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What's a good tip for new cooks?While you're preheating your stove-top to cook a thick piece of beef, poultry, or fish, preheat your oven at the same time. After you've developed a nice golden crust on your meat of choice, transfer it to a baking sheet and stick it in your already-heated oven. While your food is baking, you can make an easy pan sauce by adding wine, citrus juice, or broth to the skillet you used for browning your meat. Do you have any cooking disaster stories?One holiday season, my college roommates and I decided to make a variety of holiday candy. We bought all the ingredients to make fudge, peanut brittle, peanut clusters, and caramel, and started making everything in the tiny kitchen of our even tinier apartment. Not only was the kitchen too small, it wasn't well-stocked. With so many treats being prepared at once, the first batch of peanut brittle was scorched. We ran out of spoons, bowls, and pans, and began to improvise with whatever we could find. It all worked out well in the end, though. While delivering the holiday treats, I met the man who would become my husband. If you could have anyone to dinner, who would you have?My family. A great dish to cook would be the Harvest Pork Roast—it serves a crowd, tastes great, and most of the work is done before guests arrive. |
Culinary Specialist 
Eat a wide variety of foods and you'll get a wide variety of nutrients. 
Virginia Woolf said it well: "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." |
