If you have treats for 200 and only 40 kids show up at your door this weekend, you can find a way to use that extra Halloween candy or snacks before you end up throwing them away.
When it comes to home baking, the idea of convenience has been kidnapped by well-meaning manufacturers who have created a culture of pre-rolled pie crust, shrink-wrapped cookie mix and frozen cudgels of bread dough.
My mother-in-law orders Taste of Home magazine for my husband and me every year. At the beginning of my marriage, when it hadn’t yet occurred to me that a fast-food dinner in the break room of the newspaper building was unusual, I was confused by my mother-in-law’s gift.
It’s our favorite fruit and American as, well, its most popular baked good.
NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio -- If you have ever wished with regret that Grandma had not taken the recipe for her special sweet rolls to the grave with her, you will appreciate Mary Ann Winkowski’s new book.
The call from Mark Scarbrough’s mother was the last straw -- and some inspiration for a new book.
Michelle Roberts laughs merrily when she says she loves food.
There are lots of chocolate cake recipes in the world. But this one is funny: You don’t use a mixing bowl. You don’t need butter or eggs. You kind of play around with the ingredients. And when it bakes, it makes a cake that’s yummy.
The kaleidoscope of tomatoes and peppers now in season offers an almost unlimited color palette for making salsa.
You can spend the summer munching handfuls of berries or juice-dripping peaches, plums and apricots. Or you can give that fruit a job to do.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Lillian Smith is ready for a bountiful crop of summer tomatoes.
Jello salads were a staple of every church potluck, neighborhood block party and birthday picnic of my youth. I can’t remember a celebration where there wasn’t at least one giant bowl of fruit jello on the buffet table.
School has started but summer-time temperatures are far from over here in the South. If you feel like it will never cool down help yourself feel cooler with an ice-cold treat such as an “adult” popsicle (read: booze-infused) or a refreshing granita. Here are six recipes to help you beat the heat.
Everything’s better with bacon. Sorry, vegetarians and pork-haters, it’s true.
LOS ANGELES -- Last weekend, I picked the first tomatoes of the season from our little vegetable garden out back. It felt like an eternity before the fruit on those massive plants finally ripened; now all of a sudden the garden is littered with bright red tomatoes. I spent the weekend tossing them in with salads and grilling thick slices with a little salt and cracked pepper, fixing tomato ‘n’ mayo sandwiches and toasting the summer’s bounty with Bloody Marys.
Picking a perfect watermelon is an inexact science.
Cookbook author Rebecca Lang is passionate about eating food that’s grown locally. She supports farmers near her home in Athens, and she’s working with the Georgia Blueberry Commission to introduce Georgians to state-grown berries.
The Georgia BlueBerry Commission shares the following recipes:
MIAMI -- For mango lovers, this season is particularly sweet.
Potato salad might be a staple at American picnics, but it traveled the world to get here. There are German potato salads and French potato salads.
