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Crawfish 101: How to Boil, Peel, and Enjoy This Southern Delicacy

It's the season of the crawfish boil, where flavors are bold, hands get messy, and the fun is always served family-style.

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Tasting the Trend: Can Hearts of Palm Noodles Replace Pasta?

If you're anything like me, pasta has always been a go-to comfort food, it's easy, satisfying, and endlessly customizable. But as much as I love a big bowl of penne, I don’t always love the calories ...

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Holiday Mushroom & Leek Soup

For a lot of us, the holiday season evokes many memories. I love looking back at the traditions we had as a family when I was growing up, and it’s fun to recognize how they evolved into traditions ...

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Make the Most of Mushrooms

As someone who obsessively talks about, writes about, takes pictures of, and reads about food, I love asking people what foods they love and which ones they can’t stand. The number one answer I get ...

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Five Steps to Sautéing Mushrooms

“It’s not the taste, it’s more of a texture thing.” Maybe you’ve heard this or maybe you’re the one saying it, but it tends to be one of the major reasons people give when pleading their case on not ...

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Deep into Quiche

In the realm of quiche discussions, there are those who begin with a clever quip about what Real Men eat, and then there’s me, who is more bothered by the perpetual resurfacing of that maxim than the ...

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Take a Hike

There has been a slow uptick in the last 15 years or so in people interested in finding wild edibles in the landscape around them. From my perspective, this stems from the trend of featuring wild ...

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Love it or Hate it - Part 2

It’s time for another round of my favorite series: Love it or hate it! What foods do you love that no one else does? What foods do you have a deep distain for? This is a hot topic in all of my ...

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How To Clean Mushrooms

How to clean mushrooms is a common question we get in our cooking classes, and it's one which over the course of my career has become a more complicated one to answer. When I opened The Chopping ...

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For a Pescatarian Party, Make Salmon Coulibiac

When both of your siblings are vegetarians/pescatarians, it makes menu planning for holidays like Thanksgiving a challenge. The traditional turkey and ham don't work as entrée options when the whole ...

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