Posts tagged with ‘pasta’

This peanut-sesame noodles and chicken / tofu satays recipe is sure to be a crowd pleaser. I know because I’ve cooked it for 50 more than once. During my senior year of college, I lived in a co-op where we all took turns cooking dinner for the house. One of my favorite parts of the experience was creating a menu [...]

I was out of town with friends this weekend, and we got onto one of my favorite topics of conversation: “What would you eat all the time in a consequence free world?” I eagerly shouted, “Macaroni and cheese!” While there is definitely a long list of other answers to this question, macaroni and cheese ranks high. Kraft’s blue box, Annie’s [...]

Pasta is probably the first dish that everyone learns to cook. Turning an orange powdered packet into mac ‘n cheese or combining boxed pasta with a jar of tomato sauce is how most lose their cooking v-card. While some graduate from the boxes and jars to making homemade sauce or pasta from scratch, many prefer to stick to the basics. Regardless of [...]

We are so excited to announce that we launched our weekly meal planning newsletter last week. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a free email that comes out every Thursday. Subscribers receive a weekly meal plan, which we pack with our signature smarts, delivered right to their inbox. It’s basically like getting a mini-cooking lesson every week for free (how [...]

This is now officially “Herb Week” on the CS blog. On Wednesday, we showed you how to best store herbs for longest shelf life, and before that we showed you how to make a quick herb sauce that can flavor-dazzle (can I trademark that phrase?) dozens and dozens of dishes. Today we’re going to show you two different ways to utilize [...]