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I personally love my crockpot and use it at least 2 or 3 times per week. As a freelance writer who works from home, using my crockpot makes it possible for me to be able to stay at home and eat healthy, rather than eat all those convenience foods which aren't so good for you. Here are the best reasons for using a crockpot over other methods of cooking, or eating out...
Read moreThe founder of GlobalGormet.com, which is one of the first cooking sites on the Internet, and more recently NewGreenBasics.com, Kate Heyhoe has written several cookbooks. But it's her latest book, Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen -- the New Green Basics Way, that tackles HOW you cook. Which, she says, is just as important as WHAT you cook.
Read moreOn Shameless Chefs, Shameless Dave and Shameless John show up at a house where only the person who invited them knows they're coming. They surprise the other guests and then get to work in the kitchen -- sometimes pulling the guests in with them. Don't miss their videos... and recipes!
Read moreThe best part: everything from meats and vegetables to desserts can be made in a pressure cooker. In the end, your food is cooked in one-third the time, and it's much frsher tasting than microwaved food.
Read moreThe Guy Grub Guy has a kitchen that looks more like a hardware store. He cooks in a shop apron and wears a hard hat. And he uses the tools you have in your garage in his kitchen when preparing recipes. That's what most of his videos are about too: how to use things like pliers, saws and hammers as cooking utensils. Don't miss this!
Read moreA collection of the best ways to organize recipes, including recipes you've found online, in magazines, and on recipe cards. Lots of do-it-yourself ideas, plus links to the most popular recipe software programs.
Read moreCheck out all 4,000 food inventions that were submitted for the Dining in 2015 contest and let me know what you think! Judges were looking for the most interesting designs in cutlery, tableware, cookware, and cooking tools.
Read moreFix My Recipe is where regular, everyday home cooks can submit to the website recipes they may have once had right, or recipes that might have been handed down from a relative, but when they cook them now they come out all wrong. You know you have a few of those. Chef Billy Parisi then turns your recipe into a cooking video!
Read moreCook Yourself Thin is a British favorite that Lifetime Television is bringing to our shores this spring. The first season is 20 episodes and will show viewers how to eat foods they like, that taste good, and that will help them lose weight.
Read moreChances are you're not going to find a cooking video that will have you laughing like Average Betty's will. Average Betty does for cooking what Saturday Night Live does for the nightly news. The meat of the recipe is there, but the video is really more of a comedy sketch. The result has made Average Betty an Internet celebrity of sorts.
Read moreI will be interested to see how this works for Bravo. Top Chef has grown into the top-rated cooking show on cable, but I think it's harder for viewers to connect with celebrity chefs than it is for us to connect with average foodies, like you and me.
Read moreThe iPhone can now help you make dinner. Or lunch. Or a snack! Kraft has released iFood Assistant. It cost 99 cents and has quickly become one of the top 100 apps for the iPhone!
Read moreCasting calls are now underway across the country for the 6th season of Top Chef on Bravo TV. Here are the dates and information for the following cities: Seattle WA, Atlanta GA, New York NY, Philadelphia PA, Los Angeles CA, and Chicago IL.
Read moreBeing a simple girl, not to mention frugal, I like serving dishes that are simple in design and serve more than one function -- like serving as food storage containers as well! Here are my favorites, including some unique options for lids.
Read moreI like to get creative with recipes and ham is such a great meat, you can add it to just about anything and have it taste good. Here are some fun things you can do with leftover ham, including lots of great and tasty ham recipes.
Read moreHere are LOTS of ways to improve on the traditional Campbell's green bean casserole recipe. More variations and modifications than you can imagine -- to make this year's green bean casserole even better!
Read moreRegardless of the reason your food is left to thaw to room temperature, the following tips will help you decide what to keep, what to cook, and what to throw away.
Read moreHere are some ways to use leftover turkey in creative, fun, and appetizing ways... Lots of turkey recipes that will put your leftover holiday turkey to good use!
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