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No Knead Bread Variations There are countless ways that making food from scratch offers a huge savings over buying the pre-packaged version in the grocery store. One of the best examples is Roasting Whole Chickens and Making Chicken Stock. A very close second would be baking your own bread. It’s no secret that we’re crazy about Jim Lahey’s No Knead Bread around here. This big, beautiful loaf can be made in your own kitchen for less than $1 a loaf. You would easily be paying five times that in a bakery or grocery store for something of similar size and quality....

Love Baking My first baking experience was making biscuits with my grandmother, standing on a chair all of three years old. Before the home was air-conditioned an oscillating fan constantly hummed, providing a soothing base track that was enhanced with the sizzling sounds of chicken frying, the tinny rattle of steam escaping a pot, or the whirl of an electric mixer beating batter for cake. There was always cake. When making those prophetic biscuits, my grandmother would punch out the dough and place the soft rounds on her well-worn baking sheet. We’d roll out the scraps and she’d let me...

Delicious Easter Lamb and Ham from Celebrity Chef Melissa Cookston Whether your tradition is to serve lamb or ham on Easter Sunday, Celebrity Chef Melissa Cookston has delicious dinner inspiration for your Easter or springtime get-together! Taken from Cookston’s cookbook, “Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room,” the below award-winning recipe for smoke-grilled rack of lamb and jalapeno peach glazed ham are great Easter and springtime recipes that will impress friends and family! “I believe the best flavors can be achieved by setting up a 2-zone grill and giving the lamb just a little bit of smoke flavor before finishing it off...

Have an Instant Pot pressure cooker? If you’ve crossed over into Instant Pot heaven, you likely know what a lifesaver this appliance is on busy nights. I’ve had mine for a few years now and it’s been so fun trying new and exciting Instant Pot hacks with it! Even though it can take the Instant Pot about 15 minutes to come to pressure before cook times start, I personally enjoy the hands-off cooking experience the Instant Pot provides, along with the time-saving aspect of most ideas. Today I’ll be sharing some fun tricks and tips you may not have known...

This month Jane from Always Ravenous hosted the Wine Pairing Weekend bloggers for a fun look at California food and wine pairings. She's called the theme: Tasting California: Cookbook Tour paired with California Wines. Initially she wanted us to work with What’s Gaby Cooking: Eat What You Want: 125 Recipes for Real Life by Gaby Dalkin, but the book isn't released until next month; in any case, you can read Jane's invitation post to the #WinePW bloggers: here. My official #WinePW event post went live late last week - Savory Dutch Baby, Schramsberg Mirabelle Brut Rosé, and a Few Other California Favorites - but I decided...