Author: Lou

I made a squash soup for a dinner party a few winters ago that came out of the blender looking perfect and tasting like almost nothing. I’d salted it once, at the very end, the way I salted everything back then, and no amount of...

Missing an application deadline doesn’t mean your college dreams are on hold. Across the country, many quality institutions offer rolling admissions or extended deadlines, giving you the flexibility to apply when you’re ready....

You are halfway through a pot of soup and it is thin, watery, more like a broth than a bowl you would actually want to eat. Maybe you are out of cream. Maybe you are cooking dairy-free on purpose. Either way, if you want to...

I had a pot of green curry paste already blooming in oil when I opened the pantry and realized the coconut milk can I thought I had was actually cream of coconut, left over from a batch of pina coladas. Wrong product, wrong...

That bag of bonito flakes bought for one batch of dashi, then pushed to the back of the cabinet, doesn’t behave like most dried pantry staples. It looks shelf-stable, papery and dry, but it fades a lot faster than flour or dried...