this has been fun to read. got a few of my own with a new pressure cooker I was making a soup. A friend was passing the house and we stood outside the front door for about half an hour chatting when BOOM. I hadnt turned down the...

lifestyle. Many people became vegetarians ... preparing meals from legumes (beans), rice, and vegetables.” A few recipes to highlite the food of this region include: Broiled Salmon Steaks, Marinated Artichokes, Parsley New...

- honed after almost 25 years of togetherness, its a tango – in tune and usually a good performance. Right now we are in our Indian phase and a slow cooker phase (the latter because I got sick of cold food in this eternal...

Poor us :( I just “made” Caralien’s 3-4 ingredient potato leek soup in slow cooker for dinner.

people, heads up, if you know OC as well as the bay area, please contribute. Melanie knows the bay area quite well and has consistently praised Shibucho in Costa Mesa. Try some local “silly” or otherwise things, the...

their shows reasonably often. Even if you aren’t cooking their recipes from every show, you will be surprised at how much you pick up on basic food and technique. Try to keep it simple. Master a really good roast chicken, a...

Well, I’m chiming in a bit late here, but since nobody else has mentioned it ... how about a high-quality pressure cooker, like a Kuhn-Rikon? (Weddings are a good time to get others to spring for the expensive stuff!)...

How about stuffing/dressing in your crockpot? The crockpot keeps it nice and moist. 464 people can’t be wrong. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Stuffing-2/Detail.aspx Find something from the crockpot lady. She has 310...

. You’d have to be a saint, or a lunatic to “only” eat SOLE, and yes, I have canned tomatoes, beans, and thai rice in my cupboard. I also have a can of “chilli” and some Asian sauces with a carbon...

of sweetened condensed milk in a pressure cooker to make a facsimile.

I’m an old (51) gal who grew up with a dad who loved to cook for fun. He worked on Wall Street in a pressure cooker job, and cooking was his form of relaxation on the weekends. We always had a big, open kitchen and many of...

customers a few nights a week. Two weeks after Katrina, I channeled Irma and spent 4 days organizing, shopping,chopping, serving (and selling and cleaning up,) red beans and rice and corn bread for 250 people and sold it a...

, bedtimes, etc.; an elderly friend who loves to have us over, she does hors d’oeuvres, drinks and dessert and we take the main event. It’s always an easy to transport meal, i.e., pasta with salad and bread; a pork...

. It is a funky place that is a Mexican, Asian and Caribbean fusion place. Nothing fancy or expensive, but the food is fantastic. Things like the Jade Chicken Quesadilla or the Egg Foo Yong Burrito or the Refried Beans and Pork...

I don’t like Burger King’s food...but that’s incorrect. Their burgers are 100% beef and are, in fact, cooked on a cooker that does allow for actual fire. I can’t speak to whether the grill marks are fake....