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I got a sudden surge of ambition when I stumbled across some cute cookie cutters in the store the other day. My nephew's 5th birthday is Saturday and he is totally in love with cars and trains. So I just baked about 3 dozen cookies, now I need to decorate them. These are the same cookies I...

Subtitle: The art of eating well during a week-long power outage Hi. Remember me? Yeah I dropped off the grid for awhile, sorry about that. Very brief "Cliff Notes" on where I've been and why I haven't been posting (I've still been lurking, tho!). Hubby and I went on a super super strict...

Highly highly highly recommend this one.....it's a favorite in our house because fresh mango and fresh pineapple are so easy to get here. They'll be in season in a couple months, splurge and pick up some fresh mango/pineapple because it totally makes this dish worth it. Mine is a slight...

I really, really, really want to start planting some food-bearing plants. I buy so many fresh veggies it would be no trouble at all to start a compost bin (so I'm told), and there are some things I have trouble buying here that I would like to try and grow. Couple of problems, though. I kill...

Fresh ginger is readily available and very very cheap here. I use a lot of ginger in my stir fry dishes, but I've never cooked with fresh ginger. I've only ever used the powdered versions. Any suggestions for how to prepare it if I want to use it in a stir fry? How much should I use? What...

So most of you are familiar with my adventures in bread baking chronicled here: http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f154/just-plain-bread-69981.html Yesterday I made my 4th set of homemade loaves. I think the guys who advised me to refrigerate the yeast were right, however by the time that...

So it happened tonight...... It doesn't happen often. Most of the time when I try something new, experiment and alter recipes on the fly the results range from acceptable to outstanding. But every once in a while, like 2 times a year on average, I try something that just totally and...

Very brief backstory: For those of you who don't know, I went to work in Iraq 6.5 years ago and when I did so put all my things in storage in the US. When I left Iraq in 2009 I went straight to Kuwait for a new job, where I stayed for 8 months in a furnished apartment. In spite of the...

I absolutely love entertaining, I love dinner parties (even casual ones) just for the camaraderie. Living abroad I make a special effort to bring a bit of "home" to my fellow expats (which is why I threw a Christmas party in Kuwait in 2009) and to introduce a bit of my culture to my host...

I don't know about you guys and how you learned to cook. I learned from my mom, my dad, my brother....okay pretty much everybody in my family cooks in some fashion or another. It seems to be in the blood, because my grandmother (mom's side, never met her but I'm named for her) was famous...

Someone else just joined today who is looking for vegetarian recipe ideas and I have been looking for the same. I thought I'd start by asking the seasoned chefs here what their favorite vegetarian entrees are? I'd like to have some ideas for recipes to look up, because if you just look up...

I know this will sound like a stupid question but here goes! In my continuing quest to make more foods from scratch and have to buy less "processed" or prepared goods from the store, I want to have a go at making some bread. Nothing special, just ordinary ol' sandwich-type bread. I would...

I have several recipes that call for buttermilk which, much to my dismay, I cannot buy here in the Philippines. I know I can just use regular milk to make my recipe....but is there a way to replicate the "buttermilk flavor"? I've tried melting some butter and cutting back the amount of regular...

I ended up with a box of castor sugar when I sent someone to the store for powdered sugar awhile back and they bought this by mistake. So now that I have it....what's it used for?

I recently acquired my mother's recipe collection, which she has spent the last few years typing up and organizing electronically. It's a combination of old family favorites going back to great-great-grandmothers, recipes acquired from friends and old fashioned recipe swaps, and various and...

I moved to the Philippines about 7 months ago and now have daily access to a wide array of fresh tropical fruits. Most commonly available (year-round) are mangoes, bananas and pineapple. I can also get papaya, guava, dragon fruit, pomelo (a kind of sweet grapefruit for those who don't know)...

Good evening everybody. My name is Cory and I am an American living in the Philippines. This is our first Christmas in the Philippines and I got the grand idea of making a tray full of homemade classic Christmas goodies to give away as gifts to our neighbors and friends (along with a dandy...

Well I joined yesterday and managed to jump right into a pile of discussions without finding this forum, first. So please allow me to introduce myself. I am an American expat living and working in Kuwait, and I will be 33 next month. I have spent half my life overseas. My father was in the...

I cook rice a LOT. I am an American expat living in the Middle East and have spent most of the last 6 years in either the Middle East or Asia. Rice has become my primary starch. I use it often when I make various stir-fry dishes, naturally, but more often serve it as a side dish with a meat...

Does anyone have any good suggestions for cooking with tofu? I am trying to use more tofu as a meat substitute for several reasons. I've got several stir fry dishes that I really like and work well for me now (though I'll happily take suggestions for more!!). But apart from stir fry, how do...