Tag: cooking
Healthy cooking tips for the holiday season
Make holiday cooking healthier with smart swaps, mindful eating, safer food prep and simple planning while keeping festive flavors you love.
Spiders and salamanders were denizens of early fireplaces
Explore early Ohio frontier kitchens, where nonstop fires, ash piles and iron “spiders” and “salamanders” shaped daily cooking and pioneer life.
Giving thanks when salad is not a salad
A humorous look at Midwest “salad” culture, where holiday salads mean Jell-O, cool whip and canned fruit, not greens. Know the assignment this Thanksgiving.
Some trivia about trivets
Early Ohio cooks relied on iron trivets to control heat over open fires. These tools evolved from simple cookware to ornate cast-iron household staples.
Lard is love
A humorous look at modern food safety advice versus grandma’s timeless cooking traditions, from thawing turkeys to tasting raw cookie dough with no regrets.
Settlers worked up big appetites, but what did they put on...
Discover what early settlers really ate—and how Winslow Homer’s art shaped a myth about life on the American frontier.
Homeschooled children follow directions literally
Eirc Keller's crew tries their hand at cooking something special for Christmas as part of their homeschool curriculum.
Scratch that: Cooking 101
Kymberly Foster Seabolt offers advice to newbie and wanna-be cooks.
Having cake and eating it too
Eric Keller has become an expert at hiding his tracks when it comes to taste-testing his wife’s cake.
How to make paska bread
Liz Partsch provides a brief description of the history of Paska bread and step-by-step guide on how her Grandma Partsch makes Paska bread every Easter.
