I haven’t made my chicken paprikas in a long time but the chicken has been waiting in the freezer. You have to have it with dumplings so I’d best cover dumpling-making in preparation. In Hungarian...

It struck me yesterday that anything we perceive as difficult is very easy to people who already know how to do it. So, many of the things you know how to do and think are easy, are actually difficult...

My daughter saw spring rolls on a magazine cover and wanted to try making them. She read the ingredients and we didn’t have many of them; I think it was to the point where we hadn’t heard of a few. To...

This week I’m in the process of filling holes in the kitchen walls with patching plaster so it will take time away from my food research, but every once in a while I have to pitch in around here...

I’m calling this slow cooker stew “beef Marsala” because there’s red wine in it, but I’m really not bothering to use Marsala wine. Feel free to use whatever red you have or even leave it...

I saw a picture of a quiche in Vegetarian Times (Sept. 2014, pg. 64) that used phyllo dough for the crust and it looked quite pretty. I often find that phyllo dough ends up making a mess during...

Next on the menu for using up red pepper and celery was Tony’s American classic – tuna noodle casserole. Yes, we had two almost identical (in terms of the béchamel sauce) casseroles this week...

I never know whether to call the crock pot a slow cooker, so I try to use both names in each post; but a crock pot is really the thing my mom had when I was a kid. It’s a self-contained crock...

Determined to make a somewhat healthy but still irresistible carrot cake for my son’s birthday, it took me a couple tries to figure out a recipe. I’ve learned that it’s important when using coconut...

My favorite way of having pork chops is breaded and baked because that’s how my Grandma made them, although I rarely cook pork. Today I was trying to use up stuff in the freezer and pulled out pork...

Maybe this is a Maryland thing, or at least the mid-Atlantic region, but everywhere you go they serve cream of crab soup. Some of the soups have sherry or white wine in them, and some have a lot of...

It’s Tony’s night on the meal schedule and he signed up for toasts for dinner – not toast, thank goodness! Toast would not cut it for me in the Breakfast-for-Dinner category. Here is a trendy cookbook...