COOKING VIDEO: Baked Chicken Wings For The Super Bowl

  Want to serve fresh, hot chicken wings at your Super Bowl party? In this video, the chef demonstrates how easy it is to bake chicken wings and offers options for two different sauces: one based on Peruvian peri-peri sauce, the other on Thai sriracha sauce.         Now, you don’t have to…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Zest A Lemon, Lime Or Grapefruit

After you juice a grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange or other citrus, do you throw it away? If so, you’re tossing out a delicious ingredient: the zest. Zest is the outermost part of the rind/peel/skin. Before you juice the citrus, remove the zest for use in other recipes. Scraping or cutting it from the skin is…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Peel A Grapefruit Or Orange With Ease

If you enjoy grapefruit regularly, treat yourself to this snazzy double grapefruit knife. Photo courtesy RSVP. Grapefruit and oranges are excellent snacks and ingredients. We love to add them to green salads and light sauces for fish and seafood. And we have a passion for grapefruit sorbet and granita. But grapefruit can be difficult to…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Custom Chocolate Bars

Customized chocolate bars are a fun and inexpensive way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with friends and family (plus teachers, doctors, hairdressers and anyone else on your list). Made by hand to your precise specifications, you can show your chocolatier skills by creating a signature chocolate bar for Valentine’s Day 2011. Or, make each bar with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sugar Snap Peas

Sugar snap peas (photo by Louis Hiemstra | IST).   Almost everyone loves peas, but few people serve snap peas—even though they’re available year-round. Sugar snap peas are a cross-breed of the English pea and the Asian snow pea, delivering the best traits of both. Completely edible like snow peas (but with a crunchier pod),…
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