Cornbread is a great way to utilize pantry staples and requires very little effort to make. The only trick to cornbread is that it has to be amazing every time, for as we all know, dry cornbread is t...
A quick dinner is often very dependent on how you stock your pantry. What do you stash away in your pantry for quick, easy meals? Here's a peek inside my own pantry and freezer with ten good staples...
This is a question that has bugged us for quite some time! What is cream of tartar? Is it natural? What does it do? And please tell us it has nothing to do with the tartar that dentists talk about......
We home cooks like to be prepared. Who knows when we might get the urge to whip up a pasta sauce or succumb to a craving for chocolate chip cookies? We've talked about the sweet and savory dry-storage...
Is the perfect chocolate chip cookie this year's No-Knead Bread? And if so, are chocolate féves this year's instant yeast? When the No-Knead Bread recipe came out there was a run on instant y...
We are stocking up on our pantry basics and working on cooking without recipes this weekend. This reminds us that we have a whole new landscape of pantry basics that have been livening up our cooking...
Here is a great question from Chelsea that illustrates a common dilemma... I noticed that this week's Cure is about keeping less processed food in the house. Which is something great that I'm trying...
Last weekend we made our Malaysian Beef Curry, a slow, cinnamon and chili-spiced curry of beef slow-cooked in coconut milk and exotic flavorings. It's deep and rich, yet total home comfort food. ...
If you've baked a chocolate or mocha-flavored cake or dessert, the recipe probably called for espresso powder or instant espresso. What's espresso powder, and can you substitute something else? Espr...
If you bake with cocoa you have probably noticed recipes that call for either Dutch-processed or natural (non-Dutch-processed) cocoa powder. What is Dutch process cocoa powder, and how will it affec...
Like pans and prep tools there is a dizzying array of baking ingredients available. Even a small grocery store will offer at least five kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar and lots of other things t...
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