When your kids crave the comfort of home, what food do they ask for? Maybe it’s a steaming bowl of your hot chicken macaroni soup. Maybe it’s Dad’s grilled steak and corn. Or it could be Grandma’s chocolate chip cookies. We all crave certain dishes when we’re yearning to be comforted. More often than not, they’re food straight from home.
strong>Memories are associated with comfort food. A bowl of hot and sour soup can conjure images of the times spent at the family home in the province. A basket of blueberry muffins could remind one of the times she and her …read more

My ultimate, when I’m feeling sick comfort food is chicken noodle soup. I think it has to be true that there are healing properties in chicken broth. I know it always makes me feel better.
I’ve had some kind of ick for the last week or so, and haven’t felt much like cooking (or doing anything for that matter). My husband’s been great about grilling out most nights, but I was really hungry for some chicken noodle soup the other night. So I made a batch. It wasn’t exactly homemade, I didn’t feel like cooking the chicken, chopping it up, making …read more

I have been so consumed lately with The Good Life of the dog world and of course The Pet Set that I haven’t even had time for one of my own real passions: cooking.
Until I came across this recipe from one of my heros, Jacques Pepin: Do look up his Beef Burgundy recipe in the April issue of Food and Wine:
Jacques’s take on this classic:
 

For many Americans, the quintessential French stew is boeuf bourguignon—beef cooked in Burgundy red wine. The stew, featured regularly at my mother’s restaurant, was made from tougher, cheaper cuts of beef, which had to …read more