Is your extended family like ours? For better or for worse, there are certain dishes that always, always appear at large holiday gatherings. My Aunt Di has been making her famous broccoli salad since I can remember. It ain’t gourmet, and there are a lot of different versions of this salad out there, but hers is the best, hands down.

Aunt Di brings this broccoli salad each Thanksgiving and Easter and it is a real crowd pleaser. As we inch ever so closer to summer, keep this recipe handy for a quick potluck item or picnic salad.
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I realized the other day that my purpose and tool may be different, but the method is the same... [more]

Any chef could use a time saver or two…especially a time saver that doesn’t sacrifice the taste or flavor of your food.

Steaming/Boiling Multitasking:

A simple trick...when you are boiling pasta, take a colander and place it over the boiling water to steam whatever vegetable you might need to cook.

Saves time, saves energy, saves water...another way to go green in the kitchen...while steaming up something green.

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I spent the first two-thirds of my life refusing to eat any seafood that didn't come from the Gordon Fisherman. I remember moving to the East Coast as a fresh college graduate and wondering how anyone could eat all the different types of seafood offered locally. These are the same types of seafood I now gobble up at any opportunity.

But despite my now fervent love of seafood, I still usually defer to SPH for any home cooking of seafood. I am determined to increase my seafood confidence in the kitchen and this new recipe I tried last week has helped me on my mission. [more]

In a perfect world, whenever SPH and I wanted to go out to dinner, we would have a sitter and we would enjoy a wonderful meal. Alone. In an almost perfect world, we would take the boys with us and they would be on their “very best behavior” and we’d dine in perfect harmony, all four of us. [more]