Healthy Cooking Basics

Can you cook healthier and still balance a busy family life ?  Of course you can – below are some tips on how to integrate eating better with cooking for a family.
A basic mistake many people make when trying healthy cooking for the first time is attempting recipes that are too complicated for the average [...]

Slow Cooker Recipe for French Cassoulet

Cassoulet is a rustic, French dish, with its origins in French peasant cooking.  Many different regions of France claim their own variation of the recipe, whose name comes from the type of dish the cassole, a deep, round, earthenware pot with slanting sides it’s prepared in.  All the versions contain the white bean (haricots blancs [...]

Zojirushi bread makers – An easy solutiuon to great bread

Do you love fresh bread?  Do you need to bake 100 rolls for a big dinner party, or just wish for the perfect pizza crust?  Or perhaps you just love fresh bread in the morning.  If so, you might want to consider investing in a bread machine.  Check out the Zojirushi line of bread makers.  [...]

Cooking Quotes – Cassoulet

“CASSOULET…that sumptuous amalgamation of haricot beans, sausage, pork, mutton and preserved goose, aromatically spiced with garlic and herbs, is cooked at great length in an earthenware pot, emerging with a golden crust which conceals an interior of gently bubbling, creamy beans and uniquely savory meats.”
Elizabeth David – French Provincial Cooking 1960
Yup – that pretty much [...]

Recipe for Slow Cooker Bologonese Sauce

There is nothing like a rich and hearty bologonese sauce to chase these last bits of winter away. And this version can be prepared using a slow cooker, so you start it early in the day and have a rich, hearty meal at the end of the day.
This version of the classic Italian [...]

Next Page »