/drinks combo, I’d rather be with a couple close friends and take a little cooking course. I...

my mom bought my the bittman "how to cook everything" when i moved out of the dorms in college. it’s great for teaching you basic cooking techniques and ideas, but i found its best feature is the detailed descriptions on...

was appropriate (and safe) for their age. They both lived in dorms their first year college and then moved into apartments. One said her roomates were, like, "you cook?" Her answer was “hey, it's just stir-fry.” But...