Cashie Evans

I typed about choosing the best ingredients for homemade pie crust and offered some tips on mixing those ingredients together so you end up with a flaky crust. Now, learn how to roll out the dough and keep it relaxed and flaky. …

There is perhaps no more common fear among amateur cooks and bakers than making a pie crust. Many people won’t even attempt it and rely solely upon ready-made refrigerated pie crusts found in the grocery store. But, truthfully, pie…

In the search for healthy snacks, one comfort food that’s tough to replace with a healthier version is chips. But while there aren’t many good alternatives in the grocery store, you can make healthier versions in your own kitchen.…

For a delicious and seasonal Halloween meal, it’s smart to select recipes that appeal to an adult’s palate while still hinting at Halloween spookiness. Begin by considering what foods are traditionally associated with autumn. Pumpkins,…

We all know we should eat healthy. What stops us? Sometimes we think we have to give up the best-tasting foods in order to do so. Simple, healthy gourmet food proves that theory wrong. Other times, we feel we don’t have the time or…

Do you waste time or energy in the kitchen by adhering to myths? Find out, as I examine some of cooking’s most prevalent urban legends. Searing Meat Helps Keep it Juicy You’ll often hear that searing meat seals in juices, but…

Cabbage is at its best during fall and spring’s cool weather. Excellent for long storage, versatile, tasty, and healthy, cabbage is a vegetable that ought to be a regular part of every diet. Try it today! Red Cabbage vs.…

Take a peak at many of Our Deer’s recipes – or recipes in any gourmet cookbook or website – and you may run across directions asking you to sweat. No, this doesn’t mean the chef needs to work up a sweat. "Sweating" is actually a cooking…

Tomatoes are one of the most-used and most versatile ingredients in the kitchen, making everything from the humble pizza to the most elaborate and scrumptious sauce. However, few people really even know what a decent tomato tastes like,…

As aspiring cooks explore the world of gourmet food, one of the terms they’re certain to run across is bouquet garni (boh-kay gar-nee). At its simplest, a bouquet garni is a bunch of herbs tied together and used to flavor the liquid of…