I love this curry chicken salad. I made up this recipe 20 years ago after a friend of mine gave me a gift box of curry spices and have been making it ever since. It’s quite easy to make. The important thing to remember is that you need to “cook” the curry powder in the [...]
I was looking for a new idea for chicken when Ally recommended this recipe that she developed based on a recipe in Katie’s blog. I decided to take things that I liked from both recipes and ended up with one of the best chicken dishes I’ve made in a while. I’ll definitely make this one [...]
Seek truth. Ford the rivers. Scale the mountain. Query the Wise One. Whisper into his gnarly ear, and beseech him to reveal the secret of gastronomic Nirvana.
“My child,” he would intone, “Lo.” (He begins every sentence with Lo.) “You shall find ultimate bliss in the outstretched wings of fire-kissed poultry Cooking Light .”
What ‘da?
Does he [...]
Before I was assigned to cover “Top Chef†for TODAYshow.com, I was unfamiliar with the show besides knowing that many, many people are obsessed with it. It is a pop-culture phenomenon, after all. Yet it didn’t make sense to me. My reasoning was simple: How could I appreciate a cooking competition if I’m not there [...]
My mother was an Orthodox Jew, and the food she made at home was bland and overcooked, especially the vegetables. The long-broiled steaks and livers and pasty potatoes and mammaliga (corn meal mush) were no match for the crisp, tasty meat and bright green vegetables I knew from eating with Chinese folks at restaurants in [...]
These freaks of nature that are neither fish, worm nor eel have survived for 360 million years, have long snake-like bodies and a sucker mouth adorned with sharp teeth worthy of any Hollywood sci-fi movie. Think Alien.
Many of the parasites feed by sucking the blood of fish, attaching to their prey with a suction disk [...]
Regina Carelli and colleagues report experiments with rats in which they have mimicked the negative affect of cocaine addiction and even how it drives greater cocaine use. They said their animal model could enable better understanding of the emotional motivations of cocaine addiction and how to ameliorate them.
The researchers started with the well-known phenomenon that [...]
From office workers in Shanghai to laborers on Shenzhen construction sites, instant noodles are eaten with relish due to the low cost and convenience.
My husband and son love instant noodles. They eat them as breakfast and as a midnight snack, more than twice each week, says Yun, a 41-year-old housewife as she wandered down the [...]
