We’ve got a new spin on a favorite dessert. Today’s banana upside-down coffee cake was inspired by the classic pineapple upside-down cake. Most of the nutritional enhancements we make to recipes ...

It sounds a bit upscale, but en papillote (pronounced ahn pa-pea-yawt) is actually a quick and easy way to cook delicate foods like fish. It literally means “in paper” or “in parchment.” This French ...

<p>Q: I have seen recipes that call for buttering or greasing a cake pan, then placing parchment paper on top and then buttering the parchment. What is the point of buttering the bottom of the pan?

While many recipes call for using either parchment paper or a silicone baking mat like a Silpat, the two aren't 100-percent interchangeable. Both use food-grade silicone to keep food from sticking to ...

My 450-pound dad had been in every diet known to man — Akins, Weight Watcher’s, The Cabbage Soup Diet, The Tapeworm Diet. When nothing worked his bosses at McCann Erickson ad agency sent him on a ...

Great cooking equipment – copper pots, high-tech gadgets, anything manufactured by European car companies – can set you back some financially. So now, while we’re waiting for Ben Bernanke to cook up ...