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 [...]

I am blogging this menu in the hopes that I will remember it and turn back to it later this week. I always start out so well on Monday, but come Friday, my meal planning is a disaster. I just get so busy and forget! I’m very excited to be trying a few new recipes [...]

Talk about information overload. I hate eating out when we travel! It’s a huge, huge task to find a good place to eat. I do tons of research before we go, tons more when we arrive, and then tons more after I see the REAL condition of the restaurant we chose! It’s just so hard [...]

I don’t have a photo. Sorry. I was too busy juggling this huge mound of fried fish and briskly walking toward Broadway to get my bus. After doing a little research on where to eat for our trip to NYC, we decided to try out the Famous Fish Market “restaurant” on St. Nicholas Ave in [...]

So we got an early spring. Which effectively quashed my cooking spree. I was a COOKING GAL, making stews and soups and roasts and making fresh broths and and and….. ….and *pop* it’s all gone. The weather has been downright balmy here in Upstate New York. Who wants to cook now?! Not me! My daughter [...]

I found this website purely by chance, doing a search for apple cobbler. Oh my word, how could I have missed this site before?! It’s Taste of Home. I’m sure you have heard of it– it’s a site based on the popular magazine. i used to get the magazine but stopped when the subscription cost [...]

As much as I adore Thanksgiving Day, I really only do the most basic of dinners. I stick with the boring old traditional meal: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, a vegetable, pumpkin pie. Christmas, however, is much different. Christmas is cozier, the holiday week is longer. For example, I only have ONE day to prepare for [...]

As amazing and vast as the Internet is, I just can’t seem to find *the perfect* cooking website. It’s so different with cookbooks– do you have a favorite cookbook from which you cook ALL the time? I do, I have several. But it’s not so with recipe websites. Maybe because they are usually built around [...]

As much as I regale the marvels of fresh, non-processed foods, I do serve them. A little TOO frequently, in my opinion. Oh, we’ve made some advances, but no way do we eat salads and fruit slices all day. Wow, that’s actually a TON of work, time I wish I had, lol! So we do [...]

I don’t know, it seems kind of early for apple season. Or maybe September has just kind of caught up to me very quickly…. at any rate, all my local news outlets are reporting that Upstate New York has a bumper crop of apples this year! What’s really amazing is that the apples survived the [...]