Once-a-month cooking makes weeknights easier

By Judy Corbus Special to the Democrat -- When you're tired at the end of the day and fresh out of dinner ideas, wouldn't it be nice to have a month's worth of meals waiting for you in the freezer? With once-a-month cooking, you spend one day a month cooking and freezing meals for future use. The technique can be modified by preparing triple batches for a few weeks or spreading the cooking over ...

Minola enters dip-out market

Minola is set to enter a once uncharted territory in cooking oil marketing: the dip-out segment.

Honest Eats: Politics in the kitchen

About once a week in my house, the soapbox comes out and the eyes are rolled. As an intern with a sustainable food-focused nonprofit, I have trouble not bringing my work home with me, and that usually means I lecture one or both of my parents on the latest sin committed by the industrial farming industry (often known as “Big Ag”), or the major gossip-of-the-month within the restaurant world.

Euclid restaurant offers Hawaiian-influenced fried rice awakening

The quest for great fried rice has gone almost viral in Euclid, where Fried Rice Night is declared once each month at Beach Club Bistro. More than 50 pounds of rice was used to meet the demand in January, and for the Feb. 15 Fried Rice Night, even more is being ordered.

Iranians bemoan sanctions hardship as vote approaches

(Reuters) - Each day that he struggles to buy food for his family, vegetable seller Hasan Sharafi shoulders part of the burden of Iran's defiance of the West over its nuclear programme. He can hardly bear it. "Prices are going up every day, life is expensive. I buy chicken or meat once per month. I used to buy it twice per week," the father of four said in Iran's central city of Isfahan ...