5 Dishes Every Teen Should Learn To Cook

For as long as I can remember, learning to cook was a rite of passage for all the girls in our family. It always started out small: cutting onions, peeling apples, plucking vegetables. (Why does this sound slightly medieval?) The good thing was that Mom never had to force us to cook. We wandered into…

The Beginner Cook’s List: 10 Basic Tools For Your Kitchen

It's not much use having all the needed equipment and not knowing how to use it, is it? When I first "took over" our family's kitchen and cooking responsibility, there were a quite few things that I either did not know how to use or else used it wrongly. So apparently, our "pie scoop" is…

Quick Guide to Easier Personal Pizzas

Exciting news! Although writing this at midnight isn't going to help me show you that in any way particularly. And for once, it isn't a recipe post, but rather more of a guide. (Writing this blog thing is harder than it looks, trust me.) I had one of those eureka moments today while whipping up…

The Lazy Cook’s Cheat-sheet: How I Moved Away From Meal Planning

Now, if you're not a recipe blogger this may not be a big deal for you. Even for a recipe blogger, this wasn't a big deal for me. But I have found (after 3.5 minutes of googling) that almost every home-cook in the recipe blog world belong to one of two camps. First: the Meal-Planners.…

10 Corollaries to Murphy’s Law (Cooking Edition)

A few days ago I was thinking of all the uncanny things that tend to happen in the kitchen. You know the things I'm talking about: you always have enough baking soda except when you need it; the no-fail recipe fails when you need to bake a huge batch for a gathering, etc. etc. And…