Fast Easy Recipes

Recipe Exchange: February 1, 2012
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Cooking With Herbs: The Alice B. Toklas Recipe That Carole Greenwood Won’t Cook
[WARNING: Do not attempt this at home. Unless maybe you have a qualifying medical condition . If you do, please consult your doctor and/or lawyer as results may vary.]

Old standby soup a winter weather chaser
First it blew, then it snew and friz. And now look what's happening outside the window ... Must be time once again to bring back that treacherous-weather-survival specialty, the always popular cabbage patch soup.

Talent in kitchen turns into growing food business
As a teenager, Nadja Piatka was working at the diner her parents owned in Toronto when she noticed how popular her mother’s pierogi were with their customers.

Hot cereal add-ons
Think of this list as a working plan for mixing and matching ingredients in a saucepan of hot cereal — see the accompanying recipe — or for topping a steaming bowl.

Super Bowl Recipes: Bacon Wrapped Things & BBQ Sandwiches
In the interest of full disclosure, I don't cook much since I got married. So these are not my Super Bowl recipes. They belong to my wife, but not because of dated gender roles. I'm not detail-oriented. My wife graduated from the French Culinary Institute, which earned her the privilege of being verbally abused by a well-known Frenchman (for about $8 an hour). It made her a perfectionist. I take ...

Mediterranean bar to the rescue
Make fast family meals using olives, roasted tomatoes and more from the supermarket It's time to think of the roasted tomatoes, peppers and garlic, the olives and the marinated artichokes and mushrooms at your supermarket's Mediterranean bar as more than grab-and-go items for snacks or spur-of-the-moment parties.

Not your grandma's pie: Redefine America's favorite dessert in time for National Pie Day
Not many American food days have immediate recognition -- or attention. For good reason.

A Warm Bowl of Cereal? You Can Top That
Special to The Washington Post

Reader Exchange: 7-Up pops up in all sorts of recipes
It's right down to business today. Some will find this hard to believe, but I'm plum out of chatter at the moment.