Finding a 90-point wine at your local store's Saturday free tasting is a very pleasant surprise. Finding it at $10 is even more pleasant...

This is Wine Week. You might ask, isn't every week? Well, somebody designated this wine week somewhere, so we're going to review a d...

One of the tricks of merchandising and marketing is to use leftovers to produce a product similar to the main brand. Thus, every drug store ...

We'll admit it—the first time we donned our Orka oven mitts , we found them stiff and unwieldy. And the first time we used them to reach...

This photo of the fried queso fresco does not do the dish justice. It is a delicious crispy treat made even better by the homemade salsa we ...

One of the great advantages of writing a blog about wines that cost $10 or less is that guests often bring such wines to dinner parties and ...

We're eating up our curried vegetables and the black-bean chili we made for the Superbowl as well as the chocolate chip cookies, the ric...

We're big fans of Cook's Illustrated and its TV show, America's Test Kitchen. We were charter subscribers to the original Cook...

We got about 30 inches, and yes the electricity did go out. Fortunately it waited until after we had made the curried vegetables and the spi...

We thought that the big snowstorm before Christmas was the big one for the year — and significantly deeper than normal for the mid-Atlantic ...

A blend of toasted sesame seeds and sea salt, gomasio is a condiment that adds flavor and texture without delivering too much sodium. You ma...

As previously explained, we avoid a lot of waste and save a lot of money by shaking up those big clamshell packages of prewashed salad mi...

At Eat Well, Eat Cheap, we aim to offer recipes that combine deliciousness, frugality, and healthiness. This one, for fettucine bathed in c...

We intended to run Teresa Bobbitt 's recipe for the Polish soup barszcz before Christmas, because it's traditionally served on Chri...

The current issue of Fine Cooking magazine takes on the always-challenging subject of how to feed a group that includes both carnivores and...

Anybody who loves Thai food has a special fondness for pad Thai, the most popular dish in the Thai repertoire. When prepared properly, thi...

When we're celebrating an occasion, we like to have a special meal livened up with something we either haven't cooked before or some...

Sometimes a recipe calls for a pre-sauce, an ingredient you have to make before you start cooking. This requirement may send you looking for...

Once we got past the holidays, with their copious quantities of wine and cheese, we decided that some simple eating was in order— and that ...