I am a kitchen designer, I have also gone through a major kitchen remodel. I purchased a hot plate and it was a life saver. Ask around, someone might have one. Just remember not to plug everything in at once. I did use paper...

Whether you are already enjoying your dream kitchen, or still just dreaming, I’d love to hear about it! My partner and I will be gutting our little kitchen and starting from scratch (except we already have a fridge –...

Definately making a soup from scratch. Teach how you can use kitchen scraps for making the stock. Defatting a stock and using it to make a soup. You could make the stock in combination with another topic and then do the soup the...

not seen it that way as a countertop. I love mine-very durable solid surface. No seams/no grout. I hate grout-especially on a kitchen surface. Just my personal tic. The polish has worn off in some places and it has a pleasing...

as a non-practicing Jew, i’m pretty sure any requests i made to Santa would fall on deaf ears. so i might as well go for broke, just for kicks...how about a new house so i can design my ultimate dream kitchen? ;)

I agree with QueenB. My kitchen, my rules. I don’t care if you don’t approve of composting, the veg scraps go in the compost bowl. And definitely no sneakily adding things! That would drive me crazy.

Is a handful of simmered vegetable scraps really more flavorful than box stock? Serious Eats has the answer.

From fondue to fried cheesecake, chefs make the most of their kitchen scraps.

Improve your applesauce, gnocchi, and more with this old-fashioned kitchen gadget.

It’s a common question for people who love food—should I scrap my current career and go to culinary school? Before you plunk down money and buy a white coat, hear what the pros have to say.

A number of years ago I worked in kitchen where we made rum balls out of chocolate cake scraps, raspberry preserves, rum and melted chocolate. Does anybody have a recipe for rum balls that uses cake and not cookies/wafers? TIA!

I have a friend that is looking for Pavlova sold in the Tampa Bay area. His talents lie outside the kitchen, so baking one is not an option.

If you want marble or granite, the easiest and cheapest solution is to contact suppliers of counter tops for kitchens and baths. Scrap pieces can be found in various sizes at scrap prices.

compost pile, just about any yard waste and kitchen scraps can be added. However, you do not want to introduce meat, fat or bones, weeds that spread by rhizomes, such as wild violets, or branches and twigs that will not break...

If you do not have a bin make sure that when you take your kitchen scraps to the pile, rake back a good part of the top layer of grass or what not, dump your scraps and then recover. I have found that once I eliminated even...