Anna Roth
Lack of time, cooking for crowds, and unfamiliar ingredients can turn the cheeriest cook into a Grinch. This year, let eHow Food put the joy back in your holiday with Simplify the Season , our comprehensive holiday guide packed with tips, tricks, and practical advice to make your next few months a little easier.
Are you searching for a new spin on stuffing? An easy recipe for sugar cookies? Or simply how long to roast a turkey? We’re here with mouthwatering menu ideas, recipes, slideshows, and how-to videos to help you master the basics — so you
Our own Evette Rios makes her debut on The Chew this afternoon — the new daytime food talk show hosted by culinary heavyweights like Mario Batali and Michael Symon. Evette will be a reporting correspondent, covering food, entertaining and design stories around the country. Today’s segment — which I was lucky enough to see earlier that the super-fun live taping — features some awesome and cheap room makeover tips.
We caught up with Evette and got the scoop on what it’s like to be on a national talk show.
What was your most memorable behind-the-scenes moment from filming The
I woke up this morning with a serious craving for Louisa Shafia’s mashed chickpea salad, her healthier take on tuna salad that swaps in chickpeas for the fish. We recently filmed her making it as part of an upcoming series on easy, good-for-you weeknight meals, but it was so good I can’t wait for the video to be posted to share it.
The assembly is simple: Take a can of chickpeas (preferably organic), wash and drain them, then mash them with a fork until they form a paste. Add your favorite tuna salad seasonings — celery, lemon, scallions, mayo (Louisa
Our resident meat and man food expert Josh Ozersky is throwing a big party in Brooklyn on Saturday: Meatopia, the self-proclaimed “Woodstock of Edible Animals.”
This Bacchanalian blowout will feature 48 of the most talented meat chefs in the country, cooking pretty much every meat under the sun. Several animals will be roasted on spits. Offal will have a healthy presence. It will be nearly impossible to leave without trying something new … but for the faint of heart, there will be carnivore classics like ribs, pulled-pork sandwiches and jerk chicken. (Check out the full menu and list of
Bold cabernets and spicy syrahs have their time and place (paired with a thick stew or braise, perhaps in front of a roaring fire), but during the dog days of summer, most agree that wine is a drink best served cold.
Lately, though, we’ve been wondering: Beyond its proximity to the refrigerator case, what else should we be looking for when picking the perfect bottle for a balmy evening?
We caught up with Jordan Salcito, wine director at Crown restaurant in Manhattan, to get a professional sommelier’s take on the best wines for warm weather.
“I like to drink
I’m generally a fan of food served on a stick. Corn dogs: One of life’s most pleasurable guilty pleasures. Satay sticks: Well-engineered for dipping in peanut sauce. Caramel apples: Messy, but the contrast of sticky-sweet caramel and tart-juicy apple makes them worth it.
Cake pops, though, I just didn’t get.
If you haven’t been following the ups and downs of the pastry world, cake pops are the latest Big Thing. They’re sort of a postmodern cupcake — a ball of cake scraps mixed with frosting, coated with a candy shell, and served on a stick. The trend is generally credited
There’s something undeniably luxurious about drinking on a warm, lazy summer afternoon — those rare idyllic days when your to-do list only contains two items: lighting up the grill and slapping on some burgers. But daytime drinking also has its hazards, as anyone who’s been victim of the 9 p.m. hangover can attest. Relax with my prescription for no-consequence drinks made for summer days.
Vinho Verde
Called “green wine” because it’s bottled very young, vinho verde is a grassy, bone-dry, slightly effervescent white wine from Portugal. I’ve been obsessed for years, thanks to its relatively low alcohol content and $3.99
So we slide into February, the month of reckoning for the third of Americans who have already broken their
New Year’s resolutions. (Shamefully, I am one of them. My resolutions lasted less than a week.)
Good news!
Chinese New Year gives those of us who have fallen from grace a chance for redemption. Also known as Lunar New Year, the festivities start on the first day of the first new moon of the year (Feb. 3 this year) and last for the next 15 days, which are full of celebration, ancestral recognition and feasting. Lots and lots of feasting.
