When I'm stressed, I bake. Luckily, stress often kills my appetite, so instead of eating the results of my baking spree, I share them. Hmm, maybe it's not the act of baking that reduces stress, but ...

Black coffee. Preferably an espresso, cut with hot water. Perfection. I am not the audience for the crop of mocha lattes, candy cane cappuccinos and salted caramel dirty chais. However, offer me a ...

Variations of the cosmopolitan mix have been used around the world for hundreds of years. In the 1600s, colonizers from the Netherlands, who took control of the Spice Islands in what is now Indonesia, ...

When ranking six spice cake mixes, cookbook author and Sugar Blossom Bake Shop founder Lei Shisak gave this brand top marks ...

1. With a clean coffee grinder, mortar and pestle, or blender, grind everything together to a fine powder. Seal in a storage container and use as needed. Note: Use this mix in soups, tomato dishes, ...

Bold Cajun blends, Chinese five-spice powder, Caribbean jerk, garam masala garam masala from India, Middle Eastern baharat, Thai green curry paste -- each of these blends of spices and herbs has its ...

You don’t need an expensive new piece of equipment, or an obscure ingredient you have to hunt for. You just need a fresh way of preparing an old favorite. In "One Way," we’ll revisit classic ...

Her ritual was simple: At the beginning of every year, my mom would conduct an “audit” of her spice cabinet. She dumped small, nearly empty jars into one large, labeled container to create a “kitchen ...

This Easy and Quick Pumpkin Bread with Spice Cake Mix is a recipe I return to year after year. Every fall, as soon as the ...