Cooking smart means more than perfectly poaching an egg. It also means maximizing your kitchen time and dollars. And mastering a basic beef stew. Beef stew has impeccable comfort-food credentials.

The picture of the founding editor of The New York Times' "Cooking," Sam Sifton's Picadillo, a Cuban "comfort food" stew using ground beef, looked sooooo good I just had to download the recipe and ...

This is a good old fashioned basic ‘stew’ recipe and can be varied according to what you have got in the fridge. Add root vegetables like swede, potatoes, celeriac, carrots and parsnips. The dumplings ...

One ingredient can turn everyday chicken and vegetables into a healthful Thai-style dinner that pops with flavour and panache You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you ...