The other night, I was baking a sheet of puff pastry for a veggie-topped refrigerator pizza. Time got away from me, and I got the puff pastry out of the [ … ]
Host A Food Swap Party: Five Ideas For Themes You’ll Love
Don’t have time to try new recipes? Want to have homemade value-added products on hand, but don’t have the time to make them all? The next time you and a [ … ]
Boxed Wine Trends Up With Eco-Friendly Packaging
I’ve had a few run-ins with boxed wine in my day, mostly in college, and they’re experiences I’d care not to revisit. But when I visited a local wine shop [ … ]
Five Essential Kitchen Tools (And Four Extremely Handy Others)
Buying what you need for a kitchen can be daunting. Visit any kitchen or discount store and you’ll see gizmos and gadgets galore, many of which look like medieval torture [ … ]
What’s Your Favorite Lunch? Comment and Win!
My husband says that figuring out what he’s going to pack in his lunch is one of the most frustrating parts of his day. Me? I have no problem packing [ … ]
Celebrate The End of Summer With Watermelon Agua Fresca Recipe
Summer’s fleeting, but we’ll undoubtedly still have a few hot days and men are still selling watermelons off trucks by a gas station near my house. I love watermelon, and [ … ]
Extra Zucchini? Try This Recipe!
Many home gardeners gratefully complain about having too much zucchini during the summer once their plants’ fruits ripen. They just don’t have enough to do with it. In my house, [ … ]
Five Cool Things To Do With Herbs
You’ve got that garden of herbs, in containers, in your windowsill, in your garden. You’ve made basil pesto, and added some parsley or oregano to pasta sauces. Well, there’s more [ … ]
Eat Well Guide Publishes Free Slow Food Resource
The Eat Well Guide, an online resource for finding sustainable, local, and organic produce, released Cultivating the Web, a free publication that helps foodies navigate the vast online resources available [ … ]
Make Iced Coffee At Home, Feel Heart Beat Out of Chest
I’m a coffee addict. When it gets too hot in the summer, I’ll stop drinking hot and make myself some iced. There’s several schools of thought on making iced coffee [ … ]
Welcome to Thrifty Thursdays!
We’re starting a new weekly feature at Eat.Drink.Better. It’s called Thrifty Thursdays, and will offer a quick time- or money-saving tip for your kitchen. Eating good food that also has [ … ]
Slow Food Nation Hits San Francisco
Slow Food USA is hosting its first-ever Slow Food Nation convention this weekend in San Francisco, and boy, do I wish I could be there. Not only is San Francisco [ … ]
Try Sunchokes In Your Next Recipe
You may have seen some brown, knobby tubers at your local farmers market recently. No, that’s not ginger, they’re sunchokes, also known as Jerusalem artichokes, but they’re really nothing like [ … ]