Breakfast After a Morning of Antiquing

By Lori Powell

Oh yes, another weekend… except this is the first time I ventured out to have some fun which did not include a stop at a Home Depot, Lowe’s or the hardware store.

Ohhh, the lovely search and find of special objects and lure of antique shops and garage sales! Unfortunately Pennsylvania has plenty of them to satisfy my obsession of finding treasures amongst other people’s castaways. And yes, find I did…some old copper pots….old silverware and some pictures for the walls.

I am a huge fan of “Antiques Road Show,” except I am never home when the darned program is airing. Like the other folks clasping their treasures on the show, I am convinced I have a Picasso amongst my finds, except I still haven’t figured out which one has disguised itself as just an ordinary Joe!

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Katie’s Super Easy Sunny Side Up

By Katie Barreira

Generally, I’m a pretty easy-going eater. But I’m a real stickler when it comes to eggs over easy. It’s a particularity comparable to my childhood aversion to fresh tomatoes, (as opposed to ketchup, a dietary staple) which I fiercely rejected, inspecting each leaf of lettuce on a plate of salad from which my mother had lovingly plucked the offending fruit and, upon spotting a cling-on seed, declared the dish to have been “slimed!”

Today, at 29 years old, I have a similarly infantile reaction to the mucus-like texture of an under-cooked egg white. Ironically, I am simply enamored of the rich and runny goodness of a barely cooked yolk that drips over bacon and sops into toast.

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Southeast Asian-inspired Stew Cooks up in a Hurry

By Sandy Hu

When I want dinner in a hurry, there's nothing like a quick, one-pot dish. Curried Chicken and Potato Stew cooks up in just 25 minutes and there are few dishes to wash afterwards.

Potatoes and chicken marry well with the sophisticated flavors of coconut milk, fresh ginger, garlic and cilantro -- bright seasonings inspired by the cuisines of Southeast Asia.

If you think of potatoes as a starch, think again. Potatoes are really a vegetable. They're an excellent source of vitamin C and a good source of potassium. A medium potato has just 110 calories and no fat.

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Non-stop to Frankfurt

By Katie Barreira 

For an authentic taste of German cuisine you could hop a direct flight from JFK to Frankfurt on Main or, simply stir up a batch of the city’s signature green sauce. Seasonal aromatics star in this fresh, creamy mixture traditionally composed of no less than seven spring herbs.

Hey Newbies!

Not only does this regional sauce bear the season’s characteristic color, its components provide green cooks the opportunity to get acquainted with a couple of key culinary techniques.

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Celebrating the New Year, Japanese Style

By Sandy Hu

For a Japanese-American kid growing up in Hawaii, there wasn’t a more exciting time than the New Year. Our holiday season was far from over after Christmas. New Year’s brought firecrackers and feasting.

On New Year’s Eve, we kids, dressed in our new Christmas bathrobes, were out on our porch all night, blasting firecrackers, ostensibly to chase away evil spirits. We did it for the sheer thrill, reveling in the bang and flash. The Camel brand produced smaller firecrackers for beginners; the Duck brand was twice the size, making a more substantial explosion. Our arsenal, also included cracker bombs, sparklers, roman candles and bottle rockets.

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