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Food Network celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is probably best known for her Italian cooking and pasta recipes, right up there with Mario Batali.  In a recent issue of Quick and Simple magazine, Giada shared her top tips for pasta:
- Stock your pantry.  Giada’s cupboard must-haves include an assortment of dried pasta, jarred marinara sauce […]

I admit it.  The only reason I subscribe to Latina Magazine is for the recipes.  Hey, the husband is Cuban and I’m a dedicated wife, what can I say?  The other day I hit pay-dirt when I spied their recipe for Adobo-Citrus Grilled Chicken Thighs in the June/July issue. 
The recipe follows one of my favorite […]

Delicious indeed! One of my favourite dishes on the front cover - Paella with prawns and squid.
But the pic here - taken by yours truly - is of some pork marinading for Paprika Pork Skewers with Broad Bean Salad, a recipe printed on page 34. Marinade cubes, or in my case slices, of pork […]

One of my husband’s great quests is to produce perfect fries at home, and he’s very nearly there. In his book Tyler’s Ultimate, cookbook author and Food Network celebrity chef Tyler Florence offers up his take on producing perfect fries from home.
“There are two tricks to making crisp, bistro-style fries without having to heat […]

With spring break, spring cleaning and spring holidays, I find that I’m behind in some of my regular chores and activities.  One of those includes reporting on the April issue of Vegetarian Times. One recipe that really caught my attention in that issue could turn out to be a family favorite; certainly my teen-age son […]

If you’ve ever seen my personal blog, you probably won’t be shocked to hear that I am a proud subscriber to Every Day with Rachael Ray (”EDRR”) and have been since they started offering subscriptions. If you could get a prize for being one of the first to sign up, I would probably get it […]

May’s Blueprint, the Martha Stewart design-your-life publication, has a piece entitled “ Build a Better Salad“. This isn’t a new concept for an article, but it does employ the clean and sparse photography that Martha is famous for and details lots of ideas for salad components and dressings. Seeing ingredients showcased in this way should […]

After my first experience with The Complete Idiot’s Guides, I had planned to avoid this publisher at all costs.  Yet, something intrigued me about The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Juicing by Ellen Brown.  At first, I passed this title by, assuming that the purchase of an expensive juicer would be necessary.  However, when I took […]

Cuisine Gourmande is the most upscale cooking magazine of France’s culinary Trio Gourmand, published by the Prisma Presse group. At 63,020 bi-monthly issues, it is the least popular of Prisma’s three cooking titles, representing 20.6% of the “Trio’s” circulation — and only half that if we consider that Cuisine Actuelle and Guide Cuisine come out […]

I have a love-hate relationship with the June-July issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray. I love it because, well, it’s an issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray. I hate it because it covers two months, which means no issue next month. Boo. But let’s focus on the positive and check out what’s […]