Posts tagged with ‘spices’

Who doesn’t love crispy oven roasted potatoes? I’ll bet you that even those who swear by the paleo diet probably think, “I miss me some crispy potatoes.” Even though I’m far from paleo (I love my legumes and dairy way too much), potatoes rarely make it into my meals. Diabetes runs in my family, and over the last 2 years [...]

I’m super excited to share this recently-created Mexican Meatballs recipe and use it as an example of how easy it can be to create your own recipes. Even if you’re not an experienced cook, you probably are an experienced eater and that’s the only qualification you need to develop recipes. Just start paying attention to what you like, why you [...]

Two related cooking challenges we constantly get asked to solve are: 1) I need more chicken recipes! and 2) How can I make chicken taste less bland? This recipe for Moroccan-Spiced Chicken with Carrots and Raisins happens to kill both these birds with one stone. It’s simple and budget-friendly enough for any weeknight dinner, but the Moroccan-inspired spice blend transforms [...]

A few weeks ago, I posted this on Cook Smarts’ Facebook wall: We’re reading “The Power of Habit.” What bad food / cooking habits do you want to break? One of our fans wrote, “Not experimenting more with spices.” We’re sure she’s not the only person hoping to break this habit, so I rounded up our tips on how to [...]

During my days as an in-home cooking instructor, I saw spice cabinets and drawers in every state: over-crowded, unorganized, filled with duplicates or unidentified containers, spices well past their shelf lives, or sometimes just non-existent. We all aspire to learn how to use spices and incorporate them into our cooking effectively and have them beautifully organized a la Container Store [...]