TweetQuestion: Does anyone have any good pasta salad recipes? I also want some good potato and macaroni recipes as well. Thank you in advance. Our Answer: Ok, for the best pasta salad you’ve ever had, check my recipe here. It makes a great take along dish for picnics, 4th of July, church suppers, potluck, etc. [...]

Tweet 93 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 Great Depression. To make this meal you need: bag of lentils water 1 cup rice steak (you can [...]

Tweet Now, I have experimented a few times with my rice cooker, especially one night when the gas (propane) ran out in the middle of cooking, and I had to finish in the rice cooker.  But this is a great little video that shows how many choices there are.  They are really one of the [...]

TweetRaw Miso Soup I have been learning a lot about raw food in the last month and a half.  I will put on a complete article about it at some point. For now, here is a simple raw recipe that is great for beginners, and satisfies cravings for meat and cooked food if you’re just [...]

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

TweetI 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 they could easily fall out. [...]

Tweet 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 a bit ambitious, but [...]

TweetI’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, stories, etc. submitted by children.  [...]

Tweet Is my steak rare, or medium, or well done?  How can you tell without cutting it open and destroying the steak?  Cooking perfect steak is easy with the help of Chef Tips host Jason Hill. Hill explains how to tell when a steak is done by using a simple restaurant method. Now, you’ll always [...]

Tweet 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 we deal with layoffs, slow economy, and [...]