There was a time when Nancy Eller struggled to make an omelet. “I never had any luck making a presentable omelet until I tried this recipe for a plastic-bag omelet. It works perfectly with little cleanup,” she said.
The first recipe kids learn is scrambled eggs. We all did. It’s the easiest stove work not involving knives, but we soon learned it’s also the easiest to screw up.
Bay State beer drinkers have a lot to look forward to in 2009, as several breweries around the country have new and interesting beers ready to be poured into your favorite glass.
Potatoes and cheese. Apples and pork. Chocolate and mint. Some flavors are commonly paired in recipes because they have a natural affinity. But what is the next tomato and basil?
Homemade rolls tend to be hard, crusty and large, and can kill your appetite. If you’re ready for something different in the dinner roll department, soft and small pillow rolls are a worthy adventure.
Paella (pi-AYE-yuh), from Spain, is a casserole of saffron yellow rice with seafood, sausage and chicken. Vegetables may be onions, artichoke hearts, garlic, peas and possibly tomatoes.
Going into 2008, brewers really did not know what to expect - there was a worldwide hop shortage, and the cost of malts, gasoline and pretty much everything else needed for brewing shot through the roof. But overall, 2008 was a good year for beer. Several breweries produced new and wonderful beers and better-beer drinkers were not left wanting anything more.
Each year, the National Restaurant Association surveys professional chefs — this year 1,609 of them — about trends they expect to see in the coming year.
If a New Year’s Eve get-together is on your to-do list and you don’t want to spend the last day of 2008 trapped in the kitchen, it’s not to late to simplify your menu into a smorgasbord of hors d’oeuvres and dips.
Friends, food, refrigerator pals -- lend me your ears. I have come to bury you, not to praise you. The evil that you do lives after you, on my waistline.
Denise Nanni seeks the nutrition information for food when she dines out. It’s one step in her plan to stay healthy after being diagnosed as diabetic 14 years ago.
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