The Modern Technique for Perfectly Cooked Meals While shopping at Costco this weekend, I was killing some time looking at their cookbooks while my wife was shopping for some clothes for the girls. I came across this cookbook by Lisa Q. Fetterman called Sous Vide at Home, picked it up, thumbed through some pages and […]
A Cookbook For Cakes in a Cup Back in January of 2013, I posted a recipe for Chocolate Cake in a Cup sent to us with all the ingredients plus four mugs by my sister-in-law. I wasn’t wowed at the time but after my oldest daughter made one of them in the microwave in just […]
The Business End of Opening A Restaurant or Catering Business I recently received this paperback book So You’re A Chef – Now What? from Chef Deb Cantrell’s publicist. Since I’m more interested in cooking techniques and not opening my own restaurant, I’ve been “reluctant” to pick it up. But once I did, I found […]
What Are 5 Top Selling Cookbooks in May of 2015? I’m a huge fan of cookbooks and like to keep up with the best selling ones and share them with you from time to time. So from my research, here are the Top 5 Best Selling Cookbooks at this moment just in case you are […]
What Are 5 Top Selling Cookbooks in November of 2015? I thought it would be interesting to research and share with you the Top 5 Best Selling Cookbooks every month or so in case you are looking to add to your collection. As a cookbook fan myself, I like to know what are the Best […]
What Is the 5:2 Diet & How Does It Work? This week my I am starting the 5:2 Diet to lose a few pounds. We heard about it from my wife’s sister who lost over 20 pounds in just a couple of months so my wife decided to give it a try. I’m not a […]
The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor Have you ever wondered why those pesky diets we suffer through when we want to loose a few pounds don’t work? New diet fads come and go including the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, the Mediterranean Diet, Nutrisystem, SomerSizing, and the very popular Paleo diet to […]
Looking for Something Special For a Home Cook This Year? I recently received four historical cookbooks from Dover Publications to review and talk about. Dover Publications is a publishing company founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife Blanch and known for publishing books that are no longer published by the original publishing […]
Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Cook Today’s Meat by Bruce Aidells with Anne-Marie Ramo Photography by Luca Trovato If you are familiar with Bruce Aidells’ first cookbook, The Complete Meat Cookbook, you are going to love The Great Meat Cookbook – Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Cook Today’s Meat. […]
The Butcher’s Guide An Insider’s View to Buy the Best Meat and Save Money Jimmy Kerstein is an “Insider to the Meat Business”. What makes him an insider? Forty years of working in the meat industry where he managed local meat markets, big volume retail chain stores and then got involved in the corporate side […]
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How to Make the Best Beef Wellington This Beef Wellington recipe has become a tradition in our house. We prepare it every couple of years for Christmas and made it again this year. If I’m lucky, we will have it next year and the year after that. My wife originally found a recipe in Fine […]
Christmas Standing Rib Roast Thanksgiving is a holiday in which turkey really shines. Many of you would rather not deal with another turkey just four weeks after Thanksgiving. Some of you might still have some frozen leftovers. The Christmas meal is a celebratory meal, and as such, celebration food is a natural at the Christmas […]
How to Bake A Ham For Christmas
Baked Christmas Ham Recipe Would you like to serve a wonderfully flavorful and juicy ham for the holidays? Here’s a can’t-go-wrong recipe that will have your guests asking for seconds, and for a plate of leftovers, as well. Be sure to read about the history of serving ham on Christmas and the various types of […]
