New Year's Day, at our house, is an honored holiday. We have a very specific set of rituals. They include staying in pajamas all day long, having friends over to watch "The Twilight Zone" marathon and recover from the previous night's festivities, drinking the leftover champagne in the form of ...

My friend SJ and I do a cooking extravaganza every year before Christmas. We try to put together some tasties to give out to friends and family in lieu of purchased gifts, which usually end up in a closet or forgotten because, really, who needs another egg slicer? Who needed one to begin with, ...

We love pasta in this house, in all forms. I try to have some sort of Italian dish in the rotation most weeks, and happy as Mr. Meat and Potatoes would be with saucy, cheesy, sausage-y noodles several nights a week, I like to mix it up a bit. I'm not a big fan of alfredo (I know, take away ...

Mr. Meat and Potatoes asks at least once a week for a taco night. He prefers a straight-up ground beef, hard shell with the traditional fixins, which I have no problem with, but sometimes a girl just has to have something different. Last week, I had a hankering for enchiladas, but I ...

Don't you hate it when a plan doesn't come together? Recently, I had a hankering for a certain dish I used to make in my early days of cooking, one I hadn't made for several years and had all but been removed from my repertoire: chicken Kiev. There was a recipe in my first cookbook, the ...

I got a piece of fan mail once. I really did! This lovely woman, in her letter, said words that I have taken as my catchphrase: "I love to cook, and I cook to love." Indeed, that is what it all seems to be about, doesn't it? Even if it's a tuna casserole kind of night, it's made with love. ...