First of all, almost everything cooked directly over a campfire needs a little touch of char, especially anything cooked on a stick like a hot dog or a marshmallow. A wee touch of the black never hurt a chunk vegetable or piece...

think. Like 3 or so days, depending on how deeply frozen. More important to me than fresh or frozen is that the turkey isn’t enhanced with a saline solution. Look for a bird that says something like 100% natural or something...

with the program, which seems to involve picking up the whole piece and biting off hunks. Never mastered the Inuit style of grasping food with teeth and cutting off bite-sized chunk.

The first year they had it, it was a chunk of corned-beef, battered and deep fried. I was hoping they’d find a way to get the kraut in it, but no go. I was equally unimpressed.

to put it, bad cook. I didn’t really start to understand the pleasure of a good meal until I was on my own and moved to the west coast. What’s your story?

or two of XO sauce. It was filling but hardly an extravagently large meal, and it was 9 points. That’s a big chunk of my food budget. I’m not saying it can’t be done, only that it’s easier for me to fill...

No offense, but it sounds like your husband has it right. You can’t enjoy the flavor of a trend. Of course, I tend to oppose trends by nature. Things that are simply good for their own merits are rarely trendy.

Oh, I’ve got easy. Natural vanilla ice cream (one scoop) in a martini glass. Put kiwi and strawberry that you’ve sugared and let sit for an hour or so, thinly sliced around the inside of the glass. Take a strawberry...

the Preserve via the road to Kelso (no relation to the 70´s show, I´m sure). On this 30 mile stretch of road, I didn´t see a single vehicle, feeling much like Cmdr Mark, on whose website you can find a excellent account of his...

. Entertainingly, this dude was saying, "THIS is real Chinese food! You like? That chicken sweet-and-sour , that’s not Chinese! I don’t eat out much, only here. Me and my friends can make better food than most places....

Just got back from 5 days, 4 nights in DC. Too much to do in too little time. Somehow I got through the Holocaust Museum, the Air & Space Museum, the Natural History Museum, the American History Museum, the National Gallery, the...

Since I knew I wouldn’t be able to join the clam crawl, I’ve been doing my own North Shore clam evaluations this season. Amusingly enough I had an order of the Clam Box’s big bellies earlier today, just before I...

This one was meant as a lesson. I used to caddy in the summer at a local golf course. A few of us brought our own lunch. I’d have a sandwich, chips, and usually a Drake’s Cake of some sort. Some of the caddys were...

correctly within the context of their own cuisines – but simply dont match the palates of some eaters. So order another dish, already – I say the consumer who made a wrong choice should bear the cost of that choice,...

Well, this recipe for croquetas is common home cooking in Spain and also a near-ubiquitous snack food in bars throughout Spain, especially “croquetas de jamón” from bechamel spotted with chunks of serrano ham....