Where do you turn for menu inspiration? Or a fresh twist on a tired recipe? Or for culinary daydreaming—when you just want to zone out, ogle beautiful food photos and lose yourself in other cooks’ gastronomic narratives? In addition to cookbooks and Google, I’m lucky to have a ... [Read More] [5 Comments. Please leave another.]
5 Ways Backpack Online Organizer Makes Grocery Shopping Faster and Easier
I have a love-hate relationship with technology. I love it when technology lives up to its promise of making life easier, fuller and more meaningful. But I hate it when it forces me to bend to its inhuman operating systems—eating up my precious time in the process. (For a ... [Read More] [1 Comment. Please leave another.]
10 Good Reasons to Start Cooking from Scratch
For seasoned home cooks, scratch-cooking comes easy. Having mastered culinary basics long ago, these cooks can manage the most complex recipes—or even cook without a script. This post isn’t for them. It’s for you. Are you a non-cooking foodie? You love great food. You ... [Read More] [28 Comments. Please leave another.]
Warning! Don’t Try This at Home: When NOT to Scratch Cook
“Fast frugal scratch cooking” is my credo at Copywriters’ Kitchen. For taste, health and cost-savings, nothing beats delicious home-cooked meals, snacks and baked goods. Most of the time. But the truth? There are limits to what you can—and should—cook at home. If kids ... [Read More] [12 Comments. Please leave another.]
The Secret to Finding Time for Family Meals
You have to want it. Bad. In order to make time for regular family meals, you have to make them a priority. We live in trying times. You’re busy, worried and preoccupied. Maybe you’re in such a state of high anxiety—over the economy, your job, your non-existent 401(k)—the ... [Read More] [4 Comments. Please leave another.]
