Anybody who gets Chinese, Thai, or Indian takeout ends up with containers of leftover rice that tend to dry up, forgotten and neglected, on ...

Our friends Chuck and Sandy have a plot in a community garden that is producing loads of tomatoes. (This is in stark contrast to our own thr...

As we've noted , although sage flourishes in the summer, it tends to be used in autumn and winter recipes, and often in its dried state...

Because we make a lot of Caesar salads, we end up with a lot of leftover egg whites. We can't stand to waste them, so we put them in a b...

Ro Ann Redlin has come through again for Eat Well, Eat Cheap with this recipe for tomatoes topped with vinaigrette and blue cheese. It make...

For some reason most people we know are hesitant to buy wines on the Internet. Some states won't let Internet dealers — or any direct se...

Last winter guest blogger Jim Randall posted a recipe for Sunflower Snappers . They sounded delicious, but we only got around to trying the...

For decades we thoughtlessly tossed handfuls of fried pine nuts into salads and pestos, without giving a thought to price. True, a one-pound...

For years, it seems, we've been reading about muhammara, a Middle Eastern dip made from roasted red peppers, walnuts, breadcrumbs, and p...

For us, grilling season never ends. We fire up the grill in snowstorms, thunderstorms, and even pitch blackness, armed with our trusty snake...

Given our unavoidable vegetarian bias, we realize that Eat Well, Eat Cheap has been more than a bit scanty on meat recipes. We've tried ...

Sorry for the scanty postings, but we've been out of town for the past week. We'll be up and running again tomorrow. In the meantime...

Like everybody else on the East Coast, we're wilting in a vicious heat wave, and we're a little worried about our plants. Will the d...

Amazingly, our potted sage plant survived last winter's low temperatures and six feet of snow. After the thaw, we moved the plant to our...

The 2010 Fancy Food Show has wrapped up in New York City, and while some of the offerings fall into the head-scratching or just plain ...

Over the weekend  Salon ran an i nteresting recipe for eggplant-based pasta sauce, written by a former eggplant hater. Admittedly, eggplant...

June in Virginia is jaw-droppingly hot, and yesterday the temperature topped 100 degrees. By dinnertime we could not bring ourselves to use ...

Being cholesterol-minded people, we aren't big egg eaters, but every once in a while, we indulge—with a holiday soufflé , or when we wan...

We've been excitedly waiting for Susie Middleton's vegetable cookbook, Fast, Fresh & Green , ever since we heard that she was wr...

We should be happy with our improved food choices in Virginia—not just a wider range of groceries but an excellent selection of farmers'...

A while back , we questioned whether it was worth investing in wine-aerating devices such as the Rabbit Pourer . Yesterday Tim's brother...

When we moved from Connecticut to Virginia, we looked forward to a longer growing season and more local produce. But we were sad to leave ou...

On a recent trip to Idaho, we had to buy a case of wine for a charity auction at an industry conference. The town liquor store didn't se...

We love mangos, especially on a hot summer day. But we don't love dealing with mango pits, which take up a lot of valuable space inside ...

Walk down the condiments aisle of your local supermarket and you'll see an amazing array of barbecue sauces, ranging from sticky-sweet t...

The label pictured above is slightly incorrect. The wine we're discussing today is the JT Cellars Chardonnay from the Central Coast, not...

This quiet little inexpensive bottle of wine from the Central Coast of California that costs $7.99 (some places $7.49) has an incredible rat...

Sorry about the scanty number of recent posts, but this has been a deadline-heavy week and we've just now eked out enough time to check...

We spent much of Memorial Day weekend at the shore, marinating in salt air and sunshine. As if to commemorate the onset of summer, the tempe...

We've all done it—forgotten to buy an ingredient for our recipe or noticed at the last minute that we were out of something we needed. W...

We aren't huge fans of most of the Food Network's shows, because even when the food looks good, it tends to contain horrific levels ...

At Starbucks and other upscale  coffee joints, chai lattes provide a lower-caffeine alternative to espresso drinks, but they're very exp...

When traveling, we rarely pass up an opportunity to taste the local fare. We can't remember too many times when a local dish disappoint...

While the French and Italians label their wine primarily according to region, Americans (North and South) tend to label by grape varietal. T...