Cook, Eat & Explore with Food Writer, Cooking Teacher & Cookbook Author, Nancie McDermott
When you say "Comfort Food!" I say: Bread Pudding. Make mine New Orleans-style, because the Big Easy is the home of this simple Creole Bread Pudding recipe. How about we let the good times roll, right into your kitchen? Bread Pudding = Simple, Smart, Satisfying, and Sweet Bread pudding is a ...
Welcome to my home-made Mardi Gras celebration! King Cake helps the good times roll in New Orleans and all the Mardi Gras-celebrating regions. My King Cake recipe shows you bake up those good times and bring that colorful sweetness into your home kitchen! The City of New Orleans knows how to ...
Coconut custard pie brings old-time baking pleasure home and makes a simple, delicious dessert for friends and family, for guests, or for taking along to a potluck, a party, or an event at work or school. Easy-to-find ingredients, simple methods, everyday equipment: It's a fine everyday homemade ...
For busy-day cooking, or spur-of-the-moment simple satisfying suppers, fried rice is my go-to good-food-fast solution. For me, fried rice is as easy as making a sandwich! You may or may not get to that point in your kitchen journey, but even if you cook fried rice as an occasional item, you'll ...
Wintertime is baking season and this easy Pumpkin Caramel Poke Cake combines a luscious caramel, pillowy whipped cream, and crunchy pecans with a simple pumpkin sheet cake. Simple to make and a breeze to take along to potlucks or delight guests at home. I love the rich, sunny color of ...
Back in Taiwan for my umpteenth visit, with a mere week to savor the sights and sounds of an extraordinary city I love! Join me on a December stroll around Taiwan's amazing capital city: Taoyuan International Airport puts out a great big multi-lingual multi-colored welcome sign and people from ...
Here is a quick tour of all the Christmas Holiday Decorations I've been seeing as I travel around in China and Taiwan this December 2018! Traveling far from home in December isn't my usual M.O. I love being home during the holiday season to enjoy all the music, decorations and deliciousness ...
Hello from the ancient and also modern city of Xi'an, a fascinating 21st-century metropolis in north-central China's Shaanxi Province. This center of political power, culture, and commerce for millennia served as China's original capital city through 13 dynasties, long before Beijing came to ...
Hello from Shanghai on the northeastern coast of China. Still feasting my eyes and mind and everything else on this extraordinary and delicious adventure. Here's a quick note on our doings: Soup dumplings are a big thing back home now, and have been in China, and particularly Shanghai, for a ...
Hello from me to you, from my current location in the city of Shanghai, a big, bountiful and beautiful city on the Huangpo River in northeastern China. I arrived here on Monday evening, the third day of December 2018, traveling with my husband on his business trip. After a few days here, we will ...