Guest Blogger on the Blog
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Make your (vegetable) bed!
A cruel New England winter forces novelist Liza Gyllenhaal to roast vegetables and dream of her summer garden in The Berkshires.
Eat Me in Manhattan: Kalustyan's unites nations with global delights
At its current Manhattan location since1944, Kalustyan’s is something akin to a global pantry, displaying some of the world’s most distinctive foods. Blogger Umit Celebi takes us on a tour.
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Presto! Turn your husband into a cook
Liza's husband had been vowing to learn to cook soup. This time, he finally did!
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Growing fruit trees for fun and profit
A childhood memory of pear trees leads Liza in new gardening directions. Pear preserves anyone?!
Surprise yourself with a pot of Greg's signature Chili
Over the years, former Florida food columnist Greg Melikov has perfected a smooth chili he's proud to call his own!
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Hush Puppy Corn Fritters
In a mad, improvised undertaking, Liza Gyllenhaal turns the last of summer's bounty into a delectable delight.
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Herbs worth a mint for summer cooking
Windowsill herb pots sprout into a full-fledged garden in The Berkshires.
Eat Me in Manhattan! Italian market offers food for body and soul
From Parmigiano Reggiano to Prosciutto di Parma, DiPalo's Fine Foods offers the best -- amazing gourmet Italian imports and first-rate conversation, too.
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Discovering your inner gardener
At its heart, gardening is the urge to add order and context to the landscape, to somehow harness and humanize the wild.
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: In praise of panko crumbs
Discovering the secrets of panko crumbs opens up a whole new world of recipes.
One man's rant: Give me the beef and hold the beating!
As school's Healthy Choices campaign brainwashes two young men, Dad wages a food fight on the home front.
Paris bistro sparks a lifelong affair with duck recipes
As duck breasts began to make an appearance in specialty butchers, Guest Blogger Liza Gyllenhaal started to discover many delicious, easy, and mostly very quick recipes for preparing them at home.
Eat Me in Manhattan: Tea Party!
Put politics aside and stage your own Tea Party, Turkish style. Guest Blogger Umit Celebi points the way!
Music matches the mood at Camille's in Key West
Florida restaurant's tunes send Debbie down memory's playlist.
Take a Tour of Moroccan Cuisine with Guest Blogger Nisrine Merzouki
From a tagine of beef and vegetables to brewats with safron chicken, Moroccan cuisine is distinct and delicious. Guest Blogger Nisrine Merzouki leads the way.
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Sinless Sorbets
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Guest Blogger Liza Gyllenhaal: Low-fat -- dare we even call them healthy -- sorbets elevate a lonely ice cream freezer to star status.
Eat Me in Manhattan! Umit Says DiPaola Turkey Sausage Transforms Dinner
Guest Blogger Umit Celebi says: It's made by way of an old family secret, and this turkey sausage from DiPaola Farms is simply stunning.
What are your best tricks for aiding an aging memory? Debbie does the Pyramid game!
Can't remember names? It's not just you! Brains in folks over 50 have weak neural connections that handle information. Or so says the research.
Sweet Pea and Tomato Cupcakes? Yum!
One day Guest Blogger Sylvia Regalado found a recipe, a weird recipe, one which said, “Bake me, Sylvia. Bake me.” Could she? Should she? You bet your Sweet Pea and Tomato Cupcakes!
The Kitchen Diva: Angela Medearis talks about Christmas food, faith and family
Guest Blogger Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva, writes about food, family and faith for the holidays.
Local Food and Local Knowledge: Best Christmas cookie on Earth is heaven sent
Guest Blogger Liza Gyllenhaal says: I was lucky — no, I think actually, blessed — to somehow stumble upon a recipe at the very start of my baking career in The Joy of Cooking for a bar cookie called Angel Slices.
Debbie grabs a bite of hair purgatory!
Anthony popped me in his chair, I looked in the mirror and asked what he might do if I wanted something different. Long hair anyone?
Holiday meals make essential memories: Guest Blogger Umit Celebi contemplates food as part of a lifelong story
Food plays the central role in the story of our basic survival. It is also an important supporting player in our life story. Never is that more apparent than the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the holiday itself.
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Dressing Green Beans Up for the Holidays
Whether combined with ginger and lemon, coaxed into a casserole or given a Spanish spin, beans are something Liza Gyllenhaal knows a thing or two about!
Eat Me in Manhattan! A pork tenderloin worth the trek
Umit's blog posts, called Eat Me in Manhattan, will tell you where to go in New York and what to cook. "I am most interested in helping my male brethren produce mouth-watering meals at home," he says.
Eat Me in Manhattan! Introducing our newest Guest Blogger Umit Celebi
We're thrilled to introduce our newest Guest Blog -- Eat Me in Manhattan -- by Umit Celebi. Come find out how one man shops and cooks in New York City!
What happens when the cashier gets to decide how old you are? Guest Blogger Debbie Moose finds out!
What happens when the supermarket cashier gets to decide how old you are? Guest Blogger Debbie Moose sounds off!
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: What a pickle!
Searching for the absolutely perfect pickle -- bread and butters, garlic pickles, half sour dills -- takes Liza Gyllenhaal on tasty journey.
Exactly what Is a curry? Guest Blogger Raghavan Iyer spills all!
In England and the rest of the world, “curry” is the catchall word for anything Indian that is mottled with hot spices, with or without a sauce. In Raghavan Iyer's India, curry just IS!
A break with the usual grocery routine makes Debbie a bit desperate!
Grocery shopping becomes an obsession when Guest Blogger Debbie Moose breaks her wrist!
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Cherry Tomatoes and Rainbow Chard
In Liza Gyllenhaal's garden, rainbow chard and cherry tomatoes pair up for an end-of-season feast.
Debbie Moose Munchies: Summer of the endless fig
Guest Blogger Debbie Moose is crazy for figs, and this summer, all of her figgy dreams come true.
Freeze fresh peaches in muffin tins to use all year
A bushel of peaches for only $15 turns into a frozen bonanza for one inventive cook.
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal: Pass the peas, please
Every stage of a pea’s life is pretty to look at — just as every part of the pea itself is delicious to eat. Guest Blogger Liza Gyllenhaal shares her favorite recipes and tricks for her backyard bounty of freshly picked peas.
Summer Entertaining on a Budget
Ellen Ferlazzo of Pleasanton, Calif., blogs on budget cooking and agreed to do a guest post for us about how she threw a casual, fun party for her daughter’s high school graduation spending roughly $280 for 50 guests, including decorations.
Garden chives transform chicken, salmon and more
Almost all the things Liza Gyllenhaal likes to cook with chives from her garden are simple and quick. Perhaps her favorite is chicken breasts stuffed with chevre, chives, and any other herbs you might have on hand. But there’s more…
Local Food and Local Knowledge with Liza Gyllenhaal
Please join us in welcoming our newest Guest Blogger Liza Gyllenhaal as she blogs about cooking what's fresh from her organic garden in the Berkshire mountains.
Debbie Says: You Grill Girl!
Guest Blogger Debbie Moose is fed up with the bla-bla on Father’s Day grilling. Estrogen deserves a place at the fire, too.
Make Greek Potato Salad and meet the neighbors!
Guest Blogger Debbie Moose is an expert: You can’t make just one serving of potato salad. If you love potato salad and have a small family, better get to know your neighbors.
As a teen, Jason needed cooking advice. Now he's the one giving it!
We first heard from Jason Gerling of New Hartford, N.Y., when he was 14 years old and needed some recipe advice. Now, a decade later, he's the one offering the advice. Online coupons anyone?
Meet Guest Blogger Debbie Moose
Cookbook author Debbie Moose believes you should try a bite of everything in life. And Debbie has been making us laugh about that – and lots of other stuff – for more than a decade. So naturally we were thrilled when Debbie agreed to share her thoughts, rants and raves as a Guest Blogger here on Kitchen Scoop from time to time.
Debbie Does The Food Network (Not!)
Why doesn't Debbie Moose have a show on The Food Network?
