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Happy Holidays Everyone! Just wondering here what you guys are thinking about this latest news on chicken contamination? Apparently, a recent study/inspection determined that 83% of roasting chicken is processed under very unsanitary conditions and things like E.coli are prominent. Personally...

While at my hairdresser's this morning, I mentioned that my husband had harvested 87 lbs. of sweet potatoes last week, so we will be eating them very frequently now. She asked me if I knew that sweet potatoes could be frozen. I had never heard of doing that and she said to just scrub them, bake...

Has anyone tried this latest item being heavily advertised on TV, called Pasta Express? It's a cylindar type container with a lid. They claim you can "cook" pasta, asparagus, etc. in it just by pouring boiling water into the container over the ingredients (no other heat source needed). It seems...

Happy Holidays everyone. My question is whether it is necessary to use unsalted butter for cookies (as often mentioned on Food Network shows) vs. using regular salted butter. None of my cookbooks say that it is necessary to use unsalted butter and I don't keep it in the house, but they will go...

Hi - Yesterday, my husband harvested about 150 lbs. of lovely sweet potatoes and I have just become aware of "sweet potato bread". I was thinking that this would be a great way to use some lbs. of these potatoes, however, I have looked through nine of my favorite cookbooks and could find no...

We have absolutely tons of banana peppers and have been harvesting them for several weeks now. Up to this point, I have just been cleaning, cutting up, and freezing them in Hefty freezer bags. I was thinking that perhaps I could make them into pepperoncini (not sure of spelling), but have been...

Hope someone here can help me with this. I don't know what this concoction is called so, therefore, can't figure out how to make it. It's a side dish often brought along for pot luck type meals here in DE, but not something I've had previously in NJ. I like it quite a bit and, since it's a...

I have had a wonderful set of Henkels carbon steel knives for years and years. I really like using them, but they dull very quickly and I'm always having to bug my husband to sharpen them. As you all know it's quite difficult to use a dull knife. Anyhow, I've been thinking that perhaps an...

Okay, our tomatoes are just now beginning to ripen enough to harvest, however, they look horrible, so bad we feel like pulling them all out and just giving up on them for this season.:sad: The plants themselves look wonderful, as they have from the start. They are huge and full of tomatoes...

Well, I wish to pickle some beets, as my husband likes beets, which are not one of my favorite veggies, but I do like pickled things, so have gotten the idea to try doing this. I have looked through three of my favorite cookbooks and the recipes vary greatly on vinegar/sugar quantities, type of...

Hi everyone. Well, as all you gardeners probably know, it's now that time when the zucchini is harvesting in abundance. I'm wondering if zucchini can be stuffed, like bell peppers and eggplant can be stuffed. If any of you have tried this and have a TNT recipe, I would appreciate it very much...

Asparagus is beginning to come in now at our neck in the woods, so we stopped at a farm stand yesterday and picked up a pound. While we were waiting to pay, the cashier was explaining to another customer that she needed to soak the fresh asparagus for about 10 min. in hot water. This is so that...

I watch Food Network all the time whenever I'm in the kitchen and on all the shows, when they are making something with fresh mushrooms, they always say not to wash them, but just brush them off before cooking. They claim that washing them will cause them to absorb too much moisture, as they are...

I have really gotten into cooking with shallots and have suggested to my husband that he grow them in our garden for us. We are trying garlic that we planted last fall (a first for that and hope for success) and have also grown green onions, but never shallots. Have any of you tried this and how...

Hi - Our son, for Christmas, had two logs about 12"-14" long, shipped to us from a mushroom growing place. They are Shiitake mushrooms. Well, after following all the directions, we finally have shiitake mushrooms coming out of these two logs. It's quite a hoot watching how quickly they grow day...

Hi - I posted a similar question in the general questions and chat section, but thought I might get add'l responses in this area. To summarize, I would like to get a thermal coffee maker. I have heard from the other site that Krups and Bunn are both very good, however, as well as being good...

I hadn't done any "real" baking in years but, as I'm now retired and have the time, I decided to bake up lots and lots of batches of Christmas cookies just prior to the holidays. Since the cooking shows almost always state that it's a good idea to sift flour when baking, I purchased a simple...

I had told my husband I would like a thermal carafe coffee maker for Christmas. Nothing wrong with the glass carafe one we had, just liked the look of the thermal type. Anyhow, he gave me a beautiful looking Mr. Coffee brand thermal coffee maker. The thing was horrible :!: It leaked all over the...

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. :D In our previous home, I had a gas range/oven/broiler. Since moving, I now have all electric appliances. I am aware of the necessity to preheat when using the oven, but is it necessary to preheat when using the electric broiler? With gas, I never did...