How to cook mussels in 5 easy steps
Most people haven't cooked many — if any — mussels in their lifetimes. Just the sight of that little cluster of blue-black shells is sometimes enough to send one scurrying...
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Prep School: How to make ceviche
For the uninitiated, ceviche is pronounced seh-vee-chay, and it's a cool, citrusy seafood dish associated with Central and South America. You may have heard that ceviche is a lot like...
How to grill fish
Like all things you've never done before, grilling fish can be ... challenging. Don't expect perfection your first time out; do expect to learn and improve with every go-round. Why...
How to make soft pretzels
If I had to guess, the fact that you're carving time from your busy day to read this suggests you may be new to this whole "how to make pretzels...
How to cook lobster tail
Don't get me wrong; I love lobster. Still, that armed and armored sea-spider, klaxon red and steaming on the platter can be frightening. Which is why some of us with...
Is homemade pasta the next sourdough bread? We can only hope. Here’s how to make it.
Welp, it's nigh on a full year since the world as we knew it threw in the towel, leaving us masked and quarantined on Planet Freakazoid. Now, I don't know...
Waste not: How to save money (and the planet) by using kitchen scraps
I should come clean about a recent New Year's resolution, the one where I swore to contemporize my cultural references. I have failed. Miserably. Which brings us to the irrepressible...
Your cooking resolutions for 2021: Resolve to cook more good food by starting with simple goals
Speaking of home cooking, I was strolling through a cemetery the other day, the historic Graceland on Chicago's North Side. Holy cripes on toast, you should see the monuments. This...
Having a smaller Thanksgiving this year? Here’s how to stuff and roast a succulent turkey breast or braise some legs.
I'm sure the Germans have a word for it. Something like "Gerstelugenfechten." You know what I'm talking about: that guilty relief you feel from having been absolved, by virtue of...
How to cook without a net: Watch, practice, learn and embrace the flops
Oh, how we've fallen. Why, twern't too long ago that, come supper time, Pa would tote his shootin' arn out the back forty and fill a couple varmints with enough...