Many seasoning mixes can easily be bought in the nearest grocery stores but they can just as easily be made at home if you ever want to try something you. This isn’t in any way to discourage you from buying them from the stores too but here’s a thought: Seasoning...
There are some foods in life that just equal happiness and comfort. For me, grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup has always been one of those. In fact, it was one of the very first things I learned to cook, along with Kraft Mac & Cheese. I can’t remember...
A lot of people nowadays live a fast-paced kind of life and along with that, we tend to rely on pretty much many things that are ready-made. That is including most things that go inside our body. For example, instead of cooking our own meals out home, more often than...
Farmers’ Markets are really great places to find local products and support local businesses. Although not everything you find there will be handmade and grown local (unless the market you visit only permits local goods,) you are certain to find a very wide variety of...
The holidays are coming up, and for many of us, this means a lot of time spent cooking in the kitchen. Between Thanksgiving dinner, holiday cookie exchanges, Christmas morning breakfast and feeding any family and friends who stop by for an evening or weekend visit,...
The following recipe was developed by just throwing a few things together that were lingering in fridge after making other recipes. We sometimes end up buying a bit more than we actually need at the local market, simply because we get carried away. But we always find...
During the last few weeks, my kitchen has decided to do a purging of its own. For some reason, the gadgets which we have been using for the last 5 or so years have begun to break. My guess is that they just reached the end of their useful life cycle (and probably had...
There are few things in life quite like true Buffalo chicken wings. And although I’ve never eaten them in Buffalo from “the source,” I have sought out the best wings I could find wherever we have lived, from Miami, FL, to Frankfurt, Germany. But by the time we reached...
Since we are weekly visitors to our local farmers' market here in Berlin, it's not difficult to see the seasons (and the foods) changing right before you eyes. And one of the more exciting things that floods the market are chanterelle mushrooms (known asPfifferling...
Since we are weekly visitors to our local farmers’ market here in Berlin, it’s not difficult to see the seasons (and the foods) changing right before you eyes. And one of the more exciting things that floods the market are chanterelle mushrooms (known asPfifferling...
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