Wow Chow Cooking

I guess I need a new rice cooker. The one I have, a Black & Decker model that I reviewed at my New York Renovator blog, is still working wonderfully and I have no complaints…. except for the non-stick coating. It’s taken a beating recently. I think someone threw a bunch of silverware in the [...]

Homeopathy, or the practice of using home remedies to treat diseases, is becoming increasingly popular. I also turn to natural, home remedies before I turn to drugs. I greatly dislike the Big Pharma industry and I think that drugs actually do more harm than good in many cases (side effects and all). Of course, sometimes [...]

Every week I am going to try posting a tentative menu plan. Right now, everything is usually scrawled all over half dozen sticky notes, and we all know how organized those can be. :-p So maybe by posting things here, I won’t forget what on earth I’m making for dinner 5 days ahead! If you [...]

I just started purchasing eggs from a local farmer, a certified organic farm. The eggs are a little pricier than grocery-store eggs, but I am happy to directly support a local farm (and get fresh eggs, too). I wish we could have our own chickens. I live in the suburbs, though, and chickens are verboten. [...]

I can’t say I am terribly fond of baked ziti. It tends to be dry and a bit tasteless to me. I am very find of Italian dishes but baked ziti seems to be very… American. lol. American style is great for a citizen watch or architecture, but I think American food tends to be [...]

We got a free quart of coconut oil from Tropical Traditions (see my review at Freaky Frugalite) and the stuff is pretty good! In the review, I mentioned that we’ve used the oil predominantly for cookies. Well, my daughter recently used the oil to grease the skillet for making scrambled eggs. Talk about creative, huh? [...]

Fellow Upstater Jenn at Frugal Upstate has a wonderfully fun post about what you can do –edible stuff — with the inconspicuous little violet. It’s really nice to know that I REALLY can go out to graze and get nourishment! And look at my yard, just RIPE for the picking! Seriously, I’ve heard of narcissus [...]

I’m leaning towards skipping a vegetable garden this year. I’m quite discouraged about the yard after the flooding (again). You can read all the reasons here at my old house home improvement blog, I really don’t want to go over it all. So I think I’ll be relying on farmer’s markets this year. I’m not [...]

My son is so creative with his food sometimes. He made me oatmeal. Isn’t he so sweet? I tell him he should be a cook. Or maybe a car mechanic. That way, I won’t have to fork out the thousands to have my car fixed. Yeah. Too many young people want careers in computers today. [...]

My mind did a few freaky little somersaults after reading this headline today: Nationwide study finds U.S. meat and poultry is widely contaminated. :-O The Translational Genomics Research Institute in Arizona performed tests on meat and poultry in several grocery stores throughout the country, and discovered that half of all meat tested were tainted with [...]