Cook, Eat & Explore with Food Writer, Cooking Teacher & Cookbook Author, Nancie McDermott
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 ...
If you're looking for a fabulous, can-do, beautiful and luscious holiday dessert, Pumpkin Cheesecake is the answer. This recipe makes the best one I've ever had, right down to its Gingersnap-Pecan Crust! Sweet and yet tangy, simple and yet complex, familiar and yet endlessly variable, cheesecake ...
Tonight you can watch "A Chef's Life" Harvest Special, celebrating the Series Finale for this beloved PBS television show. Chef Vivian Howard welcomes us to her kitchen, restaurant (The Chef and the Farmer), and Eastern NC home to remember five fabulous seasons and toast the memories with friends ...
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