Maker’s Mark is a good beginner’s premium bourbon. I would pair it with pan seared pecan crusted salmon in a brown sugar / bourbon glaze (with Maker’s Mark of course). It also goes great with frozen water.

actually start to think you’re ``back home'' (well, maybe after a frozen marg or 2).

! Skim! SKIM! To serve, remove all the chicken (and set aside for tomorrow’s dinner of the world’s best chicken salad) and vegetables (and serve alongside the soup). Serve the broth with thin egg noodles (or closest...

Any tortilla chips if they are crisp and salty enough—especially if I can dip them into large quantities of my own homemade, very junky, and very satisfying queso. I confess that this was my dinner on Monday night.

to eat an early dinner (don’t regularly eat late dinners and then plop into bed and go to sleep). The key to portion control is, as others have suggested, to eat well, not eat lots.

be formed into balls or patties and fried. They turned out to be Spanish bar food, like jalepeño poppers, preformed stubby fingers, breaded and fried. Perfectly tasty, but disappointing to be served frozen food. This casual meal,...

15 minutes??? 15 Minutes??? Are you f-ing kidding me? 15 minutes to conceptualize a 1st course for 80 people? Never mind trying to figure out how to execute it – geez! H#ll – I’m bringing the appetizer to Dinner...

or noodles. Very blue walls. Full bar at dinner. Anywhere else, I wouldn’t be impressed, but one of the more promising meals I’ve had downtown. Birley’s Sandwiches, Embarcadero 4. They’re huge, expensive,...

other supermarket. If you like to cook, this place is invaluable — even tho I live in White Plains I find it worth the trip about once a month. Not because I necessarily NEED frozen cuy or Peruvian giant-kernel corn on the...

burner in the center. I am not officially in heaven! (and, yes, you need a powerful hood) Other than that, please do not build a new kitchen with only one stove. Unless you never want to host a nice size dinner party, or a family...

but the woman behind me and her grocery load. Beside the frozen veg she was buying and the skin milk everything she put on the belt was prepared. I was shuddering thinking not only of the trans fats but the amount of sugar she...

with the abundance of good quality coffee these days, I might find a combo I like, but it seems an expensive habit to cultivate. It would be nice for those after dinner social moments (since the only hot drinks I like are green...

, was basically frozen solid and I had to put it in a bucket of water overnight, and I’m just now getting ready to rub on the salt. I will try to remember to give a report and some pix.

My husband and I are visting Minneapolis in late February for a wedding. I’m looking for lunch and dinner ideas. I’d love to eat at restaurants that are not too pricey but also unique. Also we hope to try restaurants...

shallots, blackening is hardly outdated. Blackening is now considered a solid classic technique, particularly in New Orleans — as opposed to a weird, over-composed dessert and a watery, frozen-and-thawed raw fish dish....