Steppin' Up Your Cheese Game

This week’s mission: frozen diet dinners featuring fruit, and classy cheese vehicles.

Italian Chefs Won't Weep

This week’s mission: frozen Italian dinners and microbrewed sodas.

A Better Bottled Coffee Drink

This week’s mission: fancy frozen pasta and bottled milky-coffee treats.

Cheesy Italian-esque Hot Pocket

This week’s mission: doughy calzone-type treats and a desperate cranberry move.

Tea Bags for Cocktails?

This week’s mission: frozen Italian meals with a reasonably healthy twist and tea bags for your mixed drink.

The Kitsch Value of Jimmy Dean

This week’s mission: frozen sweet-and-sour Thai food, and mini breakfast sausages wrapped in pancakes.

Toaster Pastries Fit for a Monk

This week’s mission: ready-made meals for gluten allergy sufferers and a healthier alternative to Pop-Tarts.

The Basics: How to Make a Philly Cheesesteak

Minus the Cheez Whiz.

Healthy Mini Pizza Roll Adventure

This week’s mission: ostensibly wholesome pizza snacks.

The Basics: How to Make Shrimp Scampi

A fancy old-school classic.

What If You Ruin the Turkey?

Should you try to cover it up, confess, go without, or just order pizza?

How to Stay Healthy During the Holidays

Clean Food author Terry Walters weighs in.

Playing with Fire

CHOW tests the best kitchen torches on crème brûlée and beyond.

The Basics: How to Roast a Turkey

The centerpiece of Thanksgiving dinner.

The Basics: How to Make Pumpkin Pie

A Thanksgiving holiday classic.