Wow Chow Cooking

Mmm I love crisps, especially crisps with cranberries in them. A dollop of vanilla ice cream on top of warm crisp is SO luscious!! It’s a terrific comfort food, especially after a long, cold winter’s day at the office, or for the weary housewife who has been haggling over term life insurance comparisons all day. [...]

We all make mistakes in the kitchen. Some more than others *cough cough*. I have an entire book devoted to those “oops!” moments when I’ve added too much salt or have run out of sugar and the guests are here for tea. Here are a few handy-dandy tips for hearth and home that you may [...]

I make these Bavarian Cream-Filled Eclairs every year about this time of year, and they are so easy it’s mind-boggling. I take them to meetings, and they are gobbled up very quickly. The only thing to know is that they do not keep well– serve them within a few hours of making them, or they [...]

My pal Carole asked if anyone had any ideas for banana bread, and it reminded me that I’ve never posted my Banana Bread recipe here! I love banana bread, but banana bread seems pretty basic to me. You can add chocolate chips or nuts, yeah, but the recipe does not deviate all that much. Years [...]

I am in the process of adding all my blogs into Amazon’s Kindle, and I am happy to announce that Wow Chow Cooking is in! It’s really easy to enter your blog into the system, and you can make a little money on the side (and I mean a LITTLE– like, 30 cents for every [...]

Cool weather is here, hurray! I rarely cook in the summer (except for grilling), but now that autumn is on the way, I am getting the “cooking bug” once again. And right now, apples are everywhere. The kids have been busy picking, peeling, and dicing apples for our freezer. All winter long, I have access [...]

My bread machine died. This is my second machine. I have only had this one about a year and a half, and I didn’t even use it for half a year! Today, I filled up the bucket, added all the ingredients, went to start it, and *grind*. photo credit: Otto Phokus We got a closer [...]

I just love autumn! It’s cooler, it’s crisper, the air smells glorious, and my apple tree has produced fruit! Yay!!! What a wonderful crop so far! The boys volunteered to harvest the fruit, and then they volunteered to peel and dice the apples! This is because they knew what awaited them if they did: Apple [...]

In the summer, I don’t do a lot of creative cooking. I may slap some meat and veggies on the grill with some funky seasoning, but life is too busy to fuss in the kitchen during the summer. Autumn, however, is a different matter. The crispy, chilled air and the abundance of garden produce really [...]