Reluctant Gourmet

How To Make a Traditional Pumpkin Pie Classic Pumpkin Pie Recipe Pumpkin pie is basically a custard pie. It contains dairy, and is thickened with eggs and sits in a wonderful, flaky pie crust like the one we just talked about a couple of days ago...

Yesterday I wrote a post called Pie Crust - Store Bought or Home Made that showed you how to make a scrumptious flaky pie crust at home and today I’m going to explain how to line a pie pan with it. ...

How to Make Pie Crust at Home My wife makes a fantastic apple pie. She is really good at it and can put together a perfect apple pie in about fifteen minutes. She uses commercial pie crust found in the refrigerator section of the supermarket, and feels no guilt about it at all...

Cooking Questions & Answers I get email from you guys all the time asking me questions about various cooking topics. The questions come from all over and I do my best to answer them. If I can’t give you a good response, I recruit the help of one of my many professional chef friends. ...

The 2009 Winner of the LG Electronics / Bon Appetit’s Life Tastes Good Competition Kristine Snyder Interview featuring her winning Mahi Mahi recipe. ...

You’ve all seen those directions in your roast chicken recipes: “Roast until Done.” Gee, thanks for all the help. The same directions can be found in recipes for grilled chicken, sauteed, pan fried or any other way there is to cook this favorite bird. Intu...

Fishmonger Andy with Wild Striped Bass While at the farmers market, I asked my friend Andy the fishmonger from Ardmore Seafood Market what was really fresh, and he pointed me to the whole wild striped sea bass...

Baking Versus Roasting Your recipe for roast loin of pork says to roast in a 350 degree F. oven. Your recipe for yellow butter cake says to bake in a 350 degree F. oven. For either recipe, you open the oven and put your food in. So, is there a difference between baking and roasting...

I started this website over a decade with this concept in mind, “You have to eat, so why not learn to cook and eat well?” I have really lived by that ever since, so when the wonderful people from LG contacted me about their “Taste of Something Better” cooking competition, where they celebra...

Formaggio La Tur - A Trio of Milks I love goat cheese but I also enjoy cow and sheep’s milk cheese and now I can have them all in this meritage of cheese called La Tur. ...

If you’re like most people, you spend plenty of time in your kitchen making meals for you and your family. And in most of my friend’s kitchens, including my own, there is a counter TV or access to a television in the attached family room. Ye...