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Top 5 Easy to Pick Up Picnic Foods

When the weather is nice, I always like to head outside and eat my meals. Whether I am sitting in the grass or on a bench in the park, or sitting on a beach blanket poolside, having a picnic is one of my favorite perks to the summer. Unfortunately, some foods just don't work logistically when trans ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Shrimp Tostadas, Steak Taquitos, Wicked Philly Cheese Steaks and More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

Cheap and Cheerful: Three Meals for Two People from One Rotisserie Chicken

"Cheap and cheerful" is a phrase I picked up while traveling in northern England used to refer to a quick, inexpensive and tasty meal. I immediately pocked the phrase, loving the connotation that cheap meals don't have to be depressingly awful (i.e., most fast food and frozen dinners). One of my fa ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Pork Meatball Banh Mi, Cauliflower Fried Rice and More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

10 Ways to Make Ordinary Deviled Eggs Extraordinary

Each Easter, my family and I dye hard-boiled eggs with the standard grocery store dying kit. My mom then hides them around the house for our Easter egg scavenger hunt/overly competitive holiday tradition on Easter morning. After we all run around the house in hopes of being the Easter egg hunt cham ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Loaded Chili Dogs & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

All The Luxury, Half the Price: A Romantic Valentine's Day Dinner for Two

Romance is in the air...and in my kitchen. My fiancé and I are skipping the stuffy Valentine's Day steakhouse dinner in favor of an at-home meal filled just as much luxury. By using lobster tails in a decadent macaroni and cheese and serving strawberries with a homemade champagne vinaigrette, we'll ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Veggie Stuffed Stromboli & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Baked Potato Soup (Lightened) & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week -- my weekly mea ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Butternut Squash Lasagna & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Latkes, Matzoh Ball Soup and More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week: my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Eggplant Gratin & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Weeknight Chili & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Pan-Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Turkey 'P'LTs & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Apple, Bacon, & Onion Flatbread More!

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Seared Skirt Steak, Sweet Potato Skins & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Honey BBQ Chicken & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Gourmet Grilled Cheese & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week -- my weekly meal ... More >>

Do It Yourself

Top five condiments to make at home.

What's Cooking This Week? Chipotle Cheddar Burgers, Watermelon Feta Salad & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

Top 10 Octopus Dishes in Houston

Octopus. Regardless of how it's prepared, I generally love eating the squirmy, tentacled creatures. A great, low-fat seafood option, octopus has this wonderfully distinctive texture. It's also light and fun to eat -- the perfect summertime dish. Our city's chefs must feel the same way I do, because ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Making the Most Out of Kimchi

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Avocado, Tomato & Corn Salad, Grilled Lemon Chicken & More

I love homemade meals with my fiancé, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't have a game plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I HATE wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly ... More >>

Salade Niçoise Recipe (and Bandol Rosé Porn)

When it comes to making a great salade niçoise, it's all about the quality of the ingredients. But that doesn't mean that you need to make a special trip to Whole Foods Market just to make this humble summer dish. In fact, I make my niçcoise using ingredients I buy at H-E-B (except the extra-virgi ... More >>

I Don't Like Sandra Lee, Except For When I Do, PLUS! Three Semi-Homemade Things I Made Up

Not to get all Sam Brown-on-Guy Fieri on you guys, but Sandra Lee bugs me a little. In the past, she did not bug me -- in fact, my first attempts in the kitchen were prompted at least in part by her recipes. (I didn't start cooking until I was 30. Seriously.) I found her "semi-homemade" concept of ... More >>

Top 5 Ways to Use That Leftover Ham

Easter is lovely. Brunch, family and friends, warmth, love, cocktails, and ham...lots of freaking ham. Every year, no matter how many people join in on brunch, we can't seem to finish off the baked ham. But alas, no worries! Leftover ham is fantastic. I have a number of go-to uses leftover ham, and ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week?

Easter was wonderful (as were the week of home cooked meals I enjoyed leading up to the celebration). One of my favorite parts about Easter are the leftovers, or remaking the leftovers. So I'm using up some leftover ham and making some other Spring treats. Here's what I'm making: Scrambled Eggs w ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week?

Last week was filled with satisfying, healthy meals starting with a Marinated Sea Bass and ending with a fantastic Grilled Eggplant Flatbread. Now that Valentine's Day is here, I'll be wooing my lover with a week full of crave-worthy bites, including a special romantic dinner for two. Here's what I ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 3: Kevin Naderi of Roost - The Tasting

We've been chatting with Roost's chef/owner Kevin Naderi the last couple of days, learning how he found and opened his restaurant in two months flat, and about the intricacies of his cuisine, which, in addition to being farm-to-table, contain little touches of Persian and Asian flavors. It's been ... More >>

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Our 100 favorite dishes in Houston.

What's Cooking This Week?

Photo by clairityTrying to stuff myself fuller than the bird.​Woo! Thanksgiving is almost here. I've been cooking a bit lighter in preparation, and I will continue to do so all the way up to the day when I will stuff myself fuller than the bird itself. Since I'll be cooking all day on Thursday ... More >>

Grocery Guide: Japanese Mayo

I loathed mayonnaise for an entire childhood, but was mistaken. Miracle Whip was the vile family culprit. No great loss, as there's not a lot of kid food that requires mayonnaise anyway. As an adult, I was still wary of any jar of white stuff with Kraft on the label, so I chose Hellman's. It woul ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week?

I can't believe it's October already. Since I've been pretending it's fall with my menus but it's really not, the lineup this week will be a nice mesh of both summer and fall recipes. With my picnic oven fried chicken and coleslaw and my brown butter pumpkin ravioli, you won't know what season it is ... More >>

What's Cooking Next Week?

Lauren ViggianoOven-baked fish tacos with homemade guacamole.​Mmm, last week's menu plan hit the spot, and we're looking forward to a fabulous long weekend followed by another week of easy cooking. Since it is a long weekend, and long weekends mean we can drink more, you may want to add a drun ... More >>

Mezze in the Montrose

At Byzantio, sit back with a drink, enjoy the good food and ignore the uneven service.

Ingredient of the Week: Balsamic Vinegar

Lexnger​To continue my Italian kick, this week, I present balsamic vinegar, which you can combine with past featured ingredients such as the roma tomato and Genovese basil to make a refreshing pasta salad for those summer picnics and barbecues. What is it? From Italy, balsamic vinegar was or ... More >>

Racing Rachael: Endless Summer

Carrie Applegate Jaeger​Nothing says summer better than some hundred degree weather, a nice cold beer, and a hot dog, right? Now, generally, I'm not a hot dog eater, but every year I smell a wiener on the grill and I chow down a dog or two. I don't usually love it, but it's such a quintessen ... More >>

Racing Rachael: Turbo Classics Meal

Carrie Applegate Jaeger​Rachael Ray makes whipping up a meal in 30 minutes look like a breeze, but we all know that there's a lot of behind-the-scenes work going on. Last week it took me, sans television magic, 47 minutes to make one of her meals. How will I do this week? The food: Garli ... More >>

Yoga Fuel: Cucumber Salad at Nit Noi

​After reading Geri's "Top 5 Vegetarian-Friendly Restaurants" -- and after a particularly heinous week full of cheese, meat, booze and refined carbs -- I have been anxious to get my veggie on. Out and about meeting with clients and running errands, I found myself disembarking the light rail ... More >>

I'm Going On a Picnic and Bringing...

​If you didn't spend the entire weekend outside, you are doing it wrong. I spent my Sunday at Hermann Park with a good book and a picnic for some cheap, outdoorsy fun. When picnicking, I usually make my own sandwiches because I'm oddly picky about toppings and hate an overloaded sandwich. And ... More >>

A Disastrous Brunch at Tiny Boxwood's

Maybe I should have stuck with the pastries.​It was the resounding statement from all four of my friends as we left Tiny Boxwood's at 11:30 a.m. this past Sunday morning: "What on earth do people see in this place?" "Maybe you have to be rich to appreciate it," laughed one of my girlfriends. ... More >>

Good Fish Friday: Ensalada de Bacaloa con Papas y Huevos

​According to my Cuban family, Easter dinner was not a particularly memorable event. They might get together and share a meal that Sunday, but there were no must-have Easter dishes. But Good Friday was a different story. Meat was not to be consumed on Fridays, so an alternate protein was subst ... More >>

10 Deceptively Easy Dishes

​Boeuf bourguignon. Coq au vin. Molten chocolate cake. Fancy-sounding dishes for fancy-sounding meals, right? Whether you're impressing a date or an entire dinner party, there are certain items you can serve that will have the room applauding your culinary skills -- and have you taking it easy ... More >>

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The Sam Houston Hotel unites shrimp curry, king salmon with Moroccan spices, and mac 'n' cheese

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Exotic Hong Kong-style seafood inside the Loop

Thanks for Nothing

The Chronicle's annual parade of prepackaged Thanksgiving recipes needs to be canned

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