I need recipes for a fun party?I’m getting ready to have a fun party for women only and i need some cute recipes.

How do you organize your recipes?I have a TON of recipes (could easily fill a large binder full) & I’ve started organzing the recipes by category (e.g. fish, pasta, cakes, cookies, etc) & putting them into the labeled plastic folders. Then I was going to put the folders into a binder but the problem is [...]

Child’s Play — Cooking Alinea Theo, 5, and James, 9, cook a recipe from the Alinea cookbook.  The recipe is pheasants with shallots, cider gel, birch, and oak leaves.  The Alinea cookbook is a molecular gastronomy book.  Molecular Gastronomy combines high tech science and cooking, made famous by chefs like Grant Achatz.   It seems [...]

New site for kids – Online-Kidz.comI’m helping develop a new website for kids, called Online-Kidz.com .  I’m really excited about this project.  We have a few videos and advice columns up.  It will soon include more of these, plus games, recipes for kids, music, and more.  Plus, we want to have drawings, photos, videos, poems, [...]

Pancakes II: Pancakes for your face 5th of February 2008 is pancake day – make sure to celebrate it by cooking up a batch of pancakes, and trying some new toppings. Visit http://www.welovepancakes.com for recipe ideas and a brief history on how pancakes came to be so popular These ARE pancakes – pancakes are different [...]

Pani Puri Recipe by Manjula, Indian Vegetarian Cooking http://www.ManjulasKitchen.com Learn how to make Pani Puri, an Indian treat. Makes about 60 puris. Ingredients Pani (Spicy Water): 1 cup mint leaves (Pudina) 2 to 4 green chilies (adjust to taste) 3 tablespoons tamarind paste (Imli) 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon black salt 1 teaspoon salt [...]

Great Depression Cooking Episode:1 – Pasta with Peas 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression.  These recipes and tips are just as relevant today, as [...]

Great Depression Cooking Episode:2 – Egg Drop Soup 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression. In this episode Clara makes Egg Drop Soup and remembers [...]

Taking care of cookbooksTo keep your cookbooks clean while cooking, and to hold your place, slip them into a ziplock, or wrap with plastic wrap.

Hawaiian Stove Top Dish- 1/4 to 1/2 small bell pepper, sliced, for each diner – 2 pineapple rings (or a similar amount of fresh pineapple), chopped into bite sized pieces, for each dinner – 2 ounces chicken, ham, Polish sausage, firm tofu, or sliced beef for each dinner – 1 tsp. soy sauce or tamari, [...]