If you want the taste of homemade with the convenience of prepared, try for a middle ground with stuffing. Start with a 14-ounce bag of herbed stuffing mix, then saute whatever you enjoy. Onions, celery and fresh herbs are an obvious start.
Is it safe to party when swine flu threatens to crash your bash?
Puff n' stuff: Jelly, chocolate-filled marshmallows make the snack scene. If you're still using plain old vanilla marshmallows at your campfire or in your cocoa, you're out of touch.
Chickens, fresh apples and other local foods can give indigestion to local officials. Chickens finally can roost legally in Bozeman, Mont.
Television and peers can trump parents when it comes to influencing what children eat, but that doesn't mean families can't fight back.
The Twittering Gourmet: Rocco DiSpirito cookbook relies on feedback from Twitter and Facebook. Twitter and Facebook are helping Rocco DiSpirito write his new cookbook.
Looks gourmet, tastes like burger: Fast food gets haute makeover on FancyFastFood.com. At FancyFastFood.com, dashboard dining gets a serious ? and seriously upscale ? makeover.
Meat in your drink? Carnivorous cocktails mean a nice cold glass of bacon. First you cook the bacon, remove the fat and tear it into pieces. It sounds like the start of a nice breakfast, but it's actually the first part of mixologist Adam Seger's Baconcello recipe. The next step is steeping the bacon in vodka for 72 hours.
Beyond tools, techniques, Julia Child's legacy may be spirit, humor. From the timesaving tools and French techniques she loved to a famously dropped dinner, Julia Child left a lasting impression on a generation of cooks.
Want to be health conscious and a red meat lover? Try bison.
Complaints about headaches and heart palpitations persist. But so does monosodium glutamate.
The Four Seasons: NY 'power lunch' mecca turns 50, with guests from Dalai Lama to Madonna. The Dalai Lama. Madonna. Bill Clinton. Mary J. Blige. And a 13-year-old celebrating his bar mitzvah, complete with scantily clad dancers his father hired to usher the teen into manhood.
Fear of swine flu is a good reason to wash your hands, but not to take pork off the menu.
Missy Chase Lapine's newest cookbook includes a chapter on holiday recipes, but in her kitchen, every day is April Fool's Day.
Gold in them thar' hills: High syrup prices spur run on maple sugar. For years, Errol Tabacco was a maple sugar hobbyist. Each February, he'd tap about 100 trees on his property, haul buckets of sap to his garage and boil it into syrup for his family and friends.
Americans. Always rushing, skipping meals, grabbing food on the go. Right?
A massive salmonella-triggered recall of foods that might contain contaminated peanuts has the whole nation looking askance at foods once noshed with abandon.
Finding peanut butter isn't always easy: Some common foods that contain peanut products. Some common foods that contain peanuts and peanut products:
Angela Shelf Medearis sees big changes in African-American cuisine over the last decade or so.
shopping at Whole Foods.
