First off, apologies for the long post drought. How long has it been? So long that Blogger switched up the formatting while we were gone a...

Guest blogger Amy Friedman coined the wonderful term "schleppy fruit" to describe fruit that has gone around the bend: mealy appl...

We attended a birthday party recently where one of the guests brought a delicious roasted beet and goat cheese dip. Even the beet-haters lo...

For a recent dinner, our friend Chris Stinson dispensed with flowers and made a beautiful centerpiece featuring ruffly green kale, svelte re...

We thought we knew every edible grain that the planet had to offer, but guest blogger Amy Friedman proved us wrong. Check out her recipe fo...

Are you as sick of balsamic vinegar salad dressings as we are? Don't get us wrong—the mellow, aged vinegar is wonderful stuff, but we un...

Mark Bittman's recipe for No-Knead Bread may end up being his greatest legacy to cooking. Removing the tedious chore of kneading from b...

Yes, vinegar is plentiful and often cheap if you buy it in the store. And we do: rice, sherry, balsamic, pear, you name it. But we've ha...

Today's New York Times Dining section has a wonderful story on mindful eating that ranges from the techniques of Buddhist monks to eve...

We would find it hard to believe that the Super Bowl crept up on anyone, but let's imagine for a minute that the host of a party got sic...

 "Drink good wines habitually and fine wine occasionally." —Andre L. Simon, wine writer and author of A Concise Encyclopedia of Ga...

We saw a clever idea for a dinner party in the latest issue of Wine Enthusiast magazine . Use your special gourmet cookware or some other no...

As a blog that preaches “eat cheap,” and exalts good wines costing less than $10, Eat Well, Eat Cheap doesn’t get much of a c...

Gawker says it better than we ever could.

The pantry project continues apace! We've had a jar of pearl barley kicking around the shelves for a long time; even though we love barl...

In looking for a barley recipe (to use some of the multiple bags of grains in our overstuffed pantry  as part of our pantry-reduction proje...

That may not be the most appetizing post title, but it's true: determined to keep making compost during the slow winter months, we'v...

Not too long ago we decided to concentrate on using up our pantry supplies , and although we made a fair amount of progress, our shelves sti...

The holidays are a time that we mostly think about eating well in a context that we don't typically mean it here at Eat Well, Eat Cheap...

The holidays are right for cranberries. They help cut through the typical celebratory turkey, gravy and spuds. The stores are full of cranb...

This is our favorite cookie all year around. Our version of the chocolate chip classic. But cooking.com is suggesting 10 other cookies fo...

Michael Pollan, who has written three of the most important food books of the recent past — Omnivore's Dilemma ,  Food Rules , and In D...

Few foods are better for you than sweet potatoes. Yet many people  associate the yellow spuds only with maple syrup and marshmallows at holi...

Here's a great — and quick — appetizer that will satisfy cheese lovers and also guests with a sweet tooth at the same time. It comes fr...

Here's another recipe video from John Ross. He made it for Fine Cooking, the magazine and website. It features pears and cauliflower in ...

This beautiful banana photo was taken by our friend John Ross, an up-and-coming food videographer whose recipe videos we have featured here ...

If you're in a quandary about wine for Thanksgiving dinner, here's a last minute tip that'll get you by with the dozen or so peo...

Ro Ann Redlin  sent us this wonderful sounding—and wonderfully named—recipe in August, when tomatoes were ripening on the vines, and we'...

It seems that for our entire cooking lives we've heard, "Nothing cooks better than a cast-iron pan." But we associated cast-ir...

Actually, this may be a pointless post, as we are possibly the last people on earth to have figured out that there's nothing easier, a...

This liquid sweetener is less sweet than honey or maple syrup, with a rich caramel flavor that works well in many desserts. The other night ...

This photo pretty much shows how we feel when we consider our poor blogging output of the past month or so. But we hope to get some new post...

Sorry for the long drought of blog posts—it's our damn jobs; they really cut into our free time! Anyway, it's good to be back, and w...

We have for some time admired the red Réserve from Château de Nages . A Syrah and Grenache blend from the Rhône, it is a superb bargain at...