By Pamela Vachon It started, as many mornings do, with a bowl of cereal. It was October 2020, and I was having a simple, quick breakfast while contemplating weight loss. The early months of the coronavirus pandemic had created a weight challenge for many people, as baking fads and stress-eating occupied our waking, quarantined hours…
Read More I Lost 25 Pounds Relying on This One Kitchen ToolThey’re small changes that, in perspective, really upped my cooking game. By Margaret Eby I got a chance to get a taste of that culinary school life myself thanks to a hundred-hour Culinary Techniques program at the International Culinary Center. What I found in the six weeks I participated in the program—a kind of accelerated, compressed version of…
Read More 11 Tips from Culinary School That Changed the Way I CookI have a 3-quart InstantPot. I took a 1 lb. package of beef stew meat, which is just cut up chuck roast. I peeled and cut into quarters 1 large yellow sweet onion. I put the onion in the bottom of the instant pot container. I added a lot of garlic. I poured in enough…
Read More My Instant Pot Beef Dish for 2No serious oil producer is going to put their oil in a plastic bottle or a clear bottle. Joanne Lacina, founder and president of Olive Oil Lovers Stick with extra virgin Look for a harvest date Use your senses Read the entire article HERE, please.
Read More Olive Oil HintsWho Is Princess Pamela? A Southern Cooking Legend Returns Who is Princess Pamela? The author of my favorite cookbook. The original one, not this new, white folks version. The book, written in 1969, is a collection of recipes from The Little Kitchen, Pamela Strobel’s twelve-seat soul food restaurant, which she opened in Manhattan’s East Village…
Read More Who is Princess Pamela?Today I was in the mood for some southern-style cooking. I was born in the Midwest, grew up in the Midwest and Southwest, and lived among southerners and the descendants of Southerners. My thinking about food is influenced by the deliciousness of southern cooking, that is, the cooking done by black women in their hot…
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